沒有國民黨就沒有中國, Without the Kuomintang there would be no China, A Republic of China Story

Hardworking Chinese Patriot: 11:00 AM on Monday
Same for (the whole of) Malaysia, now I wonder if a much richer (and whole) China as a trading partner means that (Peninsular) Malaysia (and therefore Singapore) decided to sync their time to Chinese time much earlier since the reason Malaysia decided changed their time IOTL to ensure the markets time to be the same as Hong Kong (other than the usual [BS IMO] reason to promote unity between the Peninsular and Borneo side of Malaysia).
 
Same for (the whole of) Malaysia, now I wonder if a much richer (and whole) China as a trading partner means that (Peninsular) Malaysia (and therefore Singapore) decided to sync their time to Chinese time much earlier since the reason Malaysia decided changed their time IOTL to ensure the markets time to be the same as Hong Kong (other than the usual [BS IMO] reason to promote unity between the Peninsular and Borneo side of Malaysia).
Malaysia changes the time in the 1970s TTL.
 
Election Night 1996 一
6:30 PM, Chungyuan Standard Time, Nanking, Jiangsu, China

Chen Xiaoling: Welcome back to China’s election headquarters. The first polls have closed. Now we are getting the results from six provinces; Heilongjiang, Andong, Nenjiang, Jilin, Songjiang, and Hejiang. These Northeastern provinces were Li Ao’s best provinces in the first round, and we have little doubt that they’ll be his best in the second round.

Wang Yongrui: That’s right, five of these provinces have Liberal Party governors, and the Governor of Hejiang is a member of the China Youth Party. Songjiang is Li’s home province, his hometown of Harbin erupted in celebration when he won his upset victory in 1990. None of these provinces voted for the KMT in 1990, the only province where we’re uncertain is Hejiang. Let’s hear from our reporter in Jiamusi.

Jin Meilin: Here in Jiamusi we’ve got three runoff elections, President, governor, and mayor. The KMT base seems energized here, but the exit polls we’ve conducted are showing that the city will vote for Li Ao for President and the China Youth Party at the local level.

Wang Yongrui: With over one million votes already counted, let’s take a look at the returns. Li Ao has a substantial lead, but of course Lien Chan has plenty of time to catch up. In Nenjiang, Songjiang, and Heilongjiang, Li has an over 20% lead on Lien. We won’t call Hejiang for Li just yet, but it looks like it will be in his column.

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Election Night 1996 二
7:00 PM, Chungyuan Standard Time, Nanking, Jiangsu, China

Chen Xiaoling: And now the polls have closed in China’s most populous provinces and cities. Votes are coming in from KMT strongholds in the South. Li Ao’s lead is dropping fast. Let’s hear from our reporter in Taiwan.

Cui Jiayi: I’m here in the small town of Yuchi, home to the famous Sun Moon Lake. Vice President Lin Yang-kang held a rally here today in his hometown.

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Cui Jiayi: Both sides have a connection to Taiwan. Lien Chan’s dad, Lien Chun-tung, was born on the island. We’re expecting a very close election here.

Wang Yongrui: Let’s look at the South. Guangdong, birthplace of Sun Yat-sen, is Kuomintang country, sticking with the party through the disastrous 1992 elections. The results we’ve seen so far aren’t even close. The KMT completely dominated in the Cantonese-speaking media, and the outcome here was never really in doubt. Hainan voted the KMT back into power at the provincial level last month, and Lien unsurprisingly has the lead there. Hunan is James Soong’s home province, and stayed loyal to the KMT in 1992. Jiangxi, the home province of Wang Sheng, also voted KMT in 92. Both provinces can safely be called for the KMT. We can say the same about Zhejiang, home province of the Chiang family. Fujian is going to vote blue, but let’s keep an eye on it. The province has a strong China Democratic Socialist Party presence. Lien’s margin of victory here will help give us a good idea as to how many CDSP voters are actually voting for Li Ao.

