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In reality these three principles were left unrealized.

Republican China was marked by warlordism, foreign invasion, and civil war.

Although there were elected legislators, from its inception, it was actually a largely one-party dictatorship apart from some minor parties, including the Chinese Youth Party, the National Socialist Party and the Rural Construction Party, with suppression of dissent within the KMT of communists.

As the central government was quite weak, little could be done in terms of land reform or redistribution of wealth either.

Politics of this era consisted primarily of the political and military struggle between the KMT and the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) in between bouts of active resistance against Japanese invasion.