While he made mistakes and was a brutal dictator, he reunited China and ensured Japan would have no victory in WW2

He’s not forgotten in China. People do recognize Chiang Kai Shek and Nationalist China’s role in defending against the Japanese.

Mostly PRC, because Taiwan wasn’t part of China during ww2 and they are kinda doing a sort of cancel culture thing with Chiang.

Tbf that kinda happens when you run constant massacres on people who dare to suggest that maybe you could do a little reforming.

Taiwanese identity is a super complex issue in itself. But regarding Chiang’s image and the history of his dictatorship — for mainland China that ended in 1945. barely anyone alive today actually lived through it, and so much crazy things had happened since it’s become quite distant. Whereas in Taiwan the martial law only ended in 1987 and memories are much much fresher.

The PRC are already re-assessing Chiang's place in history, and they're slowly recognizing his role in reuniting China despite being hated by them.

Hell, when Mao heard that Chiang died, he didn't celebrate nor gloat. He felt he had lost a worthy rival.

Still the matter of not really fulfilling the three principles might make Chiang unsatisfied with China. Chiang was one of the most loyal followers of Sun Yat Sen, so I would think he sought to enforce the three principles but was forced to focus on political tutelage due to him seeing China as 100% not ready for the principles right after having suffered the warlord period.

Chiang was not really the most loyal adherent of the three principles. He never embraced democracy, and I doubt he had intentions to do so even if he had won the civil war.

Well, it’s a tad bit hard to adhere to ideal principles and make a democratic nation when half the country is de facto ruled by autocratic warlords and you’re at war with an imperialist nation (Japan).

He had ten years of peace where the warlords all swore nominal loyalty to the central government. He also never democratized Taiwan during his decades of rule. We have to recognize that Chiang’s KMT represented a move away from civilian control of the KMT and a move towards military domination of the party. He was never a legitimate contender for the spot as Sun’s successor, but his position as leader of the army gave him the opportunity to sideline both Wang Jingwei and Hu Hamnin and become dictator.

"While he made mistakes and was a brutal dictator, he reunited China"- I get the feeling that is not the first time that sentence appears in chinese history.

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