In conferences with Nationalist China's dapper, diminutive Vice President Chen Cheng, Mr. Kennedy assured Chiang Kai-shek's emissary that the U.S. is as firmly opposed as ever to the admission of Red China to the United Nations.

Though the United States refused to aide Chiang Kai-shek in his hope to " recover the mainland ," it continued supporting the Republic of China with military supplies and expertise to prevent Taiwan from falling into PRC hands.

When Chiang was defeated by CPC forces in mainland China in 1949, he retreated to Taiwan with his government and his most disciplined troops, along with most of the KMT leadership and a large number of their supporters ; Chiang Kai-shek had taken effective control of Taiwan at the end of WWII as part of the overall Japanese surrender, when Japanese troops in Taiwan surrendered to Republic of China troops.

Chiang's predecessor, Sun Yat-sen, was well-liked and respected by the Communists, but after Sun's death Chiang was not able to maintain good relations with the Communists.

After Japan invaded China in 1937, Chiang agreed to a temporary truce with the CPC.

The Xinhai Revolution ultimately succeeded with the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, and Chiang became a founding member of the KMT.

In Shanghai, Chiang cultivated ties with the city's underworld gangs, dominated by the notorious Green Gang and its leader Du Yuesheng.

Chiang resigned from the office for one month in disagreement with Sun's extremely close cooperation with the Comintern, but returned at Sun's demand.

Having taken Nanking in March ( and briefly visited Shanghai, now under the control of his close ally Bai Chongxi ), Chiang halted his campaign and prepared a violent break with Wang's leftist elements, which he believed threatened his control of the KMT.

Wang Jingwei's National Government was weak militarily, and was soon ended by Chiang with the support of a local warlord, ( Li Zongren of Guangxi ).

Originally rebuffed by her in the early-1920s, Chiang managed to ingratiate himself to some degree with Soong May-ling's mother by first divorcing his wife and concubines, and promising to eventually convert to Christianity.

At Moscow, Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls ; and, in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and other socialist leaders.

A picture was taken of Chiang with Borodin and Galens.

Chiang Kai-shek ( right ) with future Prime Minister of Japan | Japanese Prime Minister Tsuyoshi Inukai ( center ), Pan-Asianism | Pan-Asianist leader Tōyama Mitsuru ( left ) in Japan ( 1929 )

Once Chiang Kai-shek was done with his White Terror on pro-communist laborers, he proceeded to turn on the capitalists.

Gangster connections allowed Chiang to attack them in the International Settlement, successfully forcing capitalists to back him up with their assets for his military expeditions.

Chiang Kai-shek ( right ) meets with the Muslim Generals Ma Bufang ( second from left ), and Ma Buqing ( first from left ) in Xining at August 1942.

They forced Chiang into making a " Second United Front " with the Communists against Japan.

After releasing Chiang and returning to Nanjing with him, Zhang was placed under house arrest and the generals who had assisted him were executed.

Chiang and his wife, Soong May-ling, with Joseph Stilwell in Burma ( 1942 )

Chiang also threatened the Tibetans with aerial bombardment if they worked with the Japanese.

Due to concerns about widespread and well-documented corruption in Chiang's government throughout his rule ( though not always with his knowledge ), the U. S. government limited aid to Chiang for much of the period of 1946 to 1948, in the midst of fighting against the People's Liberation Army led by Mao Zedong.

* 1943 – World War II: War in the Pacific – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan ( see Cairo Conference )

** WWII: War in the Pacific: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and ROC leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet at the Cairo Conference to discuss ways to defeat Japan.

Beside President Chiang Kai-shek, the U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower waved to crowds during his visit to Taipei in June 1960.

John Rabe boarded the U. S. gunboat Panay on December 9 and sent two telegrams, one to Chiang Kai-shek by way of the American ambassador in Hankow, and one to the Japanese military authority in Shanghai.

A German businessman and the chairman of the International Committee, John Rabe, boarded the U. S. gunboat Panay on December 9 and sent two telegrams, one to Chiang Kai-shek by way of the American ambassador in Hankow, and one to the Japanese military authority in Shanghai.

The American Volunteer Group was largely the creation of Claire L. Chennault, a retired U. S. Army Air Corps officer who had worked in China since August 1937, first as military aviation advisor to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in the early months of the Sino-Japanese War, then as director of a Chinese Air Force flight school centered in Kunming.

Present at the conference were Chiang Kai-shek ; his wife, Madame Chiang ; Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, commander of all U. S. forces in the China Burma India Theater ; and Colonel Clayton L. Bissell, who had arrived in early March.

Stilwell and Bissell made it clear to both Chennault and Chiang that unless the AVG became part of the U. S. Army Air Force, its supplies would be cut off.

With President Chiang Kai-shek, the U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower waves to crowds during his visit to Taipei, Taiwan in June 1960.

* Major General Albert Wedemeyer became Chief of Staff to Chiang Kai-shek and commander of the U. S. Forces, China Theater ( USFCT ).

Currie returned to Chungking in July 1942 to try to patch up the strained relations between Chiang and General Joseph W. Stilwell, commander of U. S. forces in China.

It was here that in 1946 the U. S. special diplomatic mission representing the President of the United States led by General George C. Marshall met with Chiang Kai-Shek to discuss the role of post-WWII China.

Initially U. S. land units were split between those who came under the operational command of the India Command under General Sir Archibald Wavell, as the Commander-in-Chief in India, and those in China, which ( technically at least ) were commanded by Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek, as the Supreme Allied Commander in China.

** Major General Albert Wedemeyer became Chief of Staff to Chiang Kai-shek and commander of the U. S. Forces, China Theater ( USFCT ).

It was renamed the Stilwell Road ( named after General Joseph Stilwell of the U. S. Army ) in early 1945 at the suggestion of Chiang Kai-shek.

While Secretary of State George C. Marshall had hoped that Wedemeyer could convince Chiang Kai-shek to institute those military, economic, and political reforms necessary to defeat the Communists, he accepted Truman's views, and suppressed publication of Wedemeyer's report, further provoking resentment by pro-Nationalist and / or anti-communist advocates both inside and outside the U. S. government and the armed forces.

Relations with the Kuomintang nationalist government have in the past been close, but when the China Times U. S. Edition ceased publication after the Chiang Nan Incident in October 1984, the China Times broke with then KMT president Chiang Ching-kuo in protest.

* John Chiang ( California politician ) ( 江俊輝 ), State Controller of California, and U. S. politician.

replica of Ashoka pillar at Wat U Mong near Chiang Mai, Thailand, built by King Mangrai in 13 < sup > th </ sup > century

The Ashoka pillar at Wat U Mong near Chiang Mai, Thailand showing Dharma Chakra prevails over beasts ( lion ).

Until the war, the U. S. had largely abandoned the government of Chiang Kai-Shek, which had retreated to Taiwan, and had no plans to intervene in the Chinese Civil War.