You mean "Cash My Check" as Vingegar Joe Stillwell called him? Chaing was worthless; he wanted us to do all the fighting against Japan, and hoard all the equipment we sent him to fight the Commies after the war. No, I'm not saying we should have backed Mao, either. I doubt there would have been any gratitude for the support. I'm saying Chaing was a rat-hole from which there was no return on the investment.
For better or for worse, he was the leader of the Republic of China. The Chinese people sufferred mightily at the hands of the Japanese from 1931 to 1945. Their resistnece and stubborness tied up half the Japanese army- troops that otherwise could be defending the Philippines, Solomons, East Indies or invading Australia, New Zealand or India.
The "Peanut". :)