Xen
Banned
Here's something I havent seen done yet. Stalin dies in September 1950. Instead of China sending troops to aid North Korea as they were about to be over run by the UN, what if Mao sent those troops to invade Taiwan. Mao was concerned the US would declare war on China next, so we'll have MacArthur send Mao basically saying "If you get involved ask yourself, how long will it be until China stops glowing in the dark?" Mao turns to Moscow, but there is a power struggle over who replaces Stalin, believing the US to be good on its threat to nuke his country, and seeing the Soviets as bickering amongst themselves, Mao turns his attention to Taiwan.
As the UN encroaches upon the Yalu River, Mao launches his invasion of Taiwan. MacArthur seeks permission from Truman to make good on his promise to make China glow, but Truman declines. The British and Portugese also pressure Truman not provoke war with China fearing for Hong Kong and Macao. A detachment of US Marines lands on Taiwan to help defend it from the invading Chinese, but Mao has pumped hundreds of thousands of soldiers across the straight. The US Navy evacuates the surviving Marines, and a large number of Taiwanese citizens. Meanwhile the US has its handful with the last of the North Korean forces, but by May 1951 has pushed the communists across the Yalu River. The Korean War is over, and an western friendly government rules over the entire peninsula.
In Moscow, Molotov emerges as the new Premeir of the USSR and a new chapter of the Cold War begins. The loss of the Republic of China to the Communists sends bells ringing in Washington, fueling McCarthyism. Kai-shek had escaped the Chinese invasion and now set up a Government in exile in San Francisco, still recognized by the US and UN as the government of China. The Korean/Chinese border became the most heavily fortified border in the world, with the US keeping troops stationed with in view of the Peoples Republic of China. Just as Kai-shek had a government in exile in the US, Kim Il Sung set up a Korean government in exile along a border town on the Yalu River.
Now there was one China, and one Korea, and a hot war in southeast Asia with the French and Ho Chi Minh, the strategies of both east and west were now radically different.
As the UN encroaches upon the Yalu River, Mao launches his invasion of Taiwan. MacArthur seeks permission from Truman to make good on his promise to make China glow, but Truman declines. The British and Portugese also pressure Truman not provoke war with China fearing for Hong Kong and Macao. A detachment of US Marines lands on Taiwan to help defend it from the invading Chinese, but Mao has pumped hundreds of thousands of soldiers across the straight. The US Navy evacuates the surviving Marines, and a large number of Taiwanese citizens. Meanwhile the US has its handful with the last of the North Korean forces, but by May 1951 has pushed the communists across the Yalu River. The Korean War is over, and an western friendly government rules over the entire peninsula.
In Moscow, Molotov emerges as the new Premeir of the USSR and a new chapter of the Cold War begins. The loss of the Republic of China to the Communists sends bells ringing in Washington, fueling McCarthyism. Kai-shek had escaped the Chinese invasion and now set up a Government in exile in San Francisco, still recognized by the US and UN as the government of China. The Korean/Chinese border became the most heavily fortified border in the world, with the US keeping troops stationed with in view of the Peoples Republic of China. Just as Kai-shek had a government in exile in the US, Kim Il Sung set up a Korean government in exile along a border town on the Yalu River.
Now there was one China, and one Korea, and a hot war in southeast Asia with the French and Ho Chi Minh, the strategies of both east and west were now radically different.