Chinese Communist Influences

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neither the knowledge nor the power that would have been necessary
to cope with the superior science, technology, economic organization,
and military force that expanding West brought to bear on it. The
general sense of national weakness and humiliation was rendered still
keener by a unique phenomenon, the modernization of Japan and its rise
to great power status. Japan's success threw China's failure into
sharp remission.
The Japanese performance contributed to the discrediting and
collapse of China's imperial system, but it did little to make things
easier for the subsequent successor. The Republic was never able to
achieve territorial and national unity in the face of bad
communications and the widespread diffusion of modern arms throughout
the country. Lacking internal authority, it did not carry much weight
in its foreign relations. As it struggled awkwardly, there arose two
more radical political forces, the relatively powerful ...

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and invasion of Southeastern
Asia. But military rescue from Japan brought no significant
improvement in the Kuomintang's domestic performance in the political
and economic fields, which if anything to get worse. Clearly the
pre-Communist history of Modern China has been essentially one of
weakness, humiliation, and failure. This is the atmosphere in which
the CPC developed its leadership and growth in. The result has been a
strong determination on the part of that leadership to eliminate
foreign influence within China, to modernize their country, and to
eliminate Western influence from eastern Asia, which included the
Soviet Union. China was changing and ...

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