Is 1949 too late to save China?

Does anyone have an idea of the numbers of US troops that would need to be deployed to halt the Communist advance?

What are the chances of nuclear weapons being used?
 

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Does anyone have an idea of the numbers of US troops that would need to be deployed to halt the Communist advance?

What are the chances of nuclear weapons being used?

*thinks* What was the US deployment in Korea ? Multiply that by five.

Nukes being used ? How badly do you want to delegitimise the RoC ?
 
Well, one commonality all of these have is their Leninist variants of Marxism which contains some aspects that scream authoritarian hierarchies. That isn't to say that if a Classical/Neo-Classical Marxist regime ever did manage to come to power it would manage to avoid the authoritarian/totalitarian trap, just that we don't have the data for it. One might argue that without the sort of leadership organization the Leninist model adds it becomes impossible for a Classical/Neo-Classical Marxist group to take power, making it something of a moot question.
Marxism without the leninist organization gets you masses of childish protestors. With leninism you end up with some sort of dictatorship.
 
Yes, it's by far too late.
Anyways I won't see a unified China under KMT being better, in terms of both human rights and general development than a Communist China.
 
No cultural revolution, which would be a big improvement. It'd probably still be a one-party democracy though as opposed to a western or even Iranian-style multiparty democracy.
 
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