Editing Kuomintang (section)

=== Anti-separatism ===
[[File:Republic of China Administrative Subdivisions.svg|thumb|The claimed sovereign borders of the Republic of China, as inherited from the Great Qing in 1912 and claimed by the Kuomintang.]]
The KMT, being anti-separatist, claims sovereignty over [[Outer Mongolia]] and [[Tuva]] as well as the territories of the modern People's Republic and Republic of China.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/10/08/2003425320|title= Ma refers to China as ROC territory in magazine interview|date= 8 October 2008|access-date= 26 May 2020|archive-date= 25 May 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200525131807/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/10/08/2003425320|url-status= live|website=Taipei Times|author-last1=Ko|author-first1=Shu-Ling}}</ref>

KMT Muslim General Ma Bufang waged war on the invading Tibetans during the [[Sino-Tibetan War of 1930–1932|Sino-Tibetan War]] with his Muslim army, and he repeatedly crushed Tibetan revolts during bloody battles in Qinghai provinces. Ma Bufang was fully supported by President Chiang Kai-shek, who ordered him to prepare his Muslim army to invade Tibet several times and threatened aerial bombardment on the Tibetans. With support from the KMT, Ma Bufang repeatedly attacked the Tibetan area of [[Golog]] seven times during the [[Golok conflicts (1917–1949)|KMT Pacification of Qinghai]], eliminating thousands of Tibetans.{{Sfn|Bulag|2002|p=273}}

General [[Ma Fuxiang]], the chairman of the [[Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission]] stated that Mongolia and Tibet were an integral part of the Republic of China, arguing:
<blockquote>Our Party [the Guomindang] takes the development of the weak and small and resistance to the strong and violent as our sole and most urgent task. This is even more true for those groups which are not of our kind [Ch. fei wo zulei zhe]. Now the people of Mongolia and Tibet are closely related to us, and we have great affection for one another: our common existence and common honor already have a history of over a thousand years. [...] Mongolia and Tibet's life and death are China's life and death. China absolutely cannot cause Mongolia and Tibet to break away from China's territory, and Mongolia and Tibet cannot reject China to become independent. At this time, there is not a single nation on earth except China that will sincerely develop Mongolia and Tibet.{{Sfn|Lipman|2004|p=266}}</blockquote>

Ma Bufang also crushed Mongol separatist movements, abducting the Genghis Khan Shrine and attacking Tibetan Buddhist Temples like Labrang, and keeping a tight control over them through the Kokonur God ceremony.{{Sfn|Bulag|2002|p=51}}<ref>{{cite book|author-first1=Paul Kocot|author-last1=Nietupski|title=Labrang: a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery at the Crossroads of Four Civilizations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xGvECiS-uEgC&pg=PA35|access-date=28 June 2010|year=1999|publisher=Snow Lion Publications|isbn=978-1-55939-090-3|page=35|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205084013/https://books.google.com/books?id=xGvECiS-uEgC&pg=PA35|archive-date=5 February 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>