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torn between making a Team Fortress joke or making an Advance Wars joke
Jay Graber is the CEO not the owner and it was named Bluesky before she was involved. There is no need to invent false associations, Bluesky can be easily criticized and dismissed on it’s fundamental problems which is that it’s a centralized system controlled by cryptobros masquerading as a decentralized federated one.
KMT as ‘far-right political party’ puts an unsavory shine on the CPC, there’s a KMT in the People’s Congress lol. Chiang Kai-Shek had an iron fist on the right-nationalist KMT but afaik the CPC still eulogizes KMT figures, especially Sun Yat Sen. not so simple as the interwar germans having a training-armament programme with the nationalists… which the soviets had too
It makes sense they support the parts of the KMT who fought in WW2 against Japan, considering the amount of fighting that was done. AFAIK Mao focused on getting his forces into a position where they could wage guerilla warfare and let the KMT do most of the heavy lifting. This way, he could let rightwing infighting run its course while getting communist troops experience so they could be ready to fight whichever side came out on top.
The KMT did most of the heavy lifting because they governed almost the entire country while the CPC controlled a single, very poor province.
The CPC also had a lot of cells all over Manchuria that were just waiting for the perfect moment to strike, sometimes seizing military bases with weapons as simple as spears.
For sure, they were very active during the war, both covertly as you say, and more directly through the 8th Route Army.
there’s a KMT in the People’s Congress
First time I read about this was confused. Where can I learn more about Chinese politics other than natopedia?
They were an anti-Chiang faction that split during the late civil war and declared support for the CPC. They still exist on the mainland until this day.
There was also the left-right split before the war with Japan; after Sun Yatsen’s death there were rival KMT governments with the rightists led by Chiang in Nanjing and a leftist government in Wuhan led by Wang Jingwei, though the latter folded and the party reunited until Wang became a traitor during the war and sided with Japan.
12·12 hours agoleftist government led by Wang Jingwei
Wang became a traitor during the war and sided with Japan
Wild shit huh?
So Bluesky is about to eat shit?
Wait was the KMT really sponsored by the nazis? Where can I read more about this?
It’s worth noting that, depending on the specific timeframe you’re looking at, the KMT was not a cohesive whole and more of a very mixed bag united front against the Qing + (other) warlords + the Japanese + etc. It’s essentially what would have happened if Russia went through the February revolution and never had the follow-up October revolution and somehow the White government had survived past a year or two: a complete mess of ideologically incompatible bickering factions who haven’t splintered or backstabbed each other yet.
KMT troops were trained by Germans, and received economic aid to barely cling on to power against warlords and bandits in the 30’s.
However, Third Reich aid to the KMT government stopped in 1937 after the Japanese invasion and all relations ceased between Nazi Germany and Nationalist China by 1941.
You can read a NATOpedia summary here
