Chiang Kai-Shek Brief Biography of Essay

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("Chiang Kai-Shek," The World at War, 2006) He thus expended much of his might and energy fighting internal forces, rather than directing his energies against the immediate invaders. After Chiang used most of his troops to prepare for war with the Communists he lost more ground to the Japanese. Only when massive American aid and reinforcements were sent to Chiang, Chiang was finally able to push the Japanese out of China. ("Chiang Kai-Shek," The World at War, 2006)

Always, "Chiang's skill lay in the political arena" as he created a cult of personality amongst the foreign media and leaders. ("Chiang Kai-Shek, The World at War, 2006) But after four years of civil war against the peasants he had spurned, Chiang and his nationalist warlords were forced to flee to the island of Taiwan.
There he established a government-in-exile and dreamed of retaking the mainland. His government was no more democratic, however, than the Maoists that had taken over China. Chiang imposed martial law on Taiwan and only after his 1975 death did his son and successor Chiang Ching-kuo eventually lifted these restrictions. It was left up to Chiang's son to create a democracy upon the soil where his father only succeeded in creating a military dictatorship. And relations between Mainland China and the island of Taiwan remain controversial and fraught even today, the legacy of this man who wished to represent his nation, but ultimately only ended in representing himself and his own military ambitions.

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