Editing Kuomintang (section)

=== Tibet Improvement Party ===
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The [[Tibet Improvement Party]] was founded by [[Pandatsang Rapga]], a pro-ROC and pro-KMT [[Kham]]pa revolutionary, who worked against the [[14th Dalai Lama]]'s Tibetan Government in [[Lhasa (prefecture-level city)|Lhasa]]. Rapga borrowed Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People doctrine and translated his political theories into the Tibetan language, hailing it as the best hope for Asian peoples against imperialism. Rapga stated that "the Sanmin Zhuyi was intended for all peoples under the domination of foreigners, for all those who had been deprived of the rights of man. But it was conceived especially for the Asians. It is for this reason that I translated it. At that time, a lot of new ideas were spreading in Tibet," during an interview in 1975 by Heather Stoddard.<ref>{{cite book|author=Gray Tuttle |title=Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KlOEi9C4T3QC&pg=PA152|access-date=27 December 2011|edition=illustrated|year=2007|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-13447-7|page=152|url-status=live|archive-date=4 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104141628/http://books.google.com/books?id=KlOEi9C4T3QC&pg=PA152}}</ref> He wanted to destroy the feudal government in Lhasa, in addition to modernizing and secularizing Tibetan society. The ultimate goal of the party was the overthrow of the Dalai Lama's regime, and the creation of a Tibetan Republic which would be an [[autonomous Republic]] within the ROC.<ref>{{cite book|author=Melvyn C. Goldstein|title=A History of Modern Tibet, 1913–1951: The Demise of the Lamaist state|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Upwq0I-wm7YC&pg=PA450|access-date=27 December 2011|volume=1 |year=1991|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-07590-0|page=450|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104143003/http://books.google.com/books?id=Upwq0I-wm7YC&pg=PA450|archive-date=4 January 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT funded the party and their efforts to build an army to battle the Dalai Lama's government.<ref>{{cite book|author1-link=Lin Hsiao-ting|author=Hsiao-ting Lin|title=Modern China's Ethnic Frontiers: A Journey to the West |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rsLQdBUgyMUC&pg=PA95|access-date=27 December 2011|volume=67 |series=Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia|year=2010|publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-415-58264-3|page=95 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610194850/https://books.google.com/books?id=rsLQdBUgyMUC&pg=PA95|archive-date=10 June 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> The KMT was extensively involved in the Kham region, recruiting the Khampa people to both oppose the Dalai Lama's Tibetan government, fight the Communist Red Army, and crush the influence of local Chinese warlords who did not obey the central government.