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The conflict would escalate to the scale of a nation-wide civil war over the summer, as Chiang Kai-shek launched a large-scale assault on Communist territory in north China with 113 brigades (a total of 1.6 million troops). [219] [196] Knowing their disadvantages in manpower and equipment, the CCP adopted a "passive defence" strategy.
Following the 1919 May Fourth Movement, communism began to gain traction in China. [8] During 1919 and 1920, reading groups focused on the study of Marxism began to develop in China, with participants who had been involved in political movements of the 1910s like Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, as well as younger activists including Mao Zedong. [9]: 23
Under the advice of Lee Kuan Yew, Deng Xiaoping agreed to further open up the country and stop exporting communist ideologies and revolutions to other countries like Mao did, and the decisions significantly improved the relations between China and many countries, especially those in south-east Asia.
The USSR had a network of Communist parties it supported; China now created its own rival network to battle it out. [205] Lorenz M. Lüthi writes: "The Sino-Soviet split was one of the key events of the Cold War, equal in importance to the construction of the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Second Vietnam War, and Sino-American ...
A major effort to support Communist Party activity in Western democracies, especially the Italian Communist Party and the French Communist Party, fell short of gaining positions in the government. The Late Cold War (1960–1970s) in which China turned against the Soviet Union and organized alternative Communist parties in many countries.
In American political discourse, the "loss of China" is the unexpected Chinese Communist Party coming to power in mainland China from the U.S.-backed Nationalist Chinese Kuomintang government in 1949 and therefore the "loss of China to communism."
Florida public school students will learn that 110 million people died under communist rule from 1900 to 1987 | Opinion
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power 1850 to the Present (3rd ed. 2019) popular history. Garver, John W. China's Quest: The History of the Foreign Relations of the People's Republic (2nd ed. 2018) Guillermaz, Jacques. The Chinese Communist Party In Power, 1949–1976 (1977) excerpt; Hsü, Immanuel Chung-yueh.