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Kuomintang [ˈkwəʊˈmɪnˈtæŋ] n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the political party founded by Sun Yat-sen in 1911 and dominant in China from 1928 until 1949 under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek. Since then it has been the official ruling party of Taiwan [from Chinese (Mandarin): National People's Party, from kuo nation + min people + tang party] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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The People's Liberation Army successfully drove Chiang Kai-shek's ruling Nationalists, or Kuomintang (KMT), off the mainland to the island of Taiwan where they and their Western allies for many years kept alive the fiction that the KMT still governed the mainland. Under the one-party dictatorship of Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) rule from 1945 to 1987, the hegemonic discourses in Taiwan characterized both the form of economic development and the content of national identity as something immutably Chinese. Mainland Chinese news sources quoted the reported comments of Zhang Xiaoyan, the head of the Kuomintang (KMT), who described the aid package for Kosovo as "Taiwan's best move to facilitate its strategic security. |
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