Where Is China Going

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War,what kind of political result China wants to achieve was the core issue of politics from 1944-1946.The Communist Party of China(CCP),the Kuomintang(KMT)and the China Democratic League(CDL)put forward three different political propositions on this issue and each provided their own solutions.What is the difference between these three kinds of views,and what theme does the political disputes around these three kinds of propositions reflect? This is the focus of this article.The main work of this article is to compare and analyze these three political propositions.From 1944 to 1946,the political propositions of the CCP,the KMT and the CDL were put forward in turn at different stages of political disputes.Each stage corresponded to different political backgrounds,and the focal points of the disputes were also different.The first stage was the failure of the KMT on the frontal battlefield which triggered a change in the premise of the war of resistance.In other words,this change was due to the shift from “Issue of Unity” to “Issue of Democracy”.At this stage,the CCP put forward the proposition of “Coalition Government”,which caused the discourse confrontation between "Issue of Unity" and "issue of Democracy" in the National Council.In the second stage,with the intervention of international forces,the KMT and the CCP launched a new round of negotiations.In order to maintain oneparty dictatorship,the KMT successively put forward the political proposition of “Join the Government” and “Implement the Constitution in Advance”.The third stage occurred when the CPPCC meeting was convened.During the meeting,the three political parties held a big debate on the system of political party against a background of implementing the constitutionalism.The main content of this article is divided into four parts.The first part is that under the pressure of the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan,domestic political forces moved from division to unity.The KMT and the opposition parties,including the CCP,had established two forms of cooperation to achieve unity.When the KMT suffered a major defeat on the frontal battlefield,it was no longer the issue of unity but the issue of democracy that hindered the war of resistance.The CCP’s proposition of“Coalition Government” was launched under the theme of opposing the KMT dictatorship.The second part introduces Hurley’s involvement in the negotiations between the KMT and the CCP on behalf of international forces.The KMT put forward the proposition of "Join the Government" in opposition to the "Coalition Government".Although “Implement the Constitution in Advance” was in the name of constitutionalism,the KMT had exposed the essence of maintaining dictatorship when it came to the issue of NPC deputies’ qualifications.Therefore,this proposition was opposed by the CCP and the CDL.The third part analyzes two changes in the political stand of the CDL and its proposition about the parliamentarism put forward at the CPPCC meeting.The CDL came into being when the opposition between the KMT and the CCP had developed into a special period.In the later political development,the stand of the Democratic League changed from coordination to independence twice.At the CPPCC meeting,the CDL argued with the KMT and the CCP on the issue of the political system,and it insisted the proposition of parliamentary politics.The fourth part is the conclusion.The political disputes of 1944-1946 were the differences between the three political parties after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan.The essence of the political disputes is the confrontation of three doctrines.The KMT’s dictatorship was finally overthrown,and it ended its rule on the mainland because of the lack of representation of the KMT as a whole.The KMT cannot prove itself as a representative of all the nationals,but it stubbornly insisted on the one-party dictatorship which eventually let it lose the legitimacy of ruling.Under the union of the CCP and the NDL,the KMT’s rule was finally brought to an end.