Almost immediately he began to restrict the activities of the newly-elected national assembly, and after the assassination in 1913 of Song Jiaoren, parliamentary leader of the Guomindang (or Kuomintang, the nationalist party founded by Sun Yat-sen), a second struggle broke out between the revolutionary party and Yuan. Yuan was able to crush dissent, and was hailed by the foreign powers as the 'strong leader' they had sought for China.
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Almost immediately he began to restrict the activities of the newly elected national assembly, and after the assassination in 1913 of Song Jiaoren, parliamentary leader of the Guomindang (or Kuomintang, the nationalist party founded by Sun Yat-sen), a second struggle broke out between the revolutionary party and Yuan. Yuan was able to crush dissent, and was hailed by the foreign powers as the 'strong leader' they had sought for China.