We are the poorest and weakest state in the world, occupying the lowest position in international affairs; the rest of mankind is the carving knife and the serving dish, while we are the fish and the meat.
Sun Yat-sen (born as Sun Deming, November 12, 1866 - March 12, 1925) was a Chinese politician, statesman and ideologist. He was the first president of the Republic of China and founder of the Kuomintang and he is considered both in the People's Republic of China and in the current Republic of China as the father of modern China (Taiwan).
In 1905, he founded the Alliance Society, a revolutionary organization to end the Manchu monarchy and establish a republican political model in China.1 The organization fostered a series of failed revolts, which led to the crisis at the end of the decade of 1900 and motivated the expulsion of Sun from various territories (Japan, French Indochina, British Malaysia ...) 2 Sun did not abandon its subversive activities, but on the eve of the Xinhai Revolution that ended the monarchy its preeminence among the revolutionaries he was declining.2
He was the first, ephemeral president of the Republic of China in 1911, before assigning the post to veteran administrator and military Yuan Shikai, in whose Government he served for about a year, as head of railways, before moving on to the opposition.
On November 10, 1924, Sun Yat-sen travels north and gives a new speech to suggest the idea of a conference for the Chinese people and the abolition of all unequal treaties with Western countries. Two days later, he travels back to Beijing to discuss the future of the country, despite the deterioration of his health and the civil war caused by the leaders. Its objective is to hold peace talks with regional representatives on the unification of China. He died of cancer on March 12, 1925 at the age of fifty-eight, on his way to Beijing.