Eventually, seven months after the Xi'an Incident, they engineered the "Marco Polo Bridge Incident" and China and Japan entered a period of full-scale war, which gave the Communists a chance to expand and, after victory in the war against Japan, successfully grab power.
就此判斷，國民政府的抗日政策必將開始加強，因而對侵華的速度也為之加緊，終於在西安事變後之七個月挑起盧溝橋事變，而中日全面開打，使中共獲得擴張壯大的機會，並在抗戰勝利後全線出擊，最後取得政權。