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I’ve seen it argued that many in the early CPC were primarily motivated by nationalism rather than socialism, so the idea that they’d betray the leftist aspects of revolution if they thought it was in the better interest of China isn’t completely nonsensical.
A lot of communist movements in the imperial periphery or semi-periphery are fueled more by nationalism than communism, and it's just that the communist party has the best program for achieving a lot of what the nationalists want.