The Soviet Twins Abroad: The KMT and the CCP

In its propaganda, the Communist Party has long labeled the Kuomintang with several tags: pro-American, Westernized, foreign influence. In its narrative, the KMT are compradors and traitors to the nation, while the Communist Party is the independent and autonomous "orthodox" force. But when we truly examine history, these labels are more fitting for the Communist Party itself.

The KMT's Soviet Heritage

The KMT's turning point was not receiving American support, but Sun Yat-sen's acceptance of comprehensive Soviet transformation. In 1923, Sun reached an agreement with Comintern representative Borodin, proposing "alliance with Russia and accommodation of Communists." The establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy, the embryonic party-state system, and military-political training models were all deeply marked with Moscow's imprint. Without Soviet funding and advisors, there would have been no Northern Expedition or later national power.

American involvement came much later. It wasn't until the Anti-Japanese War that the United States began large-scale aid to the KMT, by which time the KMT's organization was already a Sovietized party-state system. Calling it "pro-American" is simply the Communist Party deliberately misplacing time, using later facts to erase earlier origins.

The CCP's Spy Origins

In contrast, the Communist Party's lineage is even more thorough. The 1921 First National Congress of the CCP was essentially a Comintern spy operation: funding, documents, and cadre training all came from the Soviet Union. From the beginning, it was not an independent national party, but a proxy branch of the Soviet Union in East Asia.

As for "Westernization." The KMT imitated Japan's national model, which was still East Asian experience; the Communist Party copied Europe's Marx, Lenin, and Stalin. If we compare, who is more Westernized, the answer is obvious.

The Reversal of Labels

Thus, we see an irony: the Communist Party accuses the KMT of being "pro-American," "Westernized," and "foreign influence," when these are actually the most accurate descriptions of itself. It needs to first throw these accusations at its opponent to make itself appear more "national" and "orthodox." This is a typical projection: accuse others of what you yourself are.

The Self-Entertaining Bureaucratic Theater

The question is: does the Communist Party really fear Chinese people exposing it? Actually, no. Even if ordinary people knew the truth, they have no organizational conditions to resist, at most cursing a few words in teahouses. This regime understands this well.

So why bother constructing these labels? The answer is: the system needs this meaningless output. The Communist Party is a vast bureaucratic machine, and the machine must continuously produce slogans, enemies, and labels. Even if the content is empty, even if there's no audience, it must exist. Otherwise, subordinates can't show loyalty, and superiors can't demonstrate the machine is operating.

This is like writing reports no one reads, hanging slogans no one sees. Whether it's meaningful doesn't matter; what matters is that the process must happen. The Communist Party calling the KMT "foreign influence" is precisely this kind of self-entertaining political work.

Conclusion

The KMT and CCP are not the opposition between a local party and a foreign force, but twins manufactured by the Soviet Union in East Asia. In the end, the Communist Party survived, but threw the accusation of "foreign influence" onto its opponent. What's more absurd is that these labels aren't meant to deceive the people, but are products of the bureaucratic machine's self-performance. A regime doesn't need to convince anyone, nor does it fear being exposed by anyone; it just needs to continuously produce noise to maintain operation.