Chen Xiaoling: Further North we’ve got a lot of CDSP strongholds, and Li is doing well there. Xingan voted for Chen Chongguang in the first round, and it looks like it is safe for Li. We’re also seeing Li winning CDSP areas of Hebei. He’s winning so far in Beiping, Shijiazhuang, and Baoding, with Tianjin being the only major city in the province that seems to be backing Lien. Memories of the 1989 protests are contributing to Li Ao’s good performance here.

Wang Yongrui: The results in the North will be interesting to see too. Liaoning will be one to watch. Lian Chan represents a district in the provincial capital of Shenyang, and that’s where he is today, at his campaign headquarters after rallying his supporters. The province is also where much of the Liberal Party’s early support was found. The Northeast is usually a weak region for the KMT, but Lien Chan might be able to change that. In nearby Liaobei, despite former President of the Legislative Yuan Liang Surong’s urging to vote KMT, Li Ao has a comfortable lead. Chahar, a stronghold for the New Democratic League, is voting overwhelmingly for Li Ao. Rehe is voting pretty heavily for Li too.

Chen Xiaoling: The central provinces are the ones I think will decide the election. And there’s no clear winner of this region yet, I think that means it’s going to be a long night.

Wang Yongrui: I agree. Jiangsu is the province I’m most interested in. I think that Lien is going to win Nanking, but Shanghai could go either way. James Soong was there today rallying KMT voters. Hubei will be interesting as well. There’s a lot of resentment against the KMT in that province because of the killing of Yuan Jia in 1989 and then Governor Peng Mengji’s crackdown on protests. Anhui is probably going to vote blue, but I think Li can make it close. Shandong will be interesting. The Kung family is still highly influential there, and they’ve donated a lot of money to the Lien campaign. Meanwhile in Henan, where a lot of their factories are located, Li Ao has the lead. He ended his campaign there in the industrial city of Hangzhou. Finally, we’ve got Shanxi, which was home to the famous warlord Yan Xishan. That province could go either way.

Chen Xiaoling: I think it’s safe to make some calls. We can confidently call Hejiang for Li. Also in Li’s column are Liaobei, Xingan, Chahar, Rehe, and I’m going to say Hebei too. Meanwhile, we can safely say that Lien has won Guangdong, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Zhejiang. But what matters is the overall vote, and Li Ao is still in the lead.

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Election Night 1996 三
8:00 PM, Chungyuan Standard Time, Nanking, Jiangsu, China

Wang Yongrui: We’ve got more results coming in. The polls are now closed in all of China’s major cities. Suiyuan is coming in heavily for Li, it’s a province where the KMT has been unpopular for a while. The provinces of Ningxia, Gansu, and Qinghai, once ruled by the three Northwestern Ma warlords, look like they will remain bastions of KMT support. Even though polls haven’t closed yet in parts of Qinghai, I can say with confidence that Lien will win big, after all, he won with 60% of the vote in the first round. Gansu is similarly looking like a KMT landslide. Ningxia is a lot closer, however. Yunnan seems to be returning to the KMT fold. Lien is leading in Guizhou and Sichuan, which had dumped the party in 1992. Sichuan voted against the KMT in the 1990 elections as well. Let’s see if that lead holds. Guangxi is up in the air, the province of Li Zongren and the warlords who were a thorn in Chiang Kai-shek’s side right up into the 1960s. Li Ao has a slight lead, but there are still a lot of votes to count. Li has a slight lead in Shaanxi, which is where Lien Chan was born. We have some votes coming in from Xikang, though polls are still open in part of the province.

Chen Xiaoling: I think this is a good sign for Lien Chan. If he loses Sichuan I don’t see him winning the election. We’ve got a strategist for Li Ao here. Mr. Kang, Li is only barely in the lead right now, and it looks like Lien will overtake him any minute now.

Kang Xiaoli: It’s looking like it will be close, we knew that coming into the election, but Li is going to win reelection. He’s going to sweep the Central Plains and he’ll do well in the rest of the country too. Hubei and Guangxi are going to come in for Li as well.

Chen Xiaoling: Now let’s hear from our KMT strategist, what do you think about what Kang said?

