Lost chance for peace: The 1945 CCP-Kuomintang peace talks revisited

Radchenko, Sergey ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5100-1447 2017. Lost chance for peace: The 1945 CCP-Kuomintang peace talks revisited. Journal of Cold War Studies 19 (2) , pp. 84-114. 10.1162/JCWS_a_00742

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Abstract

This article reconsiders the 1945 Chongqing peace talks between the Kuo-mintang and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a key turning point on the road to the Chinese civil war. The article shows that the talks represented a lost opportunity to avert the slide into fratricidal warfare. The CCP leader, Mao Zedong, under pressure from Iosif Stalin, was prepared to compromise with his rival Chiang Kai-shek on the basis of dividing China into two separately administered territories (roughly, north and south). Chiang was unwilling to consider such a step, which from his perspective was unpatriotic. His resistance to the division of China doomed the talks and precipitated the outbreak of war.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Department of Politics and International Relations (POLIR) Cardiff Law & Politics
Publisher:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press)
ISSN:	1520-3972
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	7 November 2017
Date of Acceptance:	17 February 2016
Last Modified:	03 May 2023 15:56
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/105836

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