Introduction It has been suggested that China intends to unify Taiwan through a military operation within the next five years. However, based on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) actions during the 1945-1949 civil war, military means may not be the most effective way for the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to achieve its longstanding goal of unification with Taiwan. Since …
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I would like to ask all the Chinese people to trust the leadership of the Party and the government in this great mission. Please trust that we are constantly moving in the right way toward the goal of national reunification.
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China 1949: Graham Hutchings asks, why did the Communists win?
China 1949: Year of Revolution by Graham Hutchings, Bloomsbury Academic
The conflict between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communists was one of the biggest civil wars in human history. It involved more than five million soldiers and led to a change of government and the dislocation of millions of people.
More than 70 years after the Kuomintang moved their government to Taiwan, the civil war remains unfinished. The reunification of China is still uncertain; it seems far in the future.
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