Xiong Feng: I think he’s wrong, and I have good reason to think so. The places that Li Ao will win have already voted. Western China is deep blue territory, and that’s where a lot of the remaining votes are.

Kang Xiaoli: Not very many people live in China’s last two time zones. And I wouldn’t call Xinjiang “deep blue.”

Wang Yongrui: Let’s turn our attention back east for a moment, Lien Chan is winning in Anhui, while we can call Henan for Li Ao. And look at that, Lien Chan in now leading in the overall vote.

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Election Night 1996 四
9:00 PM PM, Chungyuan Standard Time, Nanking, Jiangsu, China

Chen Xiaoling: Polls have closed in the rest of Xikang and Qinghai. Most of Tibet and Xinjiang have voted too. We can call Xikang for Lien, along with Guizhou and Sichuan. Tibet, as you may know, is ruled by the Tibet improvement Party, a KMT affiliate. Lien is leading there, just like he won it in the first round. Lien’s lead in Xinjiang is smaller, and I think Li has a chance to win there.

Wang Yongrui: I think there’s a possibility of a Li victory in Xinjiang, unlike in Tibet.


9:30 PM, Chungyuan Standard Time, Nanking, Jiangsu, China

Wang Yongrui: The last polls in Western Tibet and Xinjiang have closed. I don’t think these will make a huge difference for the final results, as only a small minority of either provinces population lives in the Kunlun time zone. Back east though, there are some interesting developments. Many precincts in Hebei, Henan, and Hubei, especially working-class areas, are breaking heavily for Li Ao. Li is also doing well in some minority villages in the South. His lead in Henan is growing, and he has exceeded expectations there.

Chen Xiaoling: Things are looking good for Li. His lead in Hubei is growing as well. I think we can say that he’ll win the province. Less than half a million votes now separate Lien and Li.

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Election Night 1996 五
11:00 PM Chungyuan Standard Time, Nanking, Jiangsu, China

Chen Xiaoling: Lien Chan continued to maintain his narrow lead over Li Ao. Let’s talk to our reporter in Shanghai.

Feng Ju: It really seems like the election might come down to who wins the largest city in the nation. With 60% of votes counted, Li has a small lead. I’m here at the KMT’s city headquarters. The people here are confident that the party will win Shanghai, Jiangsu, and China.

Wang Yongrui: I think we can start making some calls. With over 90% of the vote in, we can safely say that Lien Chan won his home province of Liaoning. Losing a province in the Northeast is a bad sign for Li’s campaign. However, Li has won Shanxi, and his lead in the Central Plains provinces is increasing.

12:00 AM Chungyuan Standard Time, Nanking, Jiangsu, China

Chen Xiaoling: It looks like Li has regained the lead in the overall vote. It’s very close, but it’s a welcome development in the Li Ao camp. There are still some places in the South and in Xinjiang that are taking a long time to count the votes, and those places could give

Wang Yongrui: Five provinces remain uncertain: Taiwan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Guangxi, and Shaanxi. We can, however, call Xinjiang for Lien Chan. Let’s hear from our reporter in Urumqi.

Saidullah Shahidi: We’ve conducted a number of exit polls in the major cities in Xinjiang in Mandarin, Uighur, and Kazakh. Those who responded to questions in Uighur seem to favor the KMT by wider margins than those responding to questioning in Mandarin or Kazakh. The KMT also seems poised to win the gubernatorial and other provincial and local elections here.

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Election Night 1996 六
1:00 AM Chungyuan Standard Time, Nanking, Jiangsu, China

Wang Yongrui: Over the last hour both Lien and Li have been in the lead at different times. We’re certainly not ready to project a winner yet. However, we can say that the Legislative Yuan elections seem to be going in the KMT’s favor, and the party might have a legislative majority again.

Chen Xiaoling: It looks like Li Ao’s lead in Guangxi is disappearing, as blue precincts in the province are reporting. Shandong also seems to be leaning blue, though I’m not confident enough to call either province yet. Taiwan continues to be extremely close, even with 98% of ballots counted we still can’t determine the winner.

