{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Ah yes, the socialist-inclusive regime of Chiang Kai-Shek.", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/184053414183/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: Ah yes, the socialist-inclusive regime of Chiang Kai-Shek.</div>\n<p><a href=\"/post/184050272868/\" target=\"_blank\">Fair</a>, his regime was not \u201csocialist-inclusive\u201d, but neither was it really the ruling body of the entirety of China. When the Americans dealt with the regional Powers That Be they included Mao\u2019s Communists, both in the \u201cSecond United Front\u201d of WWII and afterward. A huge conservative issue of the \u201850s was \u201cWho Lost China?\u201d, and a common suggested answer was the State Department, by seeking to constrain Chiang and include Mao in postwar power-sharing, in hopes of modernizing China</p>"}