AHC and WI: PRC Doesn't Enter Korean War

The POD can be as close as the end of World War II.

Truman showed intense dislike for Chiang Kai-shek. "Chiang Kai-shek and the Madame and their families, the Soong family and the Kungs were all thieves... They stole seven hundred and fifty million dollars out of the thirty-five billion we sent ... and invested in real estate ... And I don't want anything to do with people like that."

Eventually, he preferred Chiang because Mao was Communist. Literally what this post is asking for is:

How do you make the US support the Communists instead of the KMT?

Because then Communist China wouldn't go into a 'siege mentality' and attack from the Yalu - and America gets an ally of sorts against the Soviets. Maybe they'll stop thinking that Communists are homogeneous.
 
The most obvious way to prevent the PRC from entering the war is to stop at the 38th parallel. This would be politically difficult but certainly less so than the US having actually supported the Chinese Communists (in OTL the political pressure on Truman was all in the other direction, that he should do *more* for Chiang, etc.).

It is even conceivable that PRC intervention could have been avoided if the the US had decided to stop at the "narrow neck" and discreetly assured the PRC that there could be a rump DPRK along the Chinese border. (I know that Mao had already decided to intervene before that point had been reached, but it is just possible that this would persuade him to change his mind.)
 
The Soviets were more or less backing the PRC until the sixties. The US would never support communists aligned with the USSR (or communists in general, as shown by Vietnam).
 
Such actions would be totally out of character for Truman. If you want to go through with this you have to prevent Truman becoming President and make Henry A. Wallace FDR's successor. Of course, you'd need to convince Wallace of the actual necessity of having allies against the Soviet Union... but if you could he'd likely be willing to seek them amongst Communists.

This implying that Mao would be be willing to betray Stalin for purely geopolitical reasons.
 
The POD can be as close as the end of World War II.

Truman showed intense dislike for Chiang Kai-shek. "Chiang Kai-shek and the Madame and their families, the Soong family and the Kungs were all thieves... They stole seven hundred and fifty million dollars out of the thirty-five billion we sent ... and invested in real estate ... And I don't want anything to do with people like that."

Eventually, he preferred Chiang because Mao was Communist. Literally what this post is asking for is:

How do you make the US support the Communists instead of the KMT?

Because then Communist China wouldn't go into a 'siege mentality' and attack from the Yalu - and America gets an ally of sorts against the Soviets. Maybe they'll stop thinking that Communists are homogeneous.

How do you get the Americans to support OTL Maoists? Easy. You don't. Mao was a monster on the order of Hitler and Stalin. The Americans are not about to get into bed with a person like that. The only was this works is if we are talking about an ATL Mao who avoids the Great Leap Forward which killed between 20 and 30 million people, and establishes a social democracy in China instead of a Communist dictatorship, that might be different, but OTL? No. Just no.
 
If the UN forces had stopped at the narrow part of the Korean peninsula - above the 38th parallel but well south of the Yalu, it is likely the Chinese would not have intervened or if they had this line could have been defended. The vision of North Korea being completely destroyed with anti-communist forces right on the border was an anathema to Mao. No way the USA in 1950 would be allied or even sympathetic to anyone with the label "communist". Communism was seen as "unitary" and controlled from the USSR - not entirely accurate but that was the impression.

IMHO if somehow North Korea imploded tomorrow I bet the Chinese would occupy some of the border area to create a buffer zone between their territory and the unified/pro-US Korea. It would be done to "prevent disorder" and "humanitarian assistance" but the temporary need would never go away.
 
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