Editing Chiang Ching-kuo (section)

===Hostage claim===
[[Jung Chang]] and [[Jon Halliday]] claim Chiang Kai-shek allowed the Communists to escape on the 1934–1935 [[Long March]] because he wanted Stalin to return Chiang Ching-kuo.<ref name="SMH">{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/a-swans-little-book-of-ire/2005/10/07/1128563003642.html |title=A swan's little book of ire |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=8 October 2005 |access-date=8 December 2007 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924204245/http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/a-swans-little-book-of-ire/2005/10/07/1128563003642.html |url-status=live }}</ref> This is contradicted by Chiang Kai-shek's diary, "It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son."<ref name="Jay Taylor 2000 59"/><ref name="Jonathan Fenby 2005 205"/> He refused to negotiate for a prisoner swap of his son in exchange for the Chinese Communist Party leader (Zhou Enlai).<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/lastempressmadam00paku_0 |url-access=registration |quote=It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son. |title=The last empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the birth of modern China |first=Hannah |last=Pakula |year=2009 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |page=[https://archive.org/details/lastempressmadam00paku_0/page/247 247] |isbn=978-1-4391-4893-8 |access-date=28 June 2010}}</ref> Again in 1937 he stated about his son: "I would rather have no offspring than sacrifice our nation's interests." Chiang had absolutely no intention of stopping the war against the Communists.<ref name="Jay Taylor 2000 74"/> 
Chang and Halliday likewise claim that Chiang Ching-kuo was "kidnapped" in spite of the evidence that he went to study in the Soviet Union with his father's own approval.<ref name="SMH"/>