“Chiang Kai-shek does not like my policies but he cannot do anything to me. I am too far away from his reach.”

— Sheng Shicai

Source: Dilemmas of victory: the early years of the People's Republic of China, Jeremy Brown, Paul Pickowicz, 2007, Harvard University Press, 0674026160, 186, 462, 2010-6-28 http://books.google.com/books?id=SK7Jdfnf9RIC&pg=PA186&dq=did+not+allow+the+russians+sheng+chiang&hl=en&ei=IxRPTMKzBoT48Aas7_WRBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Chiang%20planned%20militay%20against%20sheng%20troops%20supplies&f=false,

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