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It's actually a lot more complicated then that......But I have to apologize for using "PRC" as a pronoun for the communist party. (Since the ruling members didn't changed a bit.)

The situation during that age was there were numerous warlords in China, and Chiang Kai-shek was the leader of them all. Chiang usually deployed forces of the other warlords to fight with the communist party and seldom provided them with enough equipments and provisions to do the job. His aim was to destroy the communist party while weakening the warlords under his command. One warlord in particular (Zhang Xueliang) finally snapped, because his father was assassinated by Japan and his homeland Manchuria was also invaded by Japan. After being persuaded by the communist party, he kidnapped Chiang and forced him to halt the in-fighting and start dealing with the Japanese invasion.

So technically, it's quite an ugly piece of history........ Chiang somehow felt it's one of his most humiliating decisions in his life.