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Hashasheen

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OTL the KMT faced long odds against the CCP in the Chinese Civil War, but how strong could their position be without winning the War. Excluding Hainan and Taiwan, what else could they have held on to?
 
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I presume you meant "could" instead of "would"?

The issue is, of course, that the CCP was very strong in the countryside, and even in OTL I believe managed to grab islands gradually piece by piece from the KMT (Hainan being the largest example)... it took basically the US ultimatum to save Quemoy and Matsu. Maybe if you could have a more pro-KMT government in Washington somehow Hainan and the other islands could be held, but more than that? The KMT's traditional strength was in the cities, but I don't know if they could really hold any cities as enclaves on the coast... It'd be interesting if you could find a way to make that work, though.
 

Hashasheen

Banned
I presume you meant "could" instead of "would"?

The issue is, of course, that the CCP was very strong in the countryside, and even in OTL I believe managed to grab islands gradually piece by piece from the KMT (Hainan being the largest example)... it took basically the US ultimatum to save Quemoy and Matsu. Maybe if you could have a more pro-KMT government in Washington somehow Hainan and the other islands could be held, but more than that? The KMT's traditional strength was in the cities, but I don't know if they could really hold any cities as enclaves on the coast... It'd be interesting if you could find a way to make that work, though.
didnt they have an Army in Burma? I''m collecting all of this info for a possible ASB TL I'm working on, and I've been meanng to strengthn the KMT as much as possible.
 
How do you hold onto a province on the mainland? The communists will not stop their fight, and the Kuomintang will find it very difficult to expel them from the countryside...

Maybe in TTL the US sends aid so the KMT line holds in Southern China leading to reforms which weaken the communist in the countryside and a negotiated end to the war.
 

ninebucks

Banned
The KMT's traditional strength was in the cities, but I don't know if they could really hold any cities as enclaves on the coast... It'd be interesting if you could find a way to make that work, though.

We (the British) managed it. But then, at the end of the day, it suited the Chinese to have us in Hong Kong, I doubt it'd be the same for an enemy KMT government.
 
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