Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chiang Kai-shek's demand that the Communists "withdraw from areas where they threaten peace and obstruct communications," the Yenan Communist radio retorted: "What Chiang means, in a nutshell, is 'Countrymen, prepare for slaughter; it is all for your own good.'" The Communist answer: a "mobilization" call (for an army of 1,000,000 regulars, 2,000,000 guerrillas) and announcement of a "provisional supreme administration for democratic [Communist] Manchuria...
Deep in Communist territory to the north, 24,000 Nationalist troops held out in the ancient fortress town of Tatung (now an important rail junction) against a month-long siege by 80,000 Communists. In Jehol, Communists said that Chiang Kai-shek was massing for a drive against Chengteh...
...coalition was merely a dream of men of good will, the only alternative was to try to pry the Reds off China's lifelines. Nanking had few illusions about that job. U.S. military observers had repeatedly told Chiang Kai-shek and his generals that the odds were heavily against a clean-cut Government victory. But responsible Nanking leaders (not merely reactionaries) saw no alternatives, except 1) continued stalemate accompanied by economic stagnation and further loss of popular support, or 2) coalition, which to them really meant postponing the war until the Reds were in a stronger position...
...Chiang decided on an all-out or (more likely) a limited civil war, it would be because he and his closest advisers knew a divided China could not endure...
...Destiny of China, by Chiang Kaishek...