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The United States' George Marshall did not intervene to stop the Chinese civil war and there was no arms embargo on the Nationalists. Consequently the Chinese Communists, even with all the weapons of the Manchukuo Army and most of the Japanese Kwantung Army weapons and the increased size of its forces, was defeated in the Northeastern area in China in 1947. The warlords gradually lost powers to Chiang Kai-shek and for the first time, central authority was established at Nanking that could lead the whole nation, and China modernizes - in the 1950s according to Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People.