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I mean both tried to replace Chinese culture, confucism and buddhism with western culture and Christianity.
Sun Yat sen's legacy was hotly debated by the KMT throughout the period after his death. The entire left wing of the KMT including his wife Song Qingling and Wang Jingwei (before losing hope in an independent China) argued his political work was principally influenced by progressivism and socialism, and the interpretation of his political work as Confucian values was primarily advanced by the right wing of the KMT like Dai Jitao backed by people like Chiang Kai Shek and Hu Hanmin. Whatever his great-grandson who never knew him says can be taken with a huge grain of salt, especially because nobody advanced this Christian interpretation during his time. In fact throughout the 1920s, KMT leaders including the Christian members advanced anti-Christian rhetoric of missionaries as imperialists, which indirectly encouraged protests and riots to loot and burn many Christian missions. The party also banned foreign missionaries from manging schools etc. Michael G. Murdock (2010).
Disarming the Allies of Imperialism: The State, Agitation, and Manipulation during China's Nationalist Revolution, 1922–1929. Cornell University Press. pp. 11–12; Martin Wilbur (1984).
The Nationalist Revolution in China, 1923-1928. Cambridge University Press. pp. 70–72; Kaiyi Li (2021).
Transnational Education between The League of Nations and China: The Interwar Period. Springer Nature. pp. 17–18
As for Chiang himself, his personal diaries described his understanding of Christianity as simply being a reinforcement of Confucianism, which is why he was able to convert so easily just to marry Song Meiling Taylor, Jay (2009).
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the struggle for modern China. Harvard University Press. p. 91. If he had believed the Atlanticist propaganda about Confucianism being an archaic ideology that is inferior to Western culture, he would not be Christian in the first place.
Also the CPC doesn't agree with your assessment of Sun Yat sen:
