Communist infiltrated the KMT, CHINA WW2 JAPAN traitor

Sino-Soviet relations became tense as the Chinese Communists sought to infiltrate the KMT beginning in 1927. This, and the increasingly nationalist self-confidence of the Nanking government after the capture of Peking by KMT troops in the summer of 1928, led in 1929 to the attempt to transfer the CER to Chinese ownership, or at least an attempt to take full control of the railroad, which was supposed de jure to be administered jointly and yet was under Soviet administration in fact. Chang Hsueh-liang, the ruler in Manchuria, who had since become linked to the KMT government, had the Soviet consulate general in Mukden and the Soviet trad missions in Manchuria closed, confiscated the CER telegraph system, expelled several Soviet railroad employees including the director general and arrested numerous others.