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Challenges to Authoritarian Rule, Theme 4: Challenges to Authoritarian…

- - - - directly threatened the chinese state
      - china was not initially participating in the conflict
    - - "established another base in the military cordon it was establishing in China, in a ring from Korea to Southeast Asia"
      - allowed for nationalist Taiwan to linger on, acting as a threat on their doorstep
      - "China Lobby" pushing for support for Chang Kai-Shek
      - isolated china in the geographic area besides russia and north korea
- - - - "Communist preparations to invade Taiwan"
      - "Nationalist army units crossed the persumably "neutralized" Taiwan strait to conduct comando attacks on the Chinese coast"
    - - "United States Seventh Fleet to "neutralize" the Taiwan strait"
    - - Kai-Shek/Taiwan claimed global legitimacy over China
  - - - "Tibeten revolt of 1959"
      - "Leaders... were determined to reassert Chinese control over Tibet for both nationalist and strategic reasons"
      - "1951 agreement which recognized Chinese control while providing a large meadure of Tibetan cultural and sociopolitical autonomy
      - "reestablishment of Chinese control in Tibet posed not a military problem but rather a cultural and political one.
- - - - Landlords
      - KMT allies