DBWI: Italy-China Fascist Alliance Doesn't Happen in WWII, What Then?

As we all know, Mussolini's Italy and Chiang Kai-sek's China forged a major alliance in their efforts to protect their respective interests in Western Asia, as well as to ostensibly prevent Communist take-overs of allies and neighboring countries. The Anglo-Japanese Alliance was re-forged for the same reasons in the late 20s due to growing Soviet naval expertise, which they both feared would enable communist uprising in their territories.

Eventually, when WWII happened both these Alliances set aside their differences out of the need to take out Hitler, Horthy, and Stalin. A purpose the US joined in after the Black Easter attacks by the Soviets/PRC [1].

Of course after the war, the Cold War began in part because of Italy and RoC using similar methods to the Nazis and Soviets to rout communists AND ensuring their satellite states (Ethiopia, Iran, Turkey, Thailand, etc.) remained under their influence. Most notably Kai-sek's mass enslavement of suspected Communist sympathizers, which even extended to open atheists. Similar methods were employed by the fascist puppets Italy and China employed in the Middle East, Southern Europe, and Thailand.

[1] Long story short, Easter Sunday 1941 was when the USSR used naval planes to bomb Wake Island while the PRC/USSR forces in China stormed the American settlement in Shanghai.
 
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