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 ).

After Chiang's resignation the vice-president of the ROC, Li Zongren, became China's president.

Chiang Kai-shek and Li Zongren

But Chiang and Li Zongren, whose armies defeated warlord Sun Chuanfang, moved eastward toward Jiangxi.

* Li Zongren

The second account, related by Li Zongren in his memoirs, reports that Chiang Kai-shek held a conference in Nanking with his senior commanders and staff to discuss how to deal with the oncoming onslaught of the Japanese army.

In attendance were Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, He Yingqin, Xu Yongchang, Tang Shengzhi and Alexander von Falkenhausen.

According to the Memoirs of Li Zongren, the supervisory unit shot at waves of fleeing Chinese soldiers from behind.

They miscalculated however, and his son quickly pledged his allegiance to Chiang Kai-shek, turning his forces over to Kuomintang control and supported Chiang in his war of unification against other warlords such as Li Zongren, Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan.

However, warlords such as Li Zongren and Yan Xishan who used to oppose Chiang, did not want Chiang to die.

His plan was to begin an all-out attack upon the Nationalist forces of Chiang, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, drive them away from the Yangtze and Nanking and pursue them southward back into Guangzhou, where the expedition had started.

Against the advice of Li Zongren, who thought it was better to withdraw south, Chiang, having exclaimed, " I will not return to Nanking until Xuzhou is back in our possession ".

Following this, Li Zongren and other military leaders evacuated the whole army to the Yangtze with the principal goal of defending Nanking.

Li Zongren, the de facto leader of the Nanking Government, set out to negotiate the possible reconciliation between the Wuhan and Nanking Governments.

Local provincial warlords who seized or enhanced their power included Li Zongren of the New Guangxi Clique, Yan Xishan of the Shanxi clique, Feng Yuxiang and his Northwestern or Guominjun Clique, Tang Shengzhi in Hunan, Chiang Kuang-Nai in Fujian, Sheng Shicai of Xinjiang, Long Yun of Yunnan, Wang Jialie of Guizhou, Liu Xiang and Liu Wenhui of the Sichuan Clique, Han Fuqu of Shandong, Bie Tingfang ( 别廷芳 ) of Henan, the Ma Clique of Ma Bufang and his family in Qinghai, Ma Hongkui in Ningxia, and Ma Zhongying in Gansu, Chen Jitang and his Cantonese Clique, Lu Diping ( 鲁涤平 ) of Jiangxi and Jing Yuexiu ( 井岳秀 ) of Shaanxi.

Among the Allegiance's members was Li Zongren, prominent Guangxi warlord and Kuomintang military commander and Wang Jingwei, who would later serve as the collaborationist President of the Executive Yuan and Chairman of the National Government in Japanese occupied China during World War II.

de: Li Zongren

fr: Li Zongren

pl: Li Zongren

sv: Li Zongren

# REDIRECT Li Zongren

# REDIRECT Li Zongren

From the mid-1920s to 1949, Bai and his close ally Li Zongren ruled Guangxi province as regional warlords with their own troops and considerable political autonomy.

Bai and classmates Huang Shaohong and Li Zongren would become three leading figures of the Guangxi's military.

Yan Xishan continued in his attempts to work with both sides, creating the impression among Li's supporters that he was a " stooge " of Chiang, while those who supported Chiang began to bitterly resent Yan for his willingness to work with Li.

Shortly after this promotion, Li would play a major role in ending Zhao's career, after Zhao publicly supported demonstrators in Tiananmen Square.

Perhaps realizing that opposition to capitalism would be poorly received by Deng and other Party elders, Li publicly supported Deng's economic reforms.

In the election, most members of the party supported James Soong, and in fact both Li Ao and the chairman of the New Party encouraged people to do so.

Since the 2000 presidential election, Li Ao has bitterly spoken out against pro-independence Nobel laureate Yuan T. Lee, who publicly supported Chen Shui-bian.

The talks, however, were interrupted on Aug. 24th when Sun's troops, supported by Wuhan dissenters, attacked the Yangtze warship that Li was staying on.

The Comintern sent Yang back to China to assist and support other pro-Comintern CCP leaders, including Bo Gu, Otto Braun ( Li De ), Wang Ming, and Zhang Guotao, but Yang and some of the other 28 Bolsheviks, including Ye Jianying, supported Mao in preference to leaders which the Comintern preferred.

After it became clear that Li was more successful in gaining the support of other senior CCP members, Yang changed his position, and supported Li.

Li, who supported ' one country, two systems ', said he took the election as an opportunity to " educate " the people in Taiwan.

Bai had another falling out with Chiang when he supported General Li Zongren, his fellow Guangxi comrade-in-arms, for the vice presidency in the 1948 general election when Li won against Chiang's hand picked candidate, Sun Fo.

The Chinese film titled " 少林寺 or Shaolin Temple " starring action star Jet Li ( 李 連杰 ) was shot at Shaolin Temple and supported by members of the Shorinji Kempo group.

The hospital is supported by the Li Ka-shing Specialist Clinics for specialty outpatient services.

Li supported Deng's reform and helped Deng in the rise to power.

He was a strong supporter of Jiang Zemin's rise to power, and during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Li was one of the hardline Party elders who pushed for a strong response to the demonstrations, and supported premier Li Peng's desire to use military force to suppress the protests.

She did not seek reelection in December 2004 and supported her friend Li Ao in his successful bid for a seat.

Xiang supported Li and stood by his idea that it was the zero hour of the Chinese revolution.

Li was well respected, had supported the Railway Protection Movement, and knew English which would be useful in dealing with foreign concerns.

While the grassroots of the party supported a change of leadership and De Magistris initially did not rule out that he may be an alternative candidate to Di Pietro, the party's old guard ( Silvana Mura, Massimo Donadi, Felice Belisario, Luigi Li Gotti and Leoluca Orlando ) staunchly defended the current leader.

After their initiative was supported by Wan Li, and later in Sichuan province by Zhao Ziyang, it became national policy.