AHC: Have Sternberg control most of China by the time of his death

I was wondering about potentially bizarre and crazy scenarios and in what was a general mess that was the warlord period. And I was wondering whether Sternberg could exploit the chaos and take large sections of China. Maybe Kang Youwei tries to introduce his State Confucianism to the fan as a potential monarch of China? Or have the Japanese cooperate with him.
 
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