On January 13, 1988, Chiang Ching-kuo died of illness in Taipei Hospital at the age of 78, and as soon as the news was announced, it caused a huge shock on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. At the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Deng Xiaoping listened to the work reports of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council and the Beijing Group on Taiwan, and then when talking about Chiang Ching-kuo's death, he could not help but sigh: It is a pity that the third Kuomintang-Communist cooperation has been held! So why did Deng Xiaoping make such an exclamation? What kind of story happened between him and Chiang Ching-kuo?
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In the modern and modern history of our country, the two parties have cooperated only twice, the first during the Northern Expedition and the second during the War of Resistance Against Japan. However, after the founding of New China, Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan in a hurry, and has since stood on the opposite side of the mainland, so the third cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party is far away.
The turning point occurred in 1978, when Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek had passed away, and the "successors" of the two men also began to officially appear on the stage of history, they were Deng Xiaoping and Chiang Ching-kuo, because adhering to Chairman Mao's last wish and carrying the ideal of reunifying the two sides of the strait, Deng Xiaoping had always been committed to communicating with Chiang Ching-kuo during his administration, and there were differences and cooperation between the two men, and they often secretly competed.
The time also dates back to 1926, when Deng Xiaoping, who was studying in France, was being monitored and tracked by the Paris authorities because he repeatedly organized the Chinese to resist the imperialist massacre of Chinese people, in order to ensure his safety, the European branch of the Communist Party of China decided to secretly send people to Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow, so after taking the train to many countries, on January 7, 1926, Deng Xiaoping finally arrived at his destination smoothly and began his short study life, and it was during this period that he met Chiang Ching-kuo.
Chiang Ching-kuo arrived at Sun Yat-sen University a few months before Deng Xiaoping, and after entering the school, he was very fond of participating in various political activities held by the school, and also joined the Chinese Communist Youth League, and then with his talent, he wrote many excellent articles, so he was promoted to the editor of "Red Wall".
Because of his high level of education and experience in revolutionary struggle, Deng Xiaoping was soon recommended to become the leader of the CPC party group in the seventh group of the second class, at that time, although he and Chiang Ching-kuo were different classes, they had the opportunity to be in the same group, and when they learned that Chiang Ching-kuo was a member of the editorial board of "Red Wall", Deng Xiaoping often exchanged writing experiences with him, and both of them admired each other.
In the future study time, Deng Xiaoping and Chiang Ching-kuo also had a lot of personal relations, after all, there are many common topics, and Chiang Ching-kuo has long regarded Deng Xiaoping as a big brother in his heart, and will maintain the same view with him on many issues.
In 1926, Chiang Kai-shek launched the "Zhongshan Ship Incident" that shocked China and foreign countries, the impact was very bad, after the news reached Sun Yat-sen University, Chiang Ching-kuo's situation began to become more and more difficult, he was often denounced by the students of the same school, and could not argue with it, and felt very wronged in his heart, so he could only go to Deng Xiaoping to talk to him.
Deng Xiaoping also gave a very pertinent answer, saying that Chiang Kai-shek was anti-communist and anti-people, undermined the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and should be condemned, since Chiang Ching-kuo could not choose his own family, the future road must also be on his own, it is better to draw a clear line with his father's mistakes and truly stand on the side of the proletariat.
After hearing these words, Chiang Ching-kuo was deeply touched and admired Deng Xiaoping even more, but as the domestic situation became more and more turbulent, the days of the two men at the same window did not last long, and they were about to come to an end, and Deng Xiaoping wanted to return to China to participate in the revolutionary struggle, and as for Chiang Ching-kuo, he had to wait until he officially graduated and could not personally send his good friend away.
At that time, after Deng Xiaoping left, Chiang Ching-kuo's situation was even more difficult, because not long after the Zhongshan incident, Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12 Coup" at home, many Communists were brutally killed, and after the news reached Sun Yat-sen University, Chiang Ching-kuo once again became the target of public criticism, and he immediately made his attitude clear to everyone, claiming that he was the son of the Chinese Socialist Youth League, that revolution was his only task, that he wanted to overthrow Chiang Kai-shek, and that he had to draw a clear line with him.
Even so, Chiang Ching-kuo was not able to return to China smoothly, and was kept as a hostage until 1937, when Chiang Ching-kuo returned to his homeland after a twelve-year absence accompanied by his wife and children.
After that, the world situation changed, and the domestic war did not stop, until 1949, when New China was officially founded and Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan in a hurry, and Deng Xiaoping and Chiang Ching-kuo stood in opposing camps. Earlier, because Chiang Ching-kuo and Chiang Kai-shek stood on different positions and expressed that they wanted to draw a clear line with them, the relationship between the two fell to a freezing point after returning to China, but after all, they were father and son, and Chiang Kai-shek did not care about his previous suspicions and did everything possible to correct Chiang Ching-kuo's thinking, and under his vigorous cultivation, Chiang Ching-kuo was finally expected to take on a great responsibility. As for Deng Xiaoping, because he had made outstanding achievements in many wars earlier, his fame was getting bigger and bigger, and when new China was founded, he had the opportunity to enter the central government and was highly valued by Chairman Mao.
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Time came to 1978, when Chairman Mao and Chiang Kai-shek had both passed away, and Chiang Ching-kuo and Deng Xiaoping also officially stood on the stage of history, the former was officially elected "president" in Taiwan, and the latter came back again after experiencing three ups and three downs, becoming the core of the central leadership.
