At the origin, the Guomindang or Kuo-Min-Tang (KMT) (Chinese traditional: 中國國民黨; Hanyu pinyin : Zhōngguó Guómíndǎng ; EFEO: Tchong-kouo Kouo-min-you ang ; Tongyong pinyin : Jhongguo Guomindang ; literally “Chinese national party of the people” or “popular party of China”) is a nationalist Political party Chinese created by Sun Yat-SEN. With the international level, he is member of the international democratic Union. Created after the revolution of 1911, it gains the first elections in 1912, but is driven out capacity in 1913. Starting from 1918, it directs a rival government to Canton and ends up seizing the capacity at the end of the Expédition of North in 1928 where it will found a mode of sole party. After the victory of the the United States over the Japan and the takeover of Tchang Kaï-chek, it must face the offensive of the troops of the Chinese Communist party and must flee with Taiwan, helped by the United States, its ally. It is only in the Années 1980 and 1990 that the mode will be democratized there gradually

Guomindang literally means “Party ( dang ) popular ( min ) national ( guo )”, the adjective being placed before the name which it qualifies.

Doctor Sun Yat-SEN

Following the fall of the imperial capacity, Sun Yat-SEN decides to consolidate its forces before the first elections. Helped of Song Jiaoren, it gathers several revolutionary groups (whose Tongmenghui) and, the August 25th 1912, founds Guomindang in the province of the Guangdong. The party is defined then as a party Démocratique and moderate Socialiste.

Carried out by Song Jiaoren, the party gains the majority with the first National Assembly. Song is assassinated the March 20th 1913 at the station of Shanghai. As a president, Yuan Shikai wanted to request important loans abroad. Guomindang being opposed to this policy is then driven out of the Parliament and Yuan Shikai ends even up dissolving the Parliament. Guomindang is prohibited and several of its partisans are stopped or killed. Sun flees in Japan, where it takes a long time to reorganize. It founds there finally the revolutionary Party. It turns over to China in 1918 and tries to form a rival government with Canton or Shanghai starting from 1920. Its lack of money, average soldiers and experiment mortgage these attempts and leave it at mercy local lords of the war. In 1922, agents of the Komintern propose their assistance to him and incite it to reform Guomindang. It is at that time that Sun formulates its ideology: “three Principles of the People”, democracy, socialism and nationalism anti-impérialiste. Sun is based in Canton, where it receives funds, military material and assistance of experts coming from Soviet Union. The Chinese Communist party is then combined in Guomindang.

Tchang Kaï-chek

Tchang Kaï-chek takes the reins of the party and decides to start the Expédition of North to seize the capacity. Before reaching Beijing, it eliminates the Communists, with Shanghai then with Hankou. In 1928, Guomindang seizes the capacity and founds a mode of sole party, mixing the Confucianisme with the Fascisme. The fight against the Communists intensifies and the latter must flee with the Shaanxi (the “Long walk”).

In order to fight against the offensive Japanese woman, Guomindang is led to be combined with her enemies of the day before, but this alliance remained always very loose. In 1945, in order to ensure the effective control of the national territory Kuomintang (which represented the Chinese government legitimates), the American organize an airlift making it possible to the nationalists to gain the race with the disarmament of the troops Japan eases and to make sure thus control of the territories previously occupied.

Thereafter, the army of Guomindang enters in open fight with the communist army of Mao Zedong, but the popular lack of support and the effectiveness of PCC and of its Soviet allies have as a consequence the victory of the Communists and the proclamation, on October 1st 1949, of the Popular republic of China (RPC) by Mao Zedong.

Guomindang takes refuge then with Taiwan, preserving only some islands near the continental territory of the China, and continuous to proclaim there only legitimate government of the China (Republic of China or nationalist China).

See the continuation of the history of Guomindang to the article Taiwan.

Guomindang, is a current political party of the République of China to Taiwan. With the Qinmindang (“left the people in first” or People First Party ), it forms what is known under the name of side-blue Coalition, less hostile with the idea of a reunification of the China than the side-green Coalition which is in favor of the independence of Taiwan.

Policy of reunification with continental China

In visit with the temple Tibetan Yonghe in Beijing on April 16th, 2006, the president of Guomindang signed various agreements of reunification in the form of autonomous province with China in 2005 and 2006. These agreements had nevertheless only one value symbolic system, Guomindang not being with the capacity with Taiwan during this period. The Popular republic of China, with all the same taken with the letter its agreements, and authorized the imports without taxation from Taiwan, and reautorized the Taiwaneses to come of his territory. Hitherto, the RPC did not recognize at all the state of Republic of China, it accepts it today as an autonomous province.

Democratization of Taiwan

After the period of democratization of Taiwan in the Eighties to 90, the guomindang with yielding the government to the opposition. However, following problems of corruption of the new government, Guomindang, with regained the majority of the areas to the regional elections of 2006, and should according to the surveys take again the government with the following national elections.

External bond

• http://www.kmt.org.tw official site of Kuomintang.

Simple: Kuomintang Zh-min-nan: Tiong-kok Kok-bîn-tóng Zh-yue: 中國國民黨

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