2:00 AM Chungyuan Standard Time, Nanking, Jiangsu, China

Chen Xiaoling: Lien’s lead is increasing. I don’t want to call the election yet, but if things continue like this then his victory is guaranteed. We're putting Shandong in Lien's coumn.

Wang Yongrui: I agree. In the legislative elections, it looks like the KMT is going to win a plurality of seats, though maybe not the majority. We’ll keep you updated on some of the close races.

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Election Night 1996 七
3:58 AM Chungyuan Standard Time, Nanking, Jiangsu, China

Wang Yongrui: I think it’s time to call the election. The city of Shanghai and Jiangsu province have counted almost all the votes, and Lien is winning. The remaining votes are going to have to come in overwhelmingly for Li Ao for him to win, and I just don’t see that happening. Ladies and gentlemen, you heard it here, Lien Chan is the next president of the Republic of China.

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4:30 AM Chungyuan Standard Time, Nanking, Jiangsu, China

Chen Xiaoling: Lien Chan has given a victory speech to his supporters in Shenyang. Afterwards the crowd erupted in cheers, and many began to sing Without the Kuomintang there would be no China. Li Ao has not yet conceded.

5:15 AM Chungyuan Standard Time, Nanking, Jiangsu, China

Chen Xiaoling: Li Ao has conceded the election. In his concession speech he seems to hint at a possible run in 2002. Lien Chan is indisputably the winner of this election. After six years in the wilderness, the KMT has returned to power.
 
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These are the final results of the election:

Lien Chan/James Soong: 232,048,981 votes (50.8%)
Li Ao/Lin Yang-kang: 224,740,352 votes (49.2%)

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Lien Chan's best province was Qinghai (67%)
Li Ao's best province was Chahar (64%)

Taiwan was decided by 2,000 votes, Guangxi and Shaanxi were also very close.
 
Well,with all the scandals during the presidency of Li Ao there was no way he wasn't going to become a one-term president and hopefully Lien Chan will be better.
 
Given how political parties are now legal and that China is fully democratic, what are the chances we see some Far-Right Ultranationalist Parties emerge? I could see this movement try to emulate Zou Rong's Han Racialist Ideology or Dai Li's Fascist Blueshirt Movement.

No doubt they would be a very minor movement/party with very little votes, but it would be interesting to explore the state of fringe extremist politics in a Democratic China.
Conversely, a far left party may also emerge (99.999999%unlikely considering the fact that the last communist in china was a lone gunman, but there are far left ideologies other than communism).
 
Given how political parties are now legal and China is fully democratic, what are the chances we see some Far-Right Ultranationalist Parties emerge? This movement could try to emulate Zou Rong's Han Racialist Ideology and Dai Li's Fascist Blueshirt Movement.

No doubt they would be a minor movement/party with very few votes, but exploring the state of fringe extremist politics in a Democratic China would be interesting.
The Chinese Homeland Party is a far-right ultranationalist party that was founded when the ban on new political parties was lifted. It got a few local politicians elected, but has been largely irrelevant to Chinese politics. Other similar parties will be formed in the future. I had actually found a person who would be perfect tot lead such a party, a guy from Shanghai who moved to Taiwan OTL. but I cannot remember his name.
Conversely, a far left party may also emerge (99.999999%unlikely considering the fact that the last communist in china was a lone gunman, but there are far left ideologies other than communism).
The New Democratic League is the party of the far-left. They weren't explicitly founded that way, but the moderates in the party drifted towards the Liberal Party and the moderate leftists drifted towards the China Democratic Socialist Party.
I would like to see how Chinese new religious movements (such as Xuanyuanism and Tiandiism) would develop, consider China would have much more religious freedom compared to OTL.
I will get to that, though it may be a long time from now. I'm going to take a long break from writing alternate history starting this month. I'm going to get a few more chapters out, and then I'll make an official end of the story. Though I will come back and add supplemental updates later, as I did with my other two TLs.
 
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