Editing Kuomintang (section)

==History==
The predecessor of the Kuomintang, the Revolutionary Alliance (Tongmenghui), was one of the major advocates of the overthrow of the Qing dynasty, the subsequent revolt in 1911, and the proclamation of the Republic of China. 

The KMT was founded by Song Jiaoren and Sun Yat-sen shortly after the Xinhai Revolution of 1911. Sun was the provisional President, but he ceded the presidency to [[Yuan Shikai]]. Yuan's death in 1916 led to the nation's disintegration in the Warlord Era. Sun deputed [[Chiang Kai-shek]] to form the National Revolutionary Army and launch the Northern Expedition that unified much of mainland China and established the capital at Nanjing. 

During [[World War II]], [[Wang Jingwei]] lead a breakaway faction of the Kuomintang that later evolved into the [[Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China]], which was a puppet regime of [[Imperial Japan]]. The regime collapsed around the same time that Japan surrendered to the Allied Powers.

During the following Nanjing decade China achieved substantial economic growth and social progress, but the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) was disastrous. After the loss of the Chinese Civil War (1945–1949) to [[Mao Zedong]] and the [[Communist Party of China]], the KMT retreated to Taiwan where it continued to govern as an authoritarian one-party state. The Nationalist government retained China's United Nations seat until 1971.

Taiwan ceased to be a single-party state in 1986 under President [[Chiang Ching-kuo]], Chiang Kai-shek's son, and political reforms beginning in the 1990s under President Lee Teng-hui loosened the KMT's grip on power. Nevertheless, the KMT remains one of Taiwan's main political parties, with Ma Ying-jeou, elected in 2008 and re-elected in 2012, being the seventh KMT member to hold the office of the presidency. 

In the 2016 general and presidential election, the KMT was defeated in both elections and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) gained control of both the Legislative Yuan and the presidency, Tsai Ing-wen being elected President.

In the 2020 general and presidential election, the KMT was defeated again in both elections as a result of the DPP still led by Tsai Ing-wen being re-elected to a 2nd term as president.