Cold War without Red China

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There is quite a high chance of KMT China invading French Indochina and setting up a puppet government in North Vietnam. You are underestimating China's anti colonial streak with its history of unequal treaties and a world order dominated by white supremacy Post WW2 dependent on when Nationalist China wins the French would not be able to resist the Chinese and would be forced out by them instead of the Vietnamese. Of course this could lead to a Vietnamese communist insurgency against the Chinese, which could have all kinds of other Geo Political effects.
FDR offered Chiang control of Indochina. Chiang's response was "certainly not!".
 
Chiang could join SEATO, that could certainly help the organization survive and gain more legitimacy. I’d think the Soviets would have probably just have pivoted towards the Middle East and Africa, maybe even India. Honestly, the Cold War May have been even cooler, but the USA was looking for a enemy in the Soviets and they were more or less gonna find one. The American government had already mostly pivoted to communism being the major foreign and domestic threat by the time of the Marshall Plan. IOTL it was China, but it could have easily have been Hungary, Cuba or Iran that sparked the Red Scare.
 

kernals12

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Chiang could join SEATO, that could certainly help the organization survive and gain more legitimacy. I’d think the Soviets would have probably just have pivoted towards the Middle East and Africa, maybe even India. Honestly, the Cold War May have been even cooler, but the USA was looking for a enemy in the Soviets and they were more or less gonna find one. The American government had already mostly pivoted to communism being the major foreign and domestic threat by the time of the Marshall Plan. IOTL it was China, but it could have easily have been Hungary, Cuba or Iran that sparked the Red Scare.
SEATO might not even be necessary with no serious communist threat in the region. And China didn't start the red scare, the October Revolution did that.
 
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