... inflation during the last days of Nationalist rule had arrested commerce and destroyed confidence in the financial system. Dams, irrigation works, and canals had fallen into disrepair, and railroad lines had been cut and recut by contending armies. The population, having suffered enormous casualties as a result of war and natural disasters, was disheartened, famished and exhausted. However, despite ... period, Chiang undertook a move that provided the Communists with a decisive advantage alter. Defying American advice, Chiang sent his strongest troops deep into Manchuria, thereby strain...

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