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But the KMT had plenty of bureaucratic incompetence which could have led to some accidental manmade famines. Maybe not as catastrophic as the Great Leap, but still pretty harmful.

Perhaps we could tie flaying in with the growth in popularity of dissections of cadavers and surgery-as-entertainment.

But that still leaves the question of what this KMT China looks like. What does Chiang do after he defeats the Communists? Does he focus on the economy, or political reform/consolidation, or something else entirely?

Well, after Luciani declines the papacy, a lot of cardinals are going to approach him before the next balloting and ask who he thinks should be pope. I imagine that even a shrinking violet like Luciani would nonetheless wield a great deal of power as kingmaker. And we know that Luciani favored...

Well, after Luciani declines the papacy, a lot of cardinals are going to approach him before the next balloting and ask who he thinks should be pope. I imagine that even a shrinking violet like Luciani would nonetheless wield a great deal of power as kingmaker. And we know that Luciani favored...

I agree with Guangxu's post. We can definitely still have a CCP without Mao. But what happens when we throw the Returned Students into the mix? If Wang Ming and his pro-Soviet group gained enough influence, the CCP could become more or less a tool of Moscow's. And as plenty of people have...

About addiction, it's possible that Big Licorice would put additives in their licorice to make it more addictive.

Once the reconstruction of the north gets underway, though, how long will the people of the south be willing to bear the economic burden? Might they start developing a grudge similar to the German Wessies against the Ossies once their fraternal benevolence runs out?

But also, consider the reaction on the other side of the spectrum. The conservatives -- Ottaviani and the like -- would be furious. You might have large sections of the Curia resign in protest, and perhaps there would be larger numbers of priests and bishops gravitating towards Lefebvre...

It's also likely that the various provinces of China would grow more autonomous, since foreign partition would make them even more cut off from the government in Peking, which would be weakened to the point of impotence by the great power alliance. Also, as somebody mentioned before, the...