Negative Impacts on the Chinese Communist Party

Along the road of the Chinese Communist Party(CCP) rise to power, the CCP also had some negative aspects to their rise. During the take over, they began indoctrinating the local communities under their rule, this allowed them to gain more support to try and defeat the Japanese and the GuoMingDang(GMD), but at the cost of the freedom of the people, going against the ideology of the Communists. Landlords under the Communist rule, were harassed or even killed and had their land taken off them by the Communist’s. The CCP was more focused on expansion then fighting the Japanese, while it fought more than the GMD did, it only spent in Mao’s words “10% focussed on fighting the Japanese and 90% focussed on expansion and recruiting into the CCP.” This shows that the public goals the CCP had made of fighting the Japanese in Mao’s open letter to Chiang-Kai Shek, were of little priority to Mao. The CCP also had a lack of foreign support where as the GMD had large amounts, the GMD recieved help from not only the USSR but also the USA. When Japan surrendered they had surrendered to the GMD rather than the CCP, this shows how little international recognition the CCP had. The Americans also sent a mission to investigate and possibly help the CCP, but was later cancelled. These factors all show the negative aspect of the CCP.