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** Credit where credit is due: things did get better under his regime, but his efforts were focused mainly on the army and not the administration. Things got a lot easier on Taiwan as the entire island was basically directly under his control, unlike those vast portions of the mainland which had never truly been governable or paid anything more than lip service to the regime.
* [[Glorious Leader]]
* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: If this guy had done a better job of running his country (harder than it sounds), [[Mao Ze Dong]] would never have come to power. China was a corrupt and misruled agricultural country, where the peasants were oppressed and miserable. In other words, ripe for a communist revolution focusing on the peasantry.
* [[Kavorka Man]]
* [[Necessary Evil]]: He still has many defenders (not surprising, since the alternative is the [[Dirty Commies]]), who believe he did more good than bad.
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* [[Right Hand Versus Left Hand]]: The biggest issue plaguing Chiang's administration. Virtually every region without a permanent garrison of troops loyal to him was inexplicably unable to provide the lions share or even any its tax revenue to the central government. The situation with the army was even worse, leading to an outright rebellion of the southern provinces and their armies in '37.
* [[Single-Issue Wonk]]: His bugbear was communism. During the 1930s, he was obsessed with destroying communists and 'communists' (figures of questionable loyalty), playing the Red Scare card as hard as possible to consolidate a reliable power base along the east coast and right the way up the Yangtze.
* [[Surrounded Byby Idiots]]: Most of Chiang's generals already ran the regions they were 'assigned' to when they were brought into the Nationalist camp; a career politican, Chiang preferred to try and deal with them by guile instead of force. Unfortunately, few of them were gifted commanders. Chiang's own pick of generals basically ran thus: Chinese, Loyal, Competent; pick any two. There were some exceptions, but not enough.
* [[The Triads and Thethe Tongs]]: Chiang was a senior member of the triads. Due to the breakdown of authorities and the general corruption of government, these criminal mobs wielded ''a lot'' of power. When the KMT moved over to Taiwan, the triads came with them (and were allowed to operate with impunity).
* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: His second - political - marriage into the Soong family. They hated each other.
* [[Vindicated Byby History]]: To an extent. It's been noted that modern-day "[[In Name Only|Communist]]" China much more closely resembles Chiang's vision than it does Mao's.
 
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