Evolvement And Influence To Chinese Political Situation Of Kuomintang's Policy About The Middle Parties

This essay does a comprehensive, meticulous study and deep analysis towards the Kuomintang's (KMT) policy about the middle parties during the 22 years when it ruled China. It holds that KMT's policy about the middle parties not only was firm suppression and attack, but was draw and separation; not only had continuity and stability, but was regulated constantly. During the 10-year-long civil war KMT adoptted suppression policy against the middle parties and intensified the turbulence of Chinese political situation. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, KMT pursued containment policy with dual trick, which contributed to transfer China from tanglesome warfare of all kinds of political powers to national war against Japan, but blocked the middle parties?further increase and Chinese political democratization. After the winning of the War of Resistance Against Japan KMT selected separation and draw policy, which raised the status and strengthened the organization of the middle parties, gave China a chance to realize multiparty democracy and broke up the middle camp. On the eve of it's government's KMT pursued suppression policy again, which drived the middle parties into the camp of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and caused the middle camp's disappearance. The essay also points out that because KMT's policy about the middle parties served for it's policy against CCP, because KMT holded up it's status of being in power through drawing up the process and pattern of Chinese democracy according to Sun Yetsen's thought, because KMT wanted to enhance unity and stability through establishing autocratic government, KMT's policy towards the middle parties was utilitarian and conservative all along. Although it wanted to get middle parties?support and thought highly of their leaders, KMT always unwilling to disobey sun Yetsen's thought, to change the strategy against CCP or to weeken the authority of its leader. So, KMT would adopt suppression if the middle parties doubted and challenged to these principles and wouldn't exchange these for the middle parties?support. Therefore, Chinese political situation had some continuous characteristics: China could not realize western multiparty polity for a long time; the relation between the middle parties and KMT was strained permanently; the middle parties and CCP cooperated over a long period of time. These destroyed the trust between KMT and the middle parties seriously and benefited to the formation of the multiparty cooperation pattern under CCP's lead.