result of cold war in china?

Question

is Mao and his communist regime a result of the cold war? to answer this question would i include Deng to show the change over time?

did the cold war affect china in any way?

Answer 1

No, Mao Zedong and the CCP were NOT a result of the Cold War. After the revolution that began in 1911 that created the republic, the question of leadership arose in 1925 when the founding father of the Nationalist Party (KMT), Sun Yat-sen, died. Ambitious and autocratic, Chiang Kai-shek tried to take control of China by force. The Civil War in China began in 1927 when Chiang's soldiers tried to remove or eliminate the communists that were working together in the Nationalist Party. The Civil War between Chiang's KMT and Mao's CCP would last over 20 years (and through the war against Japan) until the CCP grew in strength and popularity and defeated the KMT both politically and militarily in 1949. The Cold War truly began after the Second World War in 1947, China then found herself in a new struggle against enemies they really didn't want and with allies they didn't really want either. Deng Xiao-ping can be added as a reformer who helped to change many of the disastrous economic policies of Mao's era.

Answer 2

A result of the Cold War, NO. A result of WWII..Not listening to Gen MacArthur and stemming the tide of Communism right then and there during WWII. Allies had a friend at one time in China, but, by not helping economically and militarily the forces of the communist regime took over.

Answer 3

No. Chinese economic growth is in our interest. China's primary customer is the US. The more integrated our economies, the more it will be in China's own self-interest to play nice with us, and the more it will be in our interest to play nice with them. China is run by a dictatorship (albeit one of party rather than a single person or family dynasty). That dictatorship is EXTREMELY sensitive to prestige, and raising their military up is part of that prestige. But they can only go so far. An invasion of Taiwan or other similar actions would not only entice a shooting war, but it would likely bring economic isolation which would CRUSH China. Also, Chinese growth has been (due to a variety of govt policies) almost exclusively export driven. They don't have much of an internal economy. So economic isolation would hurt even more. If the US became economically isolated it would hurt, but we have enough internal development and diversification that after an adjustment period we'd be okay. We'd certainly be poorer as any economically isolated nation would be, but the effect on China would dwarf such an effect in the US.