Review of “The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist
Rulers,” by Richard McGregor  Despite the claims of mythologists
from both sides, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) were created in their modern form at the
same place, at the same time, by the same people. The
(re)creation of both parties was sponsored and guided by the
Soviets as part of a strategy to throw out the western Empires
from the East. As originally intended, the KMT would be the
ruling party of a united China that would sustain the national
resistance to the encroachments of Britain, France, Germany,
Japan, and other Empires. The CCP would serve the dual roal of
’tiling’ the internal dynamics of China in the direction of the
Soviet Union, while also serving as a mechanism for the Soviet
Union to guarantee that restive leftists stay with the KMT, even
when their short-term interest would lead them into an alliance
with the west against the KMT.  As Lenin wrote in “The Socialist
Revolution and the Right