The '''Chinese Civil War''' was fought between 1946 and 1949 between the [[People's Liberation Army]] of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] led by [[Mao Zedong]] and the [[Guomindang]] forces led by [[Chiang Kai-shek]]. The Communists emerged victorious, and Mao declared the [[People's Republic of China]]'s founding in Beijing on October 1, 1949. The Nationalists retreated to the island province of [[Taiwan]] and claimed that as the [[Republic of China]] they were the true government of China, a difference in viewpoint that still remains unresolved today.
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Between 1931 and 1945 the [[Republic of China]] (ROC or KMT) was engaged at the same time in two separate wars. One was with Japan and the other with the [[Comintern]]. The Soviet Union fought the Republic of China with an army of [[Chinese Communist Party|Chinese revolutionaries]], the CCP, directed and armed by the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union's ambitions in China were to transform all northern China — [[Sinkiang]], [[Mongolia]] and [[Manchuria]] — into Soviet dependencies and to convert what remained of China into a [[Communist]] satellite state.
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The '''Chinese Civil War''' was continued in 1945 after the defeat of [[Japan]] between the [[People's Liberation Army]] of the Chinese Communist Party led by [[Mao Zedong]] and the [[Kuomindang]] (KMT) forces led by [[Chiang Kai-shek]]. The Communists emerged victorious, and Mao declared the [[People's Republic of China]]'s founding in Beijing on October 1, 1949. The Nationalists retreated to the island province of [[Taiwan]] and claimed that as the [[Republic of China]] they were the true government of China, a difference in viewpoint that still remains unresolved today.