Chinese Revolution · TURNING POINT ·
Huanggutun Incident (1928)
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4 Jun 1928 — Officers of Japan’s Kwantung Army dynamite Zhang Zuolin’s train under his own capital, expecting his death to deliver Manchuria to them. Instead, his son Zhang Xueliang raises the Nationalist flag. Tokyo punishes no one. The officers have discovered that murder can be used to make policy.
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