From: v999qx29@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: F-16's fear?
Date: 8 Sep 92 15:10:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
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In article <1992Sep8.125938.446@cc.uow.edu.au>, u9259236@cc.uow.edu.au (Leslie Shing Chi Tong) writes...
>v999qx29@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
> 
>>In article <1992Sep7.162941.16749@cc.uow.edu.au>, u9259236@cc.uow.edu.au (Leslie Shing Chi Tong) writes...
>>> 
>>>As far as it can remember from reading history books,when the Japanese
>>>first invaded china,the Nationalist didn't fight the japs to defend china,
>>>but instead let the communist do the fighting,so they can preserve their 
>>>resources to fight the communist when they(communist) has defeated japan,
>>>there were some nationalists soldiers who choose to fight the japanese to
>>>defend their country but Cheng Kai Shek decided to cut off their supplies
>>>to force them to withdrawn,it wasn't until Shek was kidnapped in the
>>>**** **** incident(can't remember the english name) in which he was forced
>>>to co-operate with the communist to fight the japanese.
>>>When the war is over,Shek was eventually defeated by the communist and 
>>>escaped to Taiwan,many nationalist soldier(about a million) was left in china
>>>and eventually masscare by communist,
>>>can I get a explaination for the above incident?
>>>(note: I'm not a communist supporter nor a TIers,I just wanted to know why
>>>Shek was such a shit-head,while he has "awarded" himself many medals,but I 
>>>don't think that he has actcaully took part in any battle at all)
> 
> 
>>I suggest you to read the history book written by foreigners instead of those
>>written by any side of the straights. 
>>As can be recalled by elder Taiwanese who has experienced WWII in Japanese
>>ruled Taiwan, the Japanese propaganda was "Destroy Roosvelt,Churchill and
>>Chiang". Never heard about Mao or Communist.
>The above informations were from foreign history books,anyway,you didn't 
>answer my question.

I am not a historian and I believe almost all the history books I read
about that era are somewhat distorted in favor of the author's political
situation. However , I think both Chiang and Mao did want to fight Japanese
invaders but they probabaly cared more about their power. Chiang had already
controll most of the military resources at that time. What he wanted was to
strengthen his controll so he would have the full power to fight Japanese
back and win the war so that he can be an eternal hero in the history. 
On the contrary, Mao had nothing compare to Chiang. So asking Chiang to fight
Japanese immediatly before Chiang was ready fitted his strategical profit.
Chiang was an old fashioned ruler . His early success gave him a lot of
burdens which caused his final failure. He always tried to put people together
to work for him. But, Mao had a new mechanism of developing his power. That
is making people hate each other ( such as hatred between classes) . And,
after he won , he controlled the people using much more cruel measures.
The wars at Taier villige , Changsa, Sanghai  etc. was won by Chiang-cntrolled
armies. Chiang certaily didn't take the role of firing gun . He was the comander
of all Chinese armies . ..............
There is too much to say. However , the days dominated by power hungry rulers
are gone. We don't need no more hero. What we need is a good system.