With a POD after 1927, have the VNQDD rule an independent Vietnam free from French, and a government based on the Chinese KMT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Nam_Quoc_Dan_Dang
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Nam_Quoc_Dan_Dang
South Vietnam's ideals were based on the Kuomintang. The government was corrupt, oppressive and incompetent.
The establishment of the Federation of Malaya did not go down well with the Chinese, whereby favourable conditions for obtaining citizenship for the Chinese and other non-Malays were withdrawn. The Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) was formed on February 27, 1949 under the leadership of a Straits Chinese businessman, Tan Cheng Lock who frequently raised grievances over the citizenship terms that were set when the Federation was established.[3] As a result, communal tensions between the Malays and Chinese surfaced, and Onn Jaafar, who was then leader of the United Malays National Organisation, kept his distance from Tan.
Tan was a former member of the Malayan Anti-Japanese League. However, the initial members of the MCA were mainly Kuomintang (KMT) members who joined as an alternative and also in opposition to the Malayan Communist Party. This formation was with the implicit support by post-World War II British Reoccupation Authority. At that time, the MCA members then were divided according to their respective home states.
The first leaders of the MCA were Kuomintang army leaders. Leong Yew Koh, was a KMT major general who became a cabinet minister and later became governor of Malacca; Malaysia's first minister of finance, Tun Henry H.S. Lee, was a colonel; and Dr Lim Chong Eu, the leader of the Radical Party, and joined the MCA in 1952, was a colonel (medical) doctor in the Kuomintang.
Tan Cheng Lock did not enter the cabinet on independence. This was believed to be because his rival, Tun H.S. Lee, from Selangor, was in. Others thought that this was due to health reasons.
South Vietnam's ideals were based on the Kuomintang. The government was corrupt, oppressive and incompetent.
I really want to see if Chinese Nationalism could evolve into its own international Asian ideology. Think of an alternate East Asian cold war between Nationalist states subscribing to localized versions of Sun Yat-Sen's Three Principles of the People, and Sphere states subscribing to the weird revolutionary imperialism that Japan claimed to spread in the name of replacing European colonial empires with their own. And the Commies, of course.