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Hongkong was under British rule Mao never dared to go against British. They have this thought of attacking Hongkong But their priorities changed.
Partition of India is based on Religion , Pakistanis wanted a country based on religion, even though we have won the war in 1971 India never tried to take the lands of Pakistan.
Please, the Great Leap Forward may have the highest annual death rate in the PRC history, but it is actually much lower than the AVERAGE annual death rate of China under KMT rule.
You do realize that during KMT's political purges was way more brutal than the cultural revolution can dream to be. For example, before April 1927, KMT has 650 thousand members and after its political purge, there are less than 220 thousand members left----this is how KMT treat their own members, let alone other people.
The "intellectual class will be well treated" bit is utter BS. First of all, you are talking about "intellectual" regarding a nation that had less than 20% of the people literate. Of those, only a few so-called "intellectual masters" are actually well treated. For example, Hu Shi's monthly salary was 240 dayang (a silver coin which is the currency at the time). In comparison, a common libarian's salary is 8. Essentially these few elites are making 30 to 50 times more money of the average intellectual. They sure are having a good time while the ordinary people are having problem just to get enough food. To make the matter worse, none of these "intellectual masters" are scientists, engineers, doctors or anything that is even remotely useful for building a modern nation. While these liberal arts majors were feasting on what little wealth China could spare at the time, the scientific and technology progress suffered and stagnated. Was it any surprise that when CCP took over, these "intellectual masters" lost their privilege and money was instead devoted to produce scientists, engineers, doctors, technicians and other professionals that are actually useful?
Similarly land owners' life is way worse under KMT rule by a Himalayan sized margin. The average land owner back in those days are frankly, not much better off the peasants. This is because with all the warlords, bandits and invaders, the average landowners' life is in as much jeopardy as the average peasantry. Without the backing of a powerful industry, these land owners are also barely producing enough to feed themselves. The only ones enjoying it are the few mega-elites who have so much land and wealth that they are essentially warlords themselves.
I don't get why people would ever try to put KMT and CCP at the same level. The former ran one of the darkest period in Chinese history while the latter is capable of propelling a backwater nation into one of the most powerful nation in this world. This like comparing a student that is barely scraping by with someone who can jump three or four grades ahead.
That is not true.
India is dreaming to annex Tibet and so easily lured by the CIA offer at the time.
This is imperialism. The princely states are given a choice to vote out just like Pakistan. If Pakistan did not control substantial military units upon partition, she could be invaded.
China despite having the ability does not even invade Hong Kong and Macau. India invaded Goa.
I have to admit you are right in the atrocities committed by Mao.
Chiang Kai Shek, a great leader
Without Mao zedong, China will be the ally of U.S to contain USSR, Japan would be different from now it is, maybe poorer.
ROC has killed 200 million Chinese during their 38 years of rule, both Beiyang and KMT were bad, but KMT was even worse than Beiyang.
KMT would make China half of its current size. With 1.4 billion population, what would be the future for Chinese people if our territory is reduced to less than 50%?
Without Mao, China would be one of US lapdogs, while US would still use Japan as another lapdog to make sure China wouldn't become too strong.
KMT sucks and fck Chiang Kai-Shek and his family!!!
You need to verify your numbers that KMT killed so many in 1927 purges. Do not bullshit by denigrating Chiang Kai Shek, who is one of the best leader. So tell me where you get the numbers. The Great Leap Forward is the single peace time event that killed the most people surpassing war time, 30 millions killed.
The intellectual class is well treated is true. I am not talking about peasant class. You talk about lack of scientist and engineers, but at its not KMT fault. KMT took over from Qing which has none of these at all, and she provide a basic education to many people, that allow PRC to quickly train engineers and scientist when she took over. Mao was destroying a lot of intellect.
Give me evidence saying landlord is miserable under KMT, and how you define landlord, on how big area of land. In comparison, landlord got massacre in land reform under Mao. Few millions died and even more was tortured. A lot of their women folks raped. Mao is a scumbag.
In old China, landless peasants are hired by landlords. How can "landlord not much better than" peasants as you claim?
While there are lack of modern farming under Chiang and that is not Chiang's fault. He took over from a dinasaur Qing dynasty. Under Mao, 30 million died in his experiment before he managed to figure out how to farm better.
KMT running one of the darkest period? You better study more. Without Chiang, China will be overrun by Japan.
Do not lie. I hate dishonest Chinese like you.
Chiang Kai Shek, a great leader