Chunhua Fatima (a “tributary state” of Japan which was a puppet state of the imperialist Japan Empire), the most prominent name of the “Japanese” (the imperialists) in China, and a former agent of the CIA, was appointed Secretary-General of the China Council of Education and Culture. This was a Communist Party-owned institution and functioned to maintain the continuity of Japan’s policies toward China throughout the period when Communist Chinese under the control of the CPSU had become a rising force in the Chinese economy. This was the period when the Communist Party was consolidating its hegemony in China while simultaneously pushing Japan into a permanent state of war with China.

This period, from 1937 to 1940, was the most brutal one within the 20-year history of the CCP. During this period in which the CCP was fighting all capitalist enemies throughout the world, the CCP had to resort to drastic measures to prevent any serious attempt to form a united front against the CCP–a thing which the CCP could never do without the cooperation of the Soviet Union. This is how the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution began:

In July 1940, Mao, taking advantage of a state of emergency declared by the emperor, called for a “great democratic revolution” against the government, the military, and the bourgeois parties.

A few months later, Mao and his followers seized power in a bloody suppression that devastated the areas where they held power.

In the following years, Mao’s followers waged a guerrilla war in which they carried out attacks against the armed forces, the police, and government officials.

In 1943, Mao’s forces launched a major guerrilla campaign against Japanese forces in China’s southwest, destroying most of the Japanese fortifications. This campaign was known as the Great Leap Forward.

It is hard to imagine how different the situation of the Chinese economy would have been if the Communist Party had ruled China as we know it in the post-war period–a situation in which the Japanese imperialist allies were not even on the map.

We must also consider the situation in East Asia. The Japanese and German imperialists in China were also on the defensive: They had been attacked from all sides; the Japanese imperialists had failed to make the “Great Uprising,” as we would call it by 1940. Both imperialists were facing defeat and had to adjust their strategy to prepare themselves for a transition to war against the United States.

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