Hmmm... I've always been wary of the PRI's claims - certainly since the fall of the USSR, they seem to have lessened their ideological bent. It's far from 'Communism in name only' as their supporters claim, but until Bardhan took office it wasn't unusual for them to be to the right of the Russian Federation (surely a case of 'Communism in all but name').
And it still doesn't change the fact that Armchair Republicans are still using the phrase 'Soviet' to refer to all of non-Chinese Asia when in fact it referred to one state that ceased to exist in 1973 and a few of its long-defunct (okay, not Poland or Armenia, sheesh) satellite states.
China would use all their resources in order to re-claim Taiwan by 1990 in ATL (If Taiwan had declared independence). Probably China would invade Taiwan in all cost and war would broke out if KMT will surrender to the CPC and after the war, China would emerge as a winner and Taiwan would restore as a province of China in ATL unlike in OTL that Taiwan is a separate entity.