After taking office, Deng Xiaoping focused on handling many things, and in view of the fact that the Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, as well as Hong Kong and Macao compatriots and overseas Chinese compatriots, were very eager for the two sides of the strait to work together again, he responded quickly to the Taiwan issue and put forward the principle of peaceful reunification and one country, two systems.
So how did Chiang Ching-kuo on the other side of the mainland react? As early as the time of Chairman Mao's death, he guessed that his old classmate Deng Xiaoping would make a comeback, and the facts were exactly as he expected, and considering that Sino-US relations were likely to ease up in the future, Chiang Ching-kuo obstructed it through various means.
However, since sino-US relations have gradually eased, and the mainland has officially issued a "Letter to Taiwan Compatriots," which again mentions the third Kuomintang-Communist cooperation, chiang ching-kuo began to hesitate, because he did not know what Beijing's intentions were, nor did he predict whether it would be beneficial or detrimental to Taiwan if economic and cultural exchanges between the two sides of the strait were expanded.
However, due to the compulsion of the situation, the United States and Taiwan broke off diplomatic relations, chiang ching-kuo's Taiwan authorities relaxed their policies and allowed the people on both sides of the strait to have more exchanges, and with the overtures of the Taiwan authorities, the Chinese Communists continued to issue nine principles, and Deng Xiaoping even ordered the withdrawal of the troops stationed in Fujian.
Since 1981, in order to speed up cross-strait reunification, Deng Xiaoping has always shown his overtures to Chiang Ching-kuo, first of all from the aspect of family affection; Chiang Ching-kuo is a great filial piety, and although he is in Taiwan, he is always concerned about his hometown, so in order to reassure Chiang Ching-kuo, Deng Xiaoping ordered the local government and local government to repair the Chiang family's house and the graves of his mother and grandmother in a timely manner.
At this time, Chiang Ching-kuo's attitude had eased a lot, and he also believed that it was time to negotiate with the mainland, but there was still a lack of a "messenger" in the middle, so Singapore's prime minister Lee Kuan Yew appeared, he had a good relationship with Chiang Ching-kuo, and when the two lived together, they often discussed cross-strait issues, so he also had this qualification to speak on behalf of Chiang Ching-kuo.
After meeting with Deng Xiaoping, Lee Kuan Yew also offered to let him have a good understanding of the situation in Taiwan, and the other party hoped to greet this former "Moscow classmate" through him.
In 1983, as Deng Xiaoping's reform and opening up achieved wide results, Chiang Ching-kuo saw it in his eyes and wanted more and more in his heart to promote the integration of the two sides of the strait; by 1987, the Kuomintang had successively lifted the ban on party reporting, and more and more islanders had begun to travel to the mainland. In 1988, Chiang Ching-kuo ordered the formal end of the ban on newspapers, followed by more than two dozen political organizations that formed political parties, and the situation on both sides of the strait was very good.
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What no one expected was that on January 13, Chiang Ching-kuo suddenly died of illness, and as soon as the news was announced, it caused tremendous repercussions on both sides of the strait, especially Deng Xiaoping, who urgently convened an enlarged meeting of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee and listened to the work reports of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council and the Beijing Taiwan Affairs Group Now that this ambition has not yet been realized, it is a pity that Chiang Ching-kuo has passed away.
So why did Deng Xiaoping say that? Mainly because lee teng-hui, Chiang Ching-kuo's next successor, many people may wonder when they see this, why did Chiang Ching-kuo not choose the descendants of the Chiang family to take over his place? In fact, when he found that his time was short, Chiang Ching-kuo began to select a successor of the Kuomintang, and for various reasons, he did not choose the descendants of the Chiang family, but chose the henchmen he had cultivated, and soon he set his sights on Lee Teng-hui.
Lee Teng-hui gave the impression in his early days that he had no intention of engaging in politics and was bent on doing a good job in agriculture, but when he had the opportunity, he would not refuse; after entering Chiang Ching-kuo's vision through layers of relations, his position rose steadily, and what surprised people was that Lee Teng-hui still had a history of underground communist party members, but for various reasons, when he returned to Taiwan, he quit the party because of differences with other comrades, who ever thought that lee teng-hui had joined the Kuomintang camp again to this day.
Of course, Lee Teng-hui did not want to mention too much about this past, because he was afraid that he would be imprisoned because of this, but fortunately, with Chiang Ching-kuo's attention and his original unobtrusive style of handling things, Chiang Ching-kuo trusted him more and more, and then even transferred him to the position of mayor and vice president of Taipei. However, after he took office, the descendants of the Chiang family were squeezed out one after another, and they never had the opportunity to ask about politics again, and the Chiang family dynasty slowly declined from then on.
After dealing with chiang's family, Lee Teng-hui did not govern in the way Chiang Ching-kuo had done before, but on the contrary, he was very different, formulated a series of erroneous policies, and engaged in various small moves, so that Taiwan, which should have been gradually prosperous, developed slowly, and the Taiwan authorities became increasingly chaotic.
As for how to view cross-strait relations, Lee Teng-hui also has an unclear attitude, although he once said: "China's history has not abandoned Taiwan, how can Taiwan break away from Chinese mainland?" He also once said that "there is no issue of national and cultural identity between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, but only a dispute between system and way of life." In reality, however, there is no sincere commitment to cross-strait reunification.
It is precisely for this reason that deng xiaoping, after learning of Chiang Ching-kuo's death, knew that cooperation between the KUOMINTK and the COMMUNIST party would be difficult to achieve, and that Taiwan would no longer be able to emerge from a leader who insisted on cross-strait reunification like himself.