The Crumbling Kuomintang.

The current offensive of the Chinese Communists promises to amputate large chunks of the nationalist political party of Taiwan, Kuomintang territory and add tens of millions of people to the two hundred million already under Communist rule. This offensive, however, is not likely to be the "final conflict" for China. The million men in the Communists' striking army can certainly knife through the Nationalist armies in their path, but the main Communist armies are a thousand miles from the southern China border and three thousand miles from the inner Asian frontier. When the present advance grinds to a halt, its supply of men, food, and munitions exhausted, the Communists will still have to contend with at least a rump Kuomintang government in parts of southeastern China and Formosa.