AHC: Nationalist Vietnam based on KMT ideals

Holy crap, I never knew that the KMT ever inspired other parties besides the Guominjun warlord army and the CCP puppets of the Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang. This is a really great find!

Not what you had in mind, but if the VNQDD was even more of an analogue for the KMT: South Vietnam pulls a Taiwan
 
I'm curious as to whether or not Sun Yat-Sen's ideals would be able to inspire anti-colonialist/imperialist revolutions elsewhere in Asia.
 
South Vietnam's ideals were based on the Kuomintang. The government was corrupt, oppressive and incompetent.

But at least for most of its existence South Vietnam wasn't split into fiefdoms controlled by rival warlords who nominally pledged allegiance to Saigon while openly using militias to prevent Saigon's central control.
 
It seems like the KMT's influence extended to more than Vietnam:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_Chinese_Association

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with the Chinese, whereby favourable conditions for obtaining citizenship for the Chinese and other non-Malays were withdrawn.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.

Was it though? South Vietnam was rooted in French colonialism, and Bao Dai as a satrap. Ngo Dinh Diem was essentially one of the only few Non-Colonialist figures who was Anti-Communist, and even he tried to crush the remnants of the Viet Quoc that survived the purges of Giap and Ho Chi Minh.
 
Well the Korean government in exile was in China for most of the Japanese occupation so plenty of chances for the KMT to inspire Koreans as well if they got their pants off of their heads.
 
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.
 
The KMT troops occupied Northern Vietnam in 1945, but even this did not give Vietnamese Nationalist Party any chance to take over the government. Instead, the KMT chose to cooperate with the Viet Minh.

A longer Chinese occupation, which last until the Chinese Civil War escalated and has made KMT more anti-communist, might do.
 
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.

Very interesting indeed. I imagine at least three places where it would be a contentious issue.
  1. Taiwan
  2. Manchukuo
  3. Korea
Perhaps Siam could have a localized version. It some way it already had the army taking over government, but lacked an ideology.


And of course Vietnam with the VQDD and Tibet.
 
Yeah, my link was about Malaya, too, but the Chinese are a distinct minority there.

Are there any Chinese majority/plurality regions in Indonesia?

What about KMT Singapore? Or too British, like Hong Kong, for that to happen?
 
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