Word: koumintang
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...distinction is very useful. Consider the United States, the Soviet Union and the quarrels, crises, and wars of the Third World. These "hot-beds" (the Russian word connotes ember waiting to flare into flame) have drawn in the superpowers since 1946, when the United States armed the Koumintang in China against its internal communist enemies. Periodically, as with the Korean war, local quarrels threaten to escalate to world wars. Today Soviet and American military planners share the view that once the superpowers become involved war will spread, and they see the explosive politics around the Persian Gulf as the most...
...believed in secular Manchester liberalism, yet took Party control because he thought that revolution would sweep the world. But Moscow doubted that students could carry through a revolt of national scope. Russia wanted China as an ally and designed to combine the new Communist party with the older Nationalist Koumintang as the only way to make a solid front...
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