AH Challenge: Balkanized China

While this may not seem too hard at first, there are a number of conditions to this Balkanized China: There must be a POD after 1900. You must have the Kuomintang at least briefly in control of China's provinces. The states that make up OTL's China must be actual states, not just warlord-controlled areas. There must have been an independent Uyghur state.

Good luck!
 
Ok here goes, The Kuomintang manage to capture/kill Mao and a good deal of the CCP in the late stages of the Civil War. The Kuomintang is mostly in control but many people are opposed to their rule. Communist guerillas continue operating in much of the countryside and the Kuomintang is stretched at controlling the cities, eventually the government collapses and most small regions are seized by the local gvoernor, ambitious general, or communist leader. However the communist cause is not unified though a numebr of the new states come under Soviet influence for protection, while some of the others look to the US or simply go their own way, maintaining independence through force of arms and selling opium.
 
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