After the overthrow of the imperial system, a number of forces appeared in China, each with its own agenda. The Communist Party learned from the USSR, some around Chiang Kai-shek learned from Nazi Germany, and people like Hu Shih and Chiang Ting-fu adulated only the US and UK.
推翻帝制後，國內又出現了幾股各行其是的力量：共產黨以蘇聯為師，蔣介石身邊有人效法納粹，胡適、蔣廷黻等人則唯英美是尚。