Word: generalissimo
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...more than half a century, Beijing has branded Chiang Kai-shek, the Generalissimo who ruled China for two decades, as an enemy of the people, heading a feudal, despotic regime that was swept away by the tide of historical inevitability in the communist victory of 1949. But now, 28 years after his death in Taiwan, the administration he headed on the mainland seems strangely familiar and relevant to the future of the world's most populous nation...
...parallels between the first decade of nationalist rule and the China of today are striking. So much so that the question arises of whether the leadership in Beijing can avoid the pitfalls that seriously weakened the Generalissimo's regime before its eight-year war with Japan began in 1937, and before the subsequent civil war with the communists dealt it a death blow...
...There are, of course, substantial differences between Chiang's regime and the current central government. Today's China has modernized to a much greater extent than during what is known as the "Nanjing Decade," named for the city the Generalissimo made his capital. Beijing's rule is actually more national than was Chiang's. Nor is there an equivalent of the Communist Party building up its strength for the eventual fight to the death...
ANCHOR: I see you’re standing next to one of the foot-soldiers of the protest movement, actually the Generalissimo herself, Martha Burk...
Just outside, in Tiananmen Square, 300,000 people squinted through a yellow haze of soot to see the man who, after two decades of fighting, had routed the American-backed forces of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. As Mao waited, Guo dispatched a comrade to find a piece of red satin and write "Chairman" upon it in gold. That crisis averted, Mao stood on the rostrum above a massive portrait of himself and announced in his peasant brogue, "The central government of the People's Republic of China is established!" "Long live Chairman Mao!" answered the crowd, which began cheering soldiers...