From the September 18 Incident to the Xi'an Incident, Japanese imperialism constantly tested the bottom line of the Nationalist government, because the existence of pro-Japanese forces within the Kuomintang made it impossible to form a unified joint force within the Kuomintang. The Kuomintang's policy of non-resistance increased the ambition of Japanese imperialism to invade China in an all-round way, which directly led to the eventual outbreak of the Lugou Bridge Incident.
From 1933 to 1936, the Communist Party of China repeatedly issued a unanimous call for resistance. It was not until the outbreak of the Xi'an Incident in 1936 that the Kuomintang passively accepted the demand to stop the civil war and fight a full-scale war of resistance.
Because of the pressure of Japan's all-round invasion of China and the rising enthusiasm of the Communist Party and the people of the whole country for the War of Resistance, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party reached an agreement to stop the civil war and jointly resist the war. However, in order to achieve the goal of an all-out war of resistance in which "people are young and old, and the land is not divided into north and south," the Communist Party still has a lot to do.
The all-round invasion of China by Japanese imperialism has once again put the Chinese nation at a critical moment of national subjugation and extinction; it is impossible to rely solely on the government and the army to win victory in the War of Resistance; there must be a united front, a program of action, a change in the nature of the Kuomintang government's reaction to the people, a return to the path of Mr. Zhongshan's Three People's Principles, and a suspension of the confiscation of landlord land by the Communist Party; only in this way can we unite all the forces that can be united against Japanese imperialism.
In the first stage of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the Kuomintang held high the banner of Mr. Zhongshan's Three People's Principles, the Kuomintang controlled the army, the Communist Party's political propaganda, the equality of officers and soldiers, and the integration of the military and the people, and the Kuomintang formed a united front, set off the first climax of the Chinese revolution, and won a major victory in the Northern Expedition.
Because of the opposition of the conservative faction within the Kuomintang, as well as the fact that the Communist Party did not have its own revolutionary armed forces at that time, coupled with external troubles taking advantage of the situation, it broke the united front and led to the defeat of the revolution. Since then, the Kuomintang has been reduced to a comprador party of foreign forces in China, representing the interests of a very small number of imperialists, feudalism and bureaucracy.
In the midst of old China's internal and external troubles, Japanese imperialism launched an all-out invasion of China, and in order to concentrate all our efforts against Japanese imperialism with the same enemy, it is necessary to organize the people of the whole country and make the people of the whole country realize that the War of Resistance is closely related to everyone, so that the strength of the whole country can be pooled to fight the war of resistance in an all-round way.
In his will, Mr. Nakayama mentioned the awakening of the people, after the first rupture of Kuomintang-Communist cooperation, when the Kuomintang and external forces merged, the Kuomintang became a tool party of external forces, and also became a reactionary party that compromised externally and suppressed the revolution and the people internally. In order to concentrate the strength of the whole country in the all-round war of resistance, it is necessary to reorganize the Kuomintang government organs, democratic policies, finance, economy, education, and other systems; we must change the mode of relying solely on the government and the army to resist the war, and we must add everything from all parties, factions, all walks of life, and all armies to the united front, so as to counteract the forces of Japanese imperialism to the greatest extent possible, and in order to finally win the strength of ourselves and the enemy.
The facts of the War of Resistance Against Japan also prove the Chairman's judgment that in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Kuomintang relied solely on the government and the army to resist Japanese imperialism, and although it achieved some victories, it also lost a large area of land. Because of the restraint of the Communist Party and the people behind enemy lines, the great depletion of the strength of Japanese imperialism also reduced the pressure on the frontal battlefield of the Kuomintang.
The situation in the War of Resistance Against Japan was just a little better, because of the Kuomintang's comprador nature and the reactionary nature of suppressing the people, the Kuomintang continued to seek peace with Japanese imperialism externally and engaged in military friction with the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army internally. The comprador character and reactionary nature of the Kuomintang in disguise slowed down the time for a comprehensive victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Facts speak louder than words, and after the victory of the all-out War of Resistance, the Kuomintang, a reactionary party representing imperialism and the interests of a very small minority, was eventually replaced by the Communist Party, which represented the interests of the overwhelming majority of the people.