nobody interest at civil war of China from 1945-1949?

No offense but the post WW2 Chinese civil war started in 1947 and ended in 1949.

Probably there aren't as many disputes on more modern issues as some ancient ones.

But, I think China is a great nation that should be united again.

Its China's destiny to be one of the most important nations on Earth.

"There lies a sleeping Giant. Let him sleep, for when he awakens, he will shake the world" --- Napoleon Bonaparte, 1803

But, I think China is a great nation that should be united again.

I know perfectly what you mean, I mean China is now divided because of different western ideals, isn't it?  But that doesn't mean that unification should pay a high price of human rights neither

"There lies a sleeping Giant. Let him sleep, for when he awakens, he will shake the world" --- Napoleon Bonaparte, 1803

China did actually shake the "world" when it rose into power.  Again, Quishihuang, emperor of Tang, Qing, etc.  Again, it were its border nations who paid the price. 

I disagree.  China has had the military strength to destroy most of its neighbours for decades.  Yet it has not become "Uncle Sam Eat World" that the US has.  US foreign policy for the past 50 years has been nothing but "OBEY ME, BECAUSE" and when a country resists (or has something valuable, like, say, OIL) the US just goes and rapes a country over and over until there's nothing of value left.  Case in point: Iraq.  2003-2004.

The soldiers are doing their job (for the most part).  Its the policy makers who are responsible.

And the thread degenerate into political quabbling again.

 

 

Nationalist army was a joke, equippted with U.S. weapon and training, outnumbering the communist by some 8 to 1 even at this date was beaten by a bunch of "Tu Ba Lu" who barely have any updated assault rifles. This might be one of the most outmatched defeat in the 20th century. And despite their defeat, their excuse was "Its not our incompetance, its that the communist army is too sly"

The people live in China do not support Nationalist(also knows as Gu Mindang) that is the main reason they lost the battle to the communist party. Actually the communist armies are very strong, also are very sly. If you interest at Korean war you will found out it is almost the same number of armies between N.K(with China) and S.K(with US), I do not understand  why a lot of the history book says that Chinese won by more sodier. My grandpa joined Korean war before, he know exactly how it is.

They are sly, also they have a very good general Peng.

I agree.

According to Sun Zhi's Art of War, soldiers are never tired of tricks. There might be a better way of saying it.

You don't wait till your enemies are all awake and prepared for battles to fight them. You fight them when it is a good time to fight them.

The PLA was sort of like the steppe army of the 20th century, they rely on mobility and little heavy logistic to fight, against the Nationalist who was better equippted than them, they would just retreat, and lure the nationalist into mountainous terrain where their artillery have little affect, then they would surround that troop with superior number and wipe it out, when other nationalist army come to the rescue, the PLA would long be gone due to their superb speed. And they would simply take enemy equippment and use them. Another instance is during teh war against the Japanese, the PLa would withdraw into a freezing mountainous terrain, the Japanese detachment would follow, but eventually they got lost within this maze of winter, while the PLA knows it perfectly well, the Japanese are worried but one of their followers knew the terrain so decide to lead the Japanese out. At this moment the PLA threw a hand grenade and instantly killed that man. The Japanese turned around to fire but the PLA was long gone, eventually they were frozen to death. This is similar to the mongol battles against the Jin, even though Jin had superior equippment and size, they lack the mobility to fight the mongol army and thus collapsed, yet the difference between the PLA equippment and that of the Nationalist is far more drastic like that of a primitive war band vs. that of modern armament, since many of the PLA actually still used cold weapon, I have a friend whose grandfather use a big broad sword when fighting against the Japanese.

 

"My grandfather was an officer during the 8 years anti-occupation war, a gradudate from Huang Pu. The KMT still provided the bulk of the armed forces arrayed against the Japanese. The PLA is restricted more to harassing the Japanese. If only Chiang trust the Communists more and commit more troops against the Japanese...sigh..."

My great grandfather was an important figure of "qing ban" (literally means clear gang) in Shanghai during that time.

He also contributed in the Anti-Japanese resistance.

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