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Kuomintang[edit]  During the time of warlords Sun Yat-sen kept
the idea of a united Chinese republic alive. Sun's goal was to
establish a rival government in Guangzhou, southern China, and
go from there to fight against the warlords in the North and
their Beiyang government. Upon his return from exile in 1917,
Sun revived his banned nationalist party, the Kuomintang, but
this time he gave it the new name, the Kuomintang of China. His
plan was that after defeating the warlords the party would guide
China until the country would be ready to move to democracy. The
rival government led by Sun, however, was at a disadvantage
against the warlords from a military point of view. Despite his
requests for aid from the West, the badly needed financial and
arm support never arrived in the country. In the 1920s the
Kuomintang eventually received h