challenge: warlord china

After the Huaihai Campaign, Mao feels paranoid at plots against himself in the Party, and purges everyone who isn't his sycophant: Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, etc. Stalin also takes note of the infighting and begins to play a divide-and-rule strategy in the CPC.

Once the Communists have conquered all of Mainland China, Mao's paranoia backfires and there's a failed coup attempt against himself by Liu Shaoqi who was secretly Soviet-backed. Units of the PLA start disobeying Mao's orders, and CPC cadres begin to half-heartedly enforce his edicts.

Meanwhile, Chiang Kai Shek believes the mainland is not totally lost and has not been prevented by Truman from attempting to take back the mainland...
 
If the Warlords destroy the communists and force him out, would the USA finance him to regain China, considering the USSR is just too damn close and a threat?
 
I doubt the USSR would allow a unified nationalist China. It'd be considered very much a threat. I think the balkanization-theory is more plausible, and more likely to meet with Soviet approval. It might not be communist China, but it's the second-best thing: A fractured, divided China
 
would both the USSR and US intervene if china did balkanize?

Considering they both furiously supported their sides, I don't see why not.

If the Warlords destroy the communists and force him out, would the USA finance him to regain China, considering the USSR is just too damn close and a threat?

More likely it would be disgruntled Communists breaking off from Mao and the KMT remnants in Yunnan and Tibet forming the nucleus of future warlords. Eventually this might stabilize in a north/south split.
 
how would this affect world trade?
i'm guessing The situation is too chaotic for china to be turning out plastic toys by 2007?
 
how would this affect world trade?
i'm guessing The situation is too chaotic for china to be turning out plastic toys by 2007?

If China is divided into a KMT south and a CPC north, the south will be opened to the global economy much earlier. South China won't be like OTL Taiwan thanks to its vast size, but it will still be a vast source of cheap labor for decades. Chiang Kai Shek was also absolutely bent on taking back Tibet.

North China would probably split with the Soviets anyway, though given the fragility of the state it would not be as easy to launch mass movements as in OTL. Assuming the Soviet Union does stagnate and collapse during the 80s, North China would probably reproach with the south and begin market reforms. It's possible the North becomes like OTL North Korea, but a long shot.
 

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Well, China would be quite okay with Chiang, but they'd not allow a unified Nationalist China, since Chiang's successor could be much worse. And the US wouldn't allow Chiang to rule China, if he managed to take back huge parts of it and establish a Kuomintang government, the US would sponsor a coup against him since he has serves his purpose and should now be replaced by someone more loyal.
 
It's possible the North becomes like OTL North Korea, but a long shot

I'm going to be honest and say North Korea is the product of one of the most illogical and self centered people in human history. Everything Kim Jong Ill has done seems like ASB. The state North Korea exists in is almost too stupid to be believed. It seems like an anomaly, anyone correct me on that?
 
I'm going to be honest and say North Korea is the product of one of the most illogical and self centered people in human history. Everything Kim Jong Ill has done seems like ASB. The state North Korea exists in is almost too stupid to be believed. It seems like an anomaly, anyone correct me on that?

The same is true with China under Mao. The reason why OTL seems like a super China-wank in the past 30 years is because the previous 30 years (and the century before that) was a super China-screw.
 
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