 Complete the following phrase:  The Germans also participated in the crushing of the Boxer Rebellion. Follpwing World War I, relations gradually improved as German military advisers assisted the Kuomintang nationalist governments National Revolutionary Army, though this would gradually change during the 1930s as Adolf Hitler allied himself with Japan. During the aftermath of World War II Germany and China were split in two states: a liberal democratic West Germany and the Republic of China on Taiwan allied with the Western Bloc while two communist states, East Germany and the 