Permasalahan Kuomintang dalam Politik China, 1911-1949: Satu Tinjauan Umum (The Guomindang’s Problems In Chinese Politic, 1911-1949: A General Survey)

Abstract

China at the beginning and the middle of the 20th century experienced various problems that threatened its sovereignty. The Qing dynasty failed to govern China had been dethroned by the nationalists who later set up the Kuomintang (KMT). KMT also faces major problems to solve China’s problems. Yuan Shih Kai who was expected to lead China failed to do so, and had betrayed the KMT struggle. Yuan Shih Kai’s death brought a major problem when China broke out with emerged several warlords. With the help from the Soviet Union, the KMT succeed to unite China in 1928. Despite being in power in China, the KMT still had big problems. The warlords still did not show a strong loyalty to the KMT. While the KMT and communist relations began to worsen in the mid-1920s. This create the problem between them which the KMT tried to eliminate the communist. The invasion of the Japanese army in the 1930s brought the KMT in another problem. Despite the support of the Soviet Union and the United States against Japan, the KMT failed to control Japanese advance. The end of war did not end the KMT problem. KMT had to face the old problems which was communism. The problem between the two sides continued until the end of the Second World War. At the end the KMT failed to defend China when it was defeated by the communists in 1949.