National Revolutionary Army
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Oct 18, 2026
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Lin Zuhan was the Minister of Rural Affairs.
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Many communists served as KMT Party representatives at various levels of the National Revolutionary Army.
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the number of the CCP members increased dramatically from 420 in 1923 to 30,000 by 1928.
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The CCP members who joined the KMT did not obey the KMT rules.
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The KMT government had to assign the army to assist maintaining social order.
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The KMT became impatient with the CCP's blatant provocation and decided to thoroughly purge its members.
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On April 12, 1927, the National Revolutionary Army disarmed the workers' picket squads in Shanghai and took over the Shanghai General Labor Union, which was the CCP's rebellion headquarters in Shanghai.
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At that point, the first CCP-KMT alliance was declared a failure and ended in blood and slaughter.
SunnyHOST
Right.
SunnyHOST
And the Nationalist Army simply did not have the industrial base for that kind of sustained offensive campaign.
JoeHOST
But wait, let me jump in here, because even if they tried to build up that industrial base over a decade, they had a much bigger problem standing right over their shoulder holding the purse strings, didn't they?
SunnyHOST
Yes, they did.
NinaHOST
In the absence of security or stability from any governmental body, it seems that many local citizens supported this volunteer corps, and Wong Fei-hung and his sons may have been members.
NinaHOST
Then in October of 1924, conflict between the National Revolutionary Army, the military branch of the Kuomintang, and this volunteer corps exploded into violence in what is now called the Canton Merchants' Corps Uprising.
NinaHOST
Whether it was arson or accident, a fire broke out and tore through vast swaths of the city, destroying numerous homes and businesses, including the Wong family clinic.
NinaHOST
Wong Fei-hung died of natural causes just a few months later, though the loss of his family's clinic grieved him deeply and his subsequent depression precipitated the decline.
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Right.
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In fact, after brokering an agreement with the nationalist leader Sun Yat-sen, the GRU essentially took over the training curriculum at the Whampoa Military Academy, which was the central training ground for the nationalist army.
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Okay, and the third head is the Comintern.
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Specifically, its international liaison service, known as the OMS.
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It is the absolute pinnacle of hiding in plain sight.
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You don't break into the fortress.
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You apply for a job managing its paperwork, and they executed the exact same strategy against the Nationalist Army's high command, which brings us to the legend of Chen Geng.
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I love this part.
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While the Marines rode the coal trains, Washington was looking for a way to end the fighting in China.
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In November 1945, General George Marshall retired as Army Chief of Staff.
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He had taken an army of fewer than 200,000 soldiers and built it into a force of more than 8 million.
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His retirement lasted one day.
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Rocky's command opened schools for the specialties it lacked and put units through the basics.
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The rail line still had to be guarded, and much of the learning happened on the job.
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On May 1, 1946, the China Theater shut down and the Army took over what was left of its duties.
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The Marines went back under the Navy, answering to the commander of the 7th Fleet.
Bryce BarrosGUEST
So I think that that's really concerning.
Bryce BarrosGUEST
And even though there was a truce between the CCP and the KMT for the war, the majority of the hard fighting went to the KMT, National Revolutionary Army, and the ROC itself.
Bryce BarrosGUEST
And a lot of the actions that were done jointly with the United States were focused on that across the theater, including in many of the different ways in which there's a sort of vagueness about how the US and China fought together in the war.
Bryce BarrosGUEST
There's been a few different sort of exemplary sort of examples of U.S. troops who were embedded with the Red Army or the PLA at the time, doing things like harassment missions and that sort of thing.
Bryce BarrosGUEST
But the hard, hard fighting against the Japanese on the mainland was with the KMT, with the ROC, and was fought by the National Revolutionary Army.
Bryce BarrosGUEST
And that sort of attrition is part of the reason, not entirely the reason, why the KMT lost the Chinese Civil War and ultimately ended up having to move or retreat or come to Taiwan in 1949 because of the lack of capacity there.
Bryce BarrosGUEST
to be able to continue fighting against the CCP, as well as other internal issues like corruption, collusion with gangs and other sort of things.
JaredHOST
Our last story is not just a natural disaster, but it is considered one of the most senseless war acts in history.
JaredHOST
In 1938, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army, Chiang Kai-shek, made a decision that would have negatively influenced the country for years to come.
JaredHOST
With the Japanese forces, which advanced rapidly and already controlled much of northern China, they seemed unstoppable.
JaredHOST
But Chiang devised a plan inspired by the military leaders of the past, flood them.
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Steve
Stephen K. BannonHOST
... uh, the Nationalist Army.
Stephen K. BannonHOST
And, and, but Xi went out of his way yesterday twice to try to rewrite World War II history and talk about the great alliance that the C- the CCP-
Jack PosobiecGUEST
No
Steve BannonHOST
The Chinese Communist Party literally did not lift a finger in all of that.
Steve BannonHOST
What they did is continue to fight the nationals, the Kuomintang, the Nationalist Army.
Steve BannonHOST
But Xi went out of his way yesterday, twice, to try to rewrite World War II history and talk about the great alliance that the CCP and the United States had during World War II.
Steve BannonHOST
That is a bald-faced lie, but it shows you folks how they understand the narrative we're trying to set here that the Russian people, not the KGB and not the Soviets and the Bolsheviks, but the Russian people in Laobaijing, the Chinese people, have been a great ally to the, wait for it, American people.