ABSTRACT
Most of the Nationalist armies were either lost on the battlefield or had surrendered to the Chinese Communists. Chiang Kai-shek, who remained head of the Kuomintang (KMT), was asked by the Emergency Committee of the KMT and the Legislative Yuan to resume the presidency. The Central Reform Committee soon drafted various reform plans on organization, discipline, ideological reindoctrination, and the removal of all evil practices among party members. The Nationalist government’s security apparatus was notorious for its motley character and its abuse of privilege. Each security office administered its own affairs without coordination and at times competed for power with others. The United States also rendered its support to the Nationalist government in the international arena. After 1950, the Soviet Union began to challenge the Nationalist government’s position as representative of China at the United Nations.
