The Absent Legitimacy: The Spy Origins of CCP Power

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was never a natural outgrowth of Chinese society. It was a foreign-made proxy, born in Moscow's Comintern, funded, instructed, and supervised by Soviet agents. From day one, its survival depended on outside powers, not on any "people's revolution."

1. A Soviet Spy Branch

The CCP was created as a local arm of the Comintern. Its money, strategy, and doctrine came directly from Moscow. It was never about "Chinese peasants rising up," but about the Soviets planting an intelligence outpost in East Asia.

2. Soviet Gifts: Manchuria and Heavy Industry

In 1945, the Soviet Red Army crushed the Kwantung Army in Manchuria. When they withdrew, they stripped some factories for themselves and handed the rest to the CCP—railways, arsenals, mines, and industrial plants. The CCP did not build; it merely inherited.

3. Japanese Technicians Recycled

While others repatriated Japanese POWs, the CCP absorbed them. Doctors, engineers, and technicians who once served the Imperial Army were repurposed as "liberation" assets. This wasn't reconciliation—it was ruthless opportunism. The CCP would use anyone, enemy or ally, if it helped cement power.

4. America's Misjudgment

Western journalists and observers, dazzled by the "Yan'an myth," painted the CCP as a peasant-based, idealistic force. In reality, America's fight against Japan inadvertently cleared the stage for the CCP, while the true Asian power—Japan—was destroyed.

5. Chiang's Isolation

Chiang Kai-shek insisted on preserving the old Chinese frontiers—Manchuria, Xinjiang, Tibet. That put him at odds with everyone:

• The Soviets, who wanted China fragmented.
• The Americans, who feared a too-strong China.
• The British, who wanted no Asian order beyond their control.

Chiang ended up isolated, while the CCP reaped the spoils without paying the cost.

6. No Principles, Only Survival

The CCP's one true skill was being shamelessly flexible:

• One day it wore the mask of Marxism.
• The next day, it claimed to embody Chinese nationalism.
• After the Soviet collapse, it reinvented itself again as the "last true Communist Party."

Its ideology was never belief—it was camouflage. The only principle was to keep power at any price.

7. Conclusion: Power by Accident

CCP power was not the result of faith, nationalism, or legitimacy. It was luck plus opportunism:

• Soviet support,
• Japan's defeat,
• America's misjudgment,
• Chiang's isolation.

The CCP's real uniqueness lies in this: it dares to have no principles at all. It will sell out Communism, sell out the Chinese nation, sell out allies, even sell out Asia's future—so long as it keeps control.

That is why the CCP has no legitimacy. It was never "chosen" by history. It was an accident, a byproduct of foreign intrigue and ruthless deceit.