Like other similar clashes immediately after the end of World War II between the communists and the nationalists in China, this conflict also emerged from the fact that Chiang Kai-shek had realized that his nationalist regime simply had neither the sufficient troops nor enough transportation assets to deploy his troops into the Japanese-occupied regions of China.
Like other similar disputes after World War II between communist and nationalist factions in China, this conflict was due to Chiang Kai-shek's inability to deploy sufficient troops and transportation resources into Japanese-occupied regions of China.