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Let's assume in this timeline Chiang Kai-shek dies at some point during the second Sino-Japanese war and someone else takes his place considering how determined he was to have a fully united China. A stalemate occurs sometime after the civil war resumes whether it'd be because of the US and...

What exactly forced the US to abide by the 1-China policy? As the Cold War neared its end, the US was the undisputed world superpower and the PRC was still far from even hoping to challenge US in any way. For decades the US has had to play this game of not angering the PRC while still...

What is says on the tin. What caused this rift between Truman and Chiang? How could the U.S. and the KMT reset relations so that the ROC would not lose control of the mainland?

In 1911, we created a uprising that struck the valleys of our home. By 1912 we set up our provisional government that quickly collapsed to a wicked monarchist set to restore a monarchy in our homelands. Revolutionaries fled and by 1915, we were tired. We armed up against the monarchist and began...

With a POD after August 15, 1945, create a scenario where mainland China is divided in two with a Republic of (South) China and a People's Republic of (North) China. Bonus points if you avoid turning North China into a larger version of North Korea in the process.

With a POD after the end of the Chinese Civil War, would the ROC have ever been able to retake at least some of the mainland and hold it? OTL the ROC developed plans to retake the mainland, but the US actively opposed any such plans. Even during the Korean War and the Taiwan Straits crises of...

While reading up stuff about the situation in mainland China in 1945 and in 1950, they revealed that the Chinese communists had numerous chances for a stable relationship with the US even as the Cold War was looming yet that window of opportunity was shrinking since the rejection of their offer...

At the end of WW2, the Republic of China, alongside the US, the Soviet Union, Great Britain and France were made members of the UN Security Council. The Republic of China War then replaced by its predecessor, the People's Republic of China. But, had the Chinese Civil War ended in a stalemate...

So, assuming Non expansionist Koreo-Japanese empire, instead of OTL Japanese Empire, as western Ally Stronger Nationalist China in the Axis Butterfly nets as needed outside the East How would China be divided if it lost WW2? And effects on the ensuing Cold War etc.

As the "Republic of China" in Taiwan threatens the People's Republic of China with "atomic destruction" once again and the international community talks about Taiwan but does little but impose sanctions and the fight the occasional skirmish with the Taiwanese navy, I wonder what POD would be...

The Chinese Empire I'm talking about is the Yuan Shikai one I'm not a expert on chinese history, but what I found on wikipedia about the empire says that "the Hongxian Emperor was opposed by not only the revolutionaries, but far more importantly by his subordinate military commanders, who...

In the Boxer Rebellion, the Southeastern provinces under various governors had an agreement named the Mutual Protection of Southeast China, in which the various governors were not involved in the War and had almost established a Republic under Li Hongzhang. But what if Li Hongzhang actually...

Scenario: Nationalist China has eliminated the Communists in 1949 and are in control of China after decades of war. President Chiang Kai-Shek, although authoritarian, implements reforms to transform China into a modern free market economy. Parts of China were already developing rapidly up until...