the CCP spies in the KMT had served with no real distinctions and honors in the military during the anti-Japanese war. it was regrettable that they just can't make it against the foreign enemy, the Japanese invaders, but were so resourceful against the domestic enemy, the KMT. Zhou Fohai facilitated Wang Jingwei's defection to the Japanese invaders. the key leaders of Wang Jingwei's puppet administration were all Communists, eg. Chen Gongbo, Zhou Fohai, Li Shiqun, etc. that really tell a lot about the Communists.
That really tells a lot about that
1. you don't know enough about these people and this period of history you were talking about.
2. or...how ridiculous the translation software could be that cannot identify a Chinese word "叛徒(TRAITOR)".
3. or you are just another poor guy failed to immune m/b/trillions of brainwashing anti-communism/anti-China propoganda on mainstream western media.
These three men had been communists, but they betrayed CCP douzens of years before the Sino-Japan war bursted.
In its early ages, CCP was quite like a salon of progressive bourgeois and intellectuals. They were passionate, romantic as well as impatient and weak. What you think they would do when they:
1.realized the consequences of socialism revolution would harm their and their families' benefit, because they were part of oppressor class?
2.were living in the shadow of stigma, listed as most-wanted, getting arrested & tortured instead of gaining fortune and fame?
3.found out the job of revolution could never be achieved by only writting books or signning declarations or giving orders, but takes hard, detailed and complicated works like living on rations even less than other people, leading charge in bulletstorm, sweating on fields/ at construction sites/ in manual workshops?
4.found out the mass didn't just listen and follow. The revolutionaries had to win their trust before they donate their tiny but sincere help. Shook collus-covered hands of those who work in dirts? Not even close. What would these talented and learned people feel as they lived together with those who were not able to read or write, only cared about pennies in everyday life, knew nothing about the world outside the village, and would 100% misunderstand every word of their lecture?
Zeal fades. It is just IMPOSSIBLE to support one's disire of revolution by self-satisfaction and romantics.
Thus, so many CCP's early members failed to survive the long-term and fierce ordeal.
Yes, Zhou and Chen were representative of CCP's first National Convention(July 1921) where CCP was formally found. Their name and photo are still displayed in the National Museum located next to Tiananmen Square, among others of "the founders of the party". The fact of history needs respect.
But they are traitors anyway.
Chen Gongbo quited even before the party's first anniversary. He directly violated the order of splitting up with anti-revolution warlord Chen Jiongming after he bombarded Sun Yet-seen's president office in June 1922, instead, he wrote articles to support Chen Jiongming. Later He refused to follow the request from the Party Central Committee, which asked him to come back to Shanghai to explain his action and respond the query within the party. futhermore, he accused current General Secretary Chen Duxiu for disturbing his overseas study. Finally, he decalred him was no longer contained by the party and break with it, in public.
CCP was, and still is, not good at sending someone who wanna quit to meet the Buddha as KMT did. So Mr.Chen successfully freed himself and went to study abroad.
He came back to China in April 1925, joined KMT immediately, then got promoted rapidly with care from Wang Jingwei. Chen lost power and influence as Wang lost the supreme seat of KMT to Chiang. He hesitated a lot after Wang made agreement with Japanese in Nov. 1938, but finally decided to follow Wang in Dec.20th, 1938. He arrived Nanking in March 1940 and joined Wang's traitor puppet government. That was nearly 18 years after he broke up with CCP.
Zhou Fohai quited CCP in Sept. 1924. In fact, he decoupled from the party organization right after the party's first meeting. Due to the threat of Japanese police or his own weakness, who knows? After he finished study in Japan and came back to China in 1924, KMT right wing elder Dai Jitao appointed him as Secretery of Propoganda Ministy and offered him a job as college professor. The disunity between Zhou and the party were getting worse and worse as time and tide changed. Finally, one family affair triggered it. His wife kept complaining about to hand in 1/6 of Zhou's decent income as dues. He was monthly payed 200 from KMT, and 240 from college(silver dollars), huge money at that time. Using this as excuse, Zhou wrote letters to CCP's Guangzhou Excutive Commitee, requesting quit. Even though the commitee principal( should be Zhou En-lai if my memory isn't wrong) repeatedly did ideological work to him, Zhou Fuhai insisted. So, “in order to purify the organization of the party”, CCP approved his departure.
Zhou Fuhai proved his loyality to KMT by devoting into anti-CCP business. He claimed "attacking CCP is my responsibility and my obligation(攻击共产党，是我的责任，是我的义务)". That was 1924, still in the first CCP-KMT alliance, remember? He became one of nine core circle leaders of CC, and a top leader of facsistic organization "the Blueshirts", which reorganized into Bureau of Investigation and Statistics.
Zhou spreaded capitulationism after the war began, absconddd to Hanoi in Dec. 1938, found the puppet government in March 1940. Same path as Wang Jingwei and Chen Gongbo. I am really curious about where the bottom line of KMT's incapability was set, for these capitulationists could spread their expression without liability, gathered as "low-profile club(低调俱乐部)" undiscovered, and just flew abroad in civil aviation.
Li Shiqun was caught by CC in 1932. He failed to hold his belief under CC agents' fierce torture and defected. He didn't confess others in connections with him, maybe for conscience, or in order to keep his treason a secret. As the CCP underground branch was confused about his loyalty, the organization wanted him prove himself by assassinating another traitor Ding Mocun, who had already sold out all comrades he knew. Li confirmed himself's stand: he came to Ding, and told him everything. These two men were the No.1&2 of "Institution76", the spy organization of Wang's puppet regime.
So what can people learn about the relation between CCP and these traitors? They betrayed CCP and gave it harsh attack years before the Sino-Jap war began.
What is your purpose of bonding them up together?
