Nearly all the Chinese Communist Party’s weapons in 1948 were of American origin. The rifles and artillery were initially supplied to KMT forces by the United States, but hyperinflation and panic forced Nationalist troops, paid in increasingly worthless paper currency, to trade away their guns for food.

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