Chiang Kai-shek is a tactician rather than a strategist. His complete defeat in the civil war buried his military prestige.

Although he ruled the majority of the population in China, he actually didn't understand the social foundation of the whole regime.

He knew the threat of the international communist movement to him, but he oversimplified the problem and exaggerated himself, thus ruining himself.

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