How much damage these groups did to the Japanese war effort is debatable , but they were a new phenomenon Chinese who were fighting for the future of Malaya. Although their vision was for a communist government, the MPAJA and the AU represented the first major Chinese political drive to help determine the future of what the immigrants now saw as their country. Apart from the communists, there were other significant resistance groups. ln Perak and Pahang, sizable Malay groups fought the Japanese bravely. Tun Abdul Razak, who later became prime minister of Malaya, w an officer in the Pahang force, Wataniah. A group of Chinese fighters around the border with Thailand was linked to the Kuomintang, and anti-Japanese groups who were nothing more than bandits took advantage of the chaotic situation Except for the bandits, all these groups were symptoms of forces that would appear in greater strength after the war the forces of Malayan nationalism.