of Sun Yat-sen's ideal "international development" to modernise China. Germany's loss of her territories in China after the First World War, its need for raw materials and its lack of interest in Chinese politics, all advanced the rate and the productiveness of its cooperation with China since both countries were able to cooperate on the basis of equality and economic dependability. China's urgent need for industrial development to fight an eventual showdown with Japan also precipitated that progress. Furthermore, China's admiration of the rapid rise of Germany after its defeat in the First World War and its fascist ideology also prompted some Chinese within the ruling circle to fashion fascism as a quick solution to China's continuing woes of disunity and political confusion. In summation, although the period of Sino-German cooperation spanned only a short period of time, and much of its success was destroyed in the war with Japan, it had some lasting effect on China's modernisation. After the Kuomintang was defeated during the Chinese Civil War, it relocated to Taiwan. Many government officials of the Republic of China on Taiwan were trained in Germany, such as Chiang's son, Chiang Wei-kuo. Much of Taiwan's rapid postwar industrialization can be attributed to the plans and the goals laid down in the 1936 Three-Year Plan. One example was Taiwan fertilizer plant was built from a former German gun powder reactor accelerated the agricultural needs after the government moved to Taiwan. See also China–Germany relations Persecution of Chinese people in Nazi Germany Whampoa Military Academy German East Asia Squadron History of the Republic of China Notes References Citations Sources China Year Book, 1929–1930 (1930). North China Daily News & Herald. Chu Tzu-shuang. (1943) Kuomintang Industrial Policy Chungking. US War Department Strategic Service Unit (1946), German Intelligence Activities In China During World War II (Declassified and Approved for Release By The Central Intelligence Agency, Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act) External links Letter from Chiang Kai-shek to Adolf Hitler German Military Mission to China 1928–1938 Photos of Hitler together with Chinese delegates before end of cooperation 20th century in China 20th century in Germany 20th-century military alliances History of the foreign relations of Germany Foreign relations of the Republic of China (1912–1949) Military history of the Republic of China (1912–1949) Military history of China during World War II Military history of Germany during World War II National Revolutionary Army Military alliances involving China Military