his successor, generalisimo chiang kai-shek, participated in a united front effort with china's then small communist party. one of its members was a former college librarian, named mao zedong. but in 1927, chiang kai-shek violently ended e unitedront, dering t executi of thousds of counists ars late the comnists would ta revenge on rural landlords and so. in september 1931, the imperial japanese army occupied three provinces in northeast china, in september 1931, an areoften caed manchia.rmy for massive panese militarynvasion. [suspenseful music] - this is the time that the japanese were very worried about a number of things, including the sustainability of the japanese empire. [engine noise] they were worried about shortages, shortages in oil in other sorts of supplies. they were also worried about the fact that they have too many peop. they needed new spac especily for their faers to live. and ey had been mpeting with chi, as wl as theoviet unn foinfluencin manchia,. and mahuria wathe st indusialized rt of connental et asia, and they waed toove in tre. [bill] ding januy, 1932, the i

we defeated when chiang when the japanese were defeated in 1945 and we didn't go straight for chiang kai shek. you know, we spent a couple of years trying to look at alternatives and we took the time to regroup. and you should do that as well. so yes, of course, you must reunify vietnam at some point, but need to be in such a hurry. so in that sense, they too, i think, could have been in the category of people who are somewhat surprised that the treasure in the south vietnamese state disappeared as quickly as it did. since from the chinese point of view, if things have gone a purely linear, linear extrapolation, i think they were expecting that state to certainly be around the that much of the 1970s at at least and therefore the determination which of course halpin says absolutely the autonomous choice of the north vietnamese revolutionary movement. i mean, they done and others by that stage that no, we're not going to let beijing tell what the pace should be. we're not going to sit in order to let the the americans do. but also, the soviets are not our masters on this question. and in the en

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