Chiang Kai Shek
"Communism is a disease of the heart, the Japanese are but a disease of the skin"
After Sun's death, Chiang Kai Shek became the leader of the KMT. Unlike Sun, he expelled Chinese communists from the party and led a successful unification of China. During Chiang's ruling, there were two main threats to his party the Japanese, and the Communists. Chiang initially focused on the communist threat rather than confront Japan directly, a choice that angered many of his supporters. Ultimately, he betrayed the First United Front by purging the Communist, and broke the Second United Front of 1941 whilst there were foreign enemies.