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Shanghai massacre ruptures Nationalist-Communist alliance
📅 12 April 1927Chiang Kai-shek’s forces and allied groups violently suppressed Communist and labor organizations in Shanghai. The purge ended the first United Front and drove the Chinese Communist Party toward armed...
Shanghai massacre shatters the first united-front strategy
📅 12 April 1927Kuomintang forces under Chiang Kai-shek attacked Communists and labor activists in Shanghai, ending the alliance that had structured the first united front. Soviet and Comintern policy had sought to...
Nationalist forces begin a violent purge in Shanghai
📅 12 April 1927Chiang Kai-shek's forces and allied armed groups attacked Communist and labor organizations in Shanghai. The purge, remembered as the April 12 Incident or Shanghai Massacre, expanded into...
Xi’an Incident forces a united front against Japan
📅 12 December 1936Generals Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng detained Chiang Kai-shek to press him to prioritize resistance to Japan. The crisis led to renewed cooperation between Nationalists and Communists, although...
Full-scale civil war resumes
📅 26 June 1946Fighting between Nationalist and Communist forces escalated after the fragile postwar truce collapsed. The civil war determined who would govern mainland China and shaped the geopolitical division...
Taiwan ends martial law
📅 15 July 1987President Chiang Ching-kuo lifted martial law in Taiwan after 38 years. The decision followed sustained opposition organizing and opened a transition toward competitive politics; this history...
Taiwan holds presidential and legislative elections
📅 13 January 2024Voters in Taiwan elected Lai Ching-te president and chose a new Legislative Yuan. The election took place amid pressure from Beijing and debate within Taiwan over identity, economic ties and security....
CPC invites KMT chair Cheng Li-wun to visit mainland China
📅 30 March 2026The CPC Central Committee and Xi invited Kuomintang chair Cheng Li-wun to visit the mainland. The invitation opened a party channel across the Taiwan Strait amid ongoing political disagreement over...
KMT chair begins mainland visit
📅 7 April 2026Cheng Li-wun began a mainland visit after accepting the CPC invitation. The visit brought party leaders into direct contact, but it did not constitute an agreement on cross-strait political status....