Kuomitang wins the Chinese Civil War

The problem is that I'm simply not sure if the KMT could have done land reforms effectively and they are pretty key to most successful developing economies. South Korea for instance carried out land reform simply by expropriating land from