"Which are you, my subordinate or my enemy? If my subordinate, you should obey my orders. If you are my enemy you should kill me without delay. You should choose either of these two steps, but say nothing more for I will not listen to you...My head may be cut off, my body may be mutilated, but I must preserve the honour of the Chinese people, and must uphold law and order....If I allow the honour of the 400,000,000 people whom I represent to be degraded by accepting any demands to save my own life, we should lose our national existence....Why don't you kill me now?"
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Military leaders from ChinaHeads of stateChairpersons of KuomintangPresidents of the Republic of China on TaiwanPremiers of the Republic of China on Taiwan
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Chiang initially refusing to submit to Zhang Xueliang's demands that he cooperate with the Communists in order to fight the Japanese
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Chiang Kai-shek
1912 – 1949
Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975) was a Chinese Nationalist politician, revolutionary and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China from 1928 until 1949 in mainland China and then in Taiwan until his death in 1975.
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