Thx Color-Copycat RFLMAO at your comment!
Chiang Kai Shek was savvy enough to pitch himself as a Methodist and as American as apple pie leading a Chamber of Commerce to the China lobby b/c pitching himself as caudillo of a shaky junta trying hard for Zero Approval Rating would've meant throwing him to the wolves or letting the Japanese pummel him.
You run into all kinds of PODs with that. CKS attending West Point would've been interesting but IMO not have given him the political savvy he needed to organize the KMT.
Much as I'd like to think America is magic and rubbing progressive democracy and capitalism, not to mention our tradition of yeoman homesteaders on him would've made him a cuddlier and more progressive fellow so he'd see land reform/peasant welfare as first and foremost target of social reform, I don't think that'd be the case.
If I were in CKS's shoes, hustling for power in China, I'd be Chinese first. Thus doing my best to look like the fellow Heaven sent to sort out the mess, plot and scheme and backstab so the dangerous sorts are off-balance or neutralized, then reform once power was consolidated, which was CKS's strategy AFAIK.
He just ran out of time when his coalition collapsed after WWII as the Chinese Civil War went active.
For the tl;dr crowd, CKS would probably have not accumulated what support he did in the KMT if he were perceived as American or here to make China American.