Original sentence: Chang and Halliday also suggest that Mao also used the war in order to get more weapons from the Soviet Union and the factories and expertise to make them, part of his plan to make China a major military power...It had been suggested by author Jung Chang and historian Jon Halliday in the controversial Mao: The Unknown Story that Mao Zedong, leader of Communist China, pushed for war for an opportunity to send in troops that had fought on the opposing Nationalist side during the Chinese Civil War and get rid of them in large numbers via one-sided battles against UN forces
Edited sentence: Chang and Halliday also allege that Mao alsouse the war in order to get more weapons from the Soviet Union and the factories and expertise to make them, part of his plan to make China a major military power...It had been alleged by author Jung Chang and historian Jon Halliday in the controversial Mao: The Unknown Story that Mao Zedong, leader of Communist China, pushed for war for an opportunity to send in troops that had fought on the opposing Nationalist side during the Chinese Civil War and get rid of them in large numbers via in one-sided battles against UN forces