Chinese Civil War

In 1946, a civil war broke out in china between the communists (CCP) and the Nationalists (KMT). The Communist Party was led my Mao Zedong and the Nationalist party was led by Chiang Kai-shek. The outcome resulted in the Communists defeating the Nationalists in 1949, and as a result the Communists became the official founders of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing where the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) was held. This represented the new Communist government. While the Communists were in Beijing, the Nationalists fled to Taiwan. Although the Communists won, many foreign powers saw the government in Taiwan to be the “real” government of China. The war in a sense was a beneficial situation for both sides.