The Chinese Communist Party and Taiwan's Kuomintang

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In 1920s China, Sun Yat-sen's Kuomintang overwhelmed the newly established Communist Party. At the time, the First United Front was formed through a process in which Communist Party members individually joined the Kuomintang with the shared goal of eliminating warlords. However, Chiang Kai-shek, who had seized military power, purged Communist Party members within his own party first. He was more wary of the Communist Party's expansion of power t…