AHC: Larger Taiwan/Republican China

Using any POD, how would you make Republican China a larger state, barring ASB, anything goes, though it has to allow for Communist China to still hold a majority of the the mainland (around 60%).

Any ideas?
 
Try and find a way to reduce the KMT casualties in the Huaihai Campaign so that it's not too disastrous. Bonus if you can keep Bai Chongxi from being "kicked upstairs" to the Defense Ministry by Chiang, who doesn't trust him. Better chance for KMT if they have Bai's tactical acumens, as he was the only KMT general to have scored a victory against the CCP in the whole war.

So instead of a decisive victory for the CCP, it becomes only a strategic victory in which the CCP merely consolidates their holdings in the north, while the KMT still has enough manpower to hold the Yangtze River and the south. Also gives Chiang Kai-shek more wiggle room politically to hold off rivals within the KMT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huaihai_Campaign

Optional: Send someone else slightly more competent (or at least less corrupt) than Chen Yi as Governor of Taiwan to at least delay the 228 Incident until after the situation in the mainland is under control, would butterfly away pro-independence sentiments in the island.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/228_Incident
 
Have the Communists and Nationalists go to war right after WW2 instead of the Americans trying to broker a doomed peace. The CCP is in a very weak position but the Nationalists can probably still make enough mistakes for Mao to gain ground. Come 1950 both sides are totally exhausted and the country is divided north-south roughly along the Yangtze. The USA is now in a massive Red Scare and supports Chiang's southern regime completely. EDIT: Bonus points if the Reds took Korea while nobody was looking, that would give the Americans even more imperative to hold on to "Free Asia."
 
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The Nationalists occupied Hainan as well. It was the last territory they lost to the Communists. It's not ASB for the KMT to hold onto the province until hostilities cease. An American naval presence in the area might have done the trick.
 
The Nationalists occupied Hainan as well. It was the last territory they lost to the Communists. It's not ASB for the KMT to hold onto the province until hostilities cease. An American naval presence in the area might have done the trick.

The thing is, Hainan is just too close to the mainland for it to be successfully defended.
 
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