As we all know, the Nationalists won the Chinese Civil War and took control of all of China, but what if the Nationalists lost the Civil War and the Communists had taken over? What PODs might be needed for such a scenario? How would the Cold War be affected without the Republic of China being a "third superpower"/unaligned kingmaker? Could a hypothetical Communist China have filled said role? Or would the role have been filled by India or someone else?