AHC: three Chinas

Most TLs tend to produce 2 Chinas - usually nationalist versus communist republics.
Are 3 Chinas possible?
What regimes would they be?
 
Most TLs tend to produce 2 Chinas - usually nationalist versus communist republics.
Are 3 Chinas possible?
What regimes would they be?
1. Surviving although weakened nationalist China after an axis victory in WWII
2. A Japanese satellite "Chinese Empire" formed from the territories occupied by Japan during WWII
3. The PRC which split fought a civil war with the nationalists after the armistice with Japan, it ended in a stalemate leading to Free China being split in two and China as a whole split in three
 
1. The PRC, having won the Civil War, but failing to control both Taiwan and Hainan
2. The Republic of China-Taiwan, much like OTL
3. The Republic of China-Hainan, a split of the Nationalist government
 
After the Chinese Civil War:

1. Mainland Han China (Probably Maoist PRC)
2. Tibet (British/Indian-supported)
3. Xinjiang (Soviet-supported)
As said these don't count as 2 & 3 won't be China. Manchuria is probably a borderline case depending on when, post1950 it might be Han enough to call itself China.
 
Well... maybe something with a short-lived Yuan Shikai's empire? He starts a new dynasty, a lot of provinces secede, some of them form a new Republic of China, another ones are united by communists - this way we could have empire under the rule of Yuan Keding, a republic and a communist state.
 
What about a civil war in the PR China after Mao dies, either launched by the Gang of Four when Hua Guofeng succeeds him, or later when he tries to consolidate power and arrest them?
 
Japan avoids total defeat in WW2, meaning it has to somehow avoid war with the U.S. China goes Communist after driving out the Japanese; Wang Jingwei escapes to Japanese-held Formosa; Chiang Kaishek forms government in exile in British India.
 
My idea:
- People's Republic of China (northern China)
- United Chinese Provinces (left-wing faction of KMT under Song Qingling - southern China)
- Republic of China (Yunnan-Guizhou)
 
Japan loses to America, but China falls into deeper turmoil

1. People's Republic of China: Mao Zedong: controls much of inland China: (Capital: Yan'an)

2. Republic of China: Chiang Kai-shek: Controls Southern Coastal China: (Capital: Nanjiang)

3. Qing Dynasty: Emperor Puyi: Controls Manchuria and Northern Coastal China (Capital: Beijing)
 
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