No, there were patriots on both sides. KMT did most of the fighting because their territories were targeted.
You quote an American biography of Chiang. Of course, his view would be from the American perspective.
I do not agree that the CCP did NO fighting at all against the Japanese. Earlier, you wrote the CCP fought one battle against the Japanese. So now how could you say it did little to no fighting?
i mentioned the brave actions of Warlord Ma Gufang earlier. in Sichuan, Warlord Liu Xiang conscripted large number of his people, and he left Sichuan with his troops to join the the 9th War District battles ( Hubei ). Warlord Liu Xiang could have wayang too. the Japanese had not reached his Sichuan area. if Liu chose not to fight. it was unlikely that Chiang Kai Shek can punish him. but Liu Xiang was a Chinese patriot unlike the selfish cowardly CCP leaders who only thought of their personal and party interests.
the Japanese didn’t target CCP territories so CCP didn’t fight Japanese was not a valid excuse for the CCP little to no fighting during the war. the CCP troops could have taken offensive military actions against the Japanese. but they didn’t do it. CCP decision to literally sit out the war was also a betrayal action to the Chinese people.
they fought very little. they didn’t fight at all for long periods too. – little to no fighting.
Yes. Did I ever deny that the KMT fought the Japanese? Chiang was in power. He had to protect his kingdom. If it were Mao in power, he would also want to fight the Japanese to protect his own kingdom. Do not be so naive as to think that these leaders were democrat or socialist. Both of them wanted to be emperors. The actions of both men after the war bore witness to this.
your boss praised you for your great contributions to the company. at the some time, he kept mentioning that you are only doing it because of your salary. yes. it is of course true that you are working for the company to earn your salary. but it is needless for the boss to keep mentioning it. what matters is your great contributions for the company. same logic. Generalissimo Chiang did a great service to China during WW2. it was needless to mention that he did it to protect his kingdom.
actions of both men after the war ?
whether Chiang was sincere or not to form a coalition government with Mao’s CCP was not the crux issue. the records showed that Chiang agreed to nearly all of Mao’s conditions. the deal was on the table. ready for the CCP anytime. Mao could have accepted it and the civil war would end . Mao chose the battlefield to settle the conflict.
Okay, okay, everything depended on circumstances. Japan might never have attacked China. It might never had committed the Rape of Nanjing. Right.
I do not know why you keep harping the collusion between Soviet and CCP. They are both communists. Of course, they would collude. What's the problem with that?
Provocation is not equal to instigation. Having a motive does not mean a crime is committed.
collusion - secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy to cheat or deceive others. collusion is not collaboration.
it is somewhat ok for the Chinese Communist Party and Members to be aligned to Comintern. that was because Comintern was an international organization even though it was controlled by Moscow. but CCP members being agents of Russian GRU were completely unacceptable. GRU was the military intelligence bureau of the Russian Ministry of Defense. i never read of any KMT members in the political and military organization who were also members of the US CIA in that period. if i am an agent of the British Secret Service, Singapore ISD would arrest me immediately. that was one key reason why the Kuomintang had to destroy the CCP.
why were some CCP members working for a foreign country, Soviet intelligence agency ? what were the CCP GRU agents agendas and objectives in China ? what goals were they trying to achieve for Moscow ? CCP founder Li Dazhou recruited 100+ GRU agents in the 1920s. Li was arrested and executed later by Manchurian Warlord Zhang Zuolin for charges of Russian collusion.
i believe that spying for a foreign power against your country should be considered a treachery act, even in 1920s China. right?
the GRU stuffs are too complicated for me to explain. i cannot fully understand it. there are many books that told stories of Russian GRU, how its agents conducted successful espionage and sabotage operations in China, Japan, Europe and the United States. the GRU skillful works altered international affairs both in East and West during the 1930s. China war with Japan and Britain war with Germany were a result of it.
i will cite some incidents later to prove that the CCP tried to put the thoughts of provoking the war into action.
Perhaps according to you, the CCP should surrender to the KMT so that the KMT could deter the Japanese from starting a war? Sure that would be nice. But given the brutalities committed in the KMT-CCP war, we know this was not possible. Chiang Kai Shek was just as cruel as Mao. Many Commies tortured to death. Zhou's wife was beaten so severely that she couldn't conceive anymore. Chiang executed Yang Hucheng, his wife and young son (a child!) for his role in the Xi'an incident. He also killed tens of thousands of civilians in Taiwan.
Now, I have never suggested that Mao or CCP were the good guys. In fact, they were evil and did a lot of evil to the Chinese people. But ironic as it is, evil tyrants like Mao (or Hitler, Stalin, etc) were usually very "patriotic" because they would protect their kingdom and stand up to foreigners. The CCP would never want to give an inch of China to Japan. Mao successfully fought the Korean and Indian wars. For all his faults and evilness, Mao did keep China whole. If China were a US backed liberal democracy, I seriously doubt the US would allow it to remain so big.
Chiang Kai Shek’s cruelty was somewhat exaggerated. most of Chiang’s misdeeds were quite exaggerated too. plenty of Communist and American lies, and distortion of facts too.
Stalin was 100% Russian patriot. Mao Zedong was a traitor to the Chinese people before 1949. it was a Chinese tragedy that the CCP founding fathers had sold their souls to the Russian during that period of history.
but i shall say something to defend Mao for once. regarding the Chungking peace talks after WW2, if I was Mao, i also will not accept it. simply said. too much blood had been shedded between KMT and CCP. too many promises had been broken. it was impossible for Chiang and Mao to trust each other ever again.
whoever wrote the directives of the Marshall Mission must be a Russian spy or an idiot. if the CCP agreed to the coalition agreement, they would be surrendering into the government, putting themselves at the mercy of the Nationalists. Mao would be a dumbass or need the heart of a Saint to fully trust Chiang and form a unified government. it was more likely that, after Chiang got all the American aid as a result of the deal, he would purge the Chinese Communists again.
