July 11, 2021 - Steve Pieczenik
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| Hi, this is Dr. Pchenik and today I want to talk about the rise of the Communist Party in China. | |
| Why is that important? | |
| Because the present Communist Party has a very strong hold on the Chinese people and you're talking about 1.4 billion. | |
| My prediction is that for the next several years we're going to have to deal with Xi Jinping and the Communist Party of China. | |
| In order to understand Xi Jinping and communism in China, one has to understand the roots of how it came about. | |
| In the 1800s and the early 1900s, China was not a unified country. | |
| It had been broken up by imperialist nations, France, England, even the United States. | |
| Believe it or not, I had written about the Delano family, like the Franklin Delano Roosevelt, And they made their fortune in the 1800s by shipping opium to China. | |
| That's correct. | |
| FDR didn't talk about it, but my editors didn't want me to put that in the book. | |
| Nevertheless, the point of fact is that China was controlled by warlords. | |
| Every part of China had another warlord. | |
| Until the 1920s, China was really not a unified country. | |
| It had no understanding of unity. | |
| However, a group of communists and nationalists got together in the 1920s. | |
| Ironically, one was Dr. Sun Yat-sen, a physician trained in China and then in America. | |
| And another person by the name of Adolf Jaffe, another physician trained in the Soviet Union, and together Russia helped, under the auspices of Stalin, to help Sun Yat-sen create what was called the Kuomintang, KMT, a nationalist group that in the 1920s would start to unify little parts of China together. | |
| And in that process, Stalin also brought in a doctor by the name of Jaffe, who created and helped to start the Comintern, the Communist International Party. | |
| And the basis of that was not only Sun Yat-sen, but a very important figure in the history of China. | |
| And that is Zhou Enlai. | |
| Zhou Enlai is never really talked about as much as Mao Zedong. | |
| Mao was the prominent character in the history of Chinese communists, but it was Zhou who was trained in France with another young man who was paramount in the history of China later on in the 80s, and his name was Deng Xiaoping. | |
| Both Zhou and Deng Xiaoping trained in France, worked in France, and had exposure to Western concepts, and they understood that nationalism would have to be an important concept to be implemented all over China, and it would not be easy. | |
| Chiang Kai-shek took over the Kuomintang, KMT as I told you, and Zhou and others, Deng Xiaoping and a young man by the name Mao Zedong, came in and they started the Communist Party in the 1921. | |
| So 100 years ago, on July 1st, the Communist Party of China was started. | |
| They worked together for a period of time in the 20s and 30s. | |
| However, Mao was not the greatest leader. | |
| He had to deal with all kinds of factions within the Communist Party, and he had the Great Retreat, which meant that he had to retreat from the front lines of fighting with the Kuomintang. | |
| and called it the Great Long March, which was really nothing more than a retreat. | |
| However, Kuomintang and Mao worked together when the Japanese invaded China, and that was in the 1930s. | |
| I've written about the tortures of the Japanese, but people never really understood it. | |
| In Blood Heat, I explain how the Japanese used biological weapons in Nanjing all the way towards the end of the 1920s and the 30s and killed over 20 to 30 million Chinese. | |
| In turn, the Japanese were fought by the communists and the Americans eventually came in and worked with Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-chik. | |
| At this point, I'll leave it and then we're going to continue the story next week. |
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