Chiang dies and the Kuomintang doesn't attack Manchuria

My scenario is that Chiang Kai-Shek is killed in 1942, in Burma, as he almost was, read https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...ek-suddenly-dies-in-1943.302739/#post-8667538 and General Chen Cheng succeeds him. Then, after World War II ends, unlike Chiang, Chen doesn't invade Manchuria, thus, not destroying the Kuomintang's best forces.
How does a Kuomintang China, without Manchuria, develop?
How does it affect the Cold War?
How does it affect the Korean War and the Vietnam War, specifically?
 
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Kaze

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It would have to do with the other gorilla in the room as well - how is the health of Mao?
If Chen crushes Mao - which might happen, if he was not totally incompetent. If Mao is crushed -> no Vietnam, or at least Vietnam would be negotiated (as it should have been before US involvement).
As for a free Manchuria - the state would have problems itself - it would either topple towards Chen's sphere of influence or that of the Soviets. I expect more the latter than the former - as soon as it does, any hope for a divided Korea would die. The South would conquer all of the peninsula forcing the Kims and their supporters into a "friendly" soviet sphere such as Manchuria. Another words - North Korea just moved north a little more.
 
It would have to do with the other gorilla in the room as well - how is the health of Mao?
If Chen crushes Mao - which might happen, if he was not totally incompetent. If Mao is crushed -> no Vietnam, or at least Vietnam would be negotiated (as it should have been before US involvement).
As for a free Manchuria - the state would have problems itself - it would either topple towards Chen's sphere of influence or that of the Soviets. I expect more the latter than the former - as soon as it does, any hope for a divided Korea would die. The South would conquer all of the peninsula forcing the Kims and their supporters into a "friendly" soviet sphere such as Manchuria. Another words - North Korea just moved north a little more.

No offense but I'm not sure you understood what I said. My scenario is that Chen Cheng, unlike Chiang, doesn't invade Manchuria and reluctantly accepts the existence of a rump communist state there.
Thus, the Chinese Civil War is over, with Chen Cheng ruling most of China but with Mao ruling a rump communist state in Manchuria.
 

Kaze

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No where in the OP did it say anything about the end of the Chinese Civil War. But... if we are going that way - my premise holds - where North Korea moves north.
 
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