Chiang, Kai-shek

*		1887
†		1975

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Chinese politician

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	leader of the Guomindang 1925
	break with the Communists 1927
	forms the National Government in Nanking
	seizes Beijing 1927
	leads the resistance against Japanese invaders in the war 1937-45
	defeated in the civil war by the Communists 1949; flight to Taiwan (Formosa)
	maintains the claim to represent all of China. Taiwan (Nationalist China) even before his death is diplomatically isolated, as in the recognition of the People' s Republic of China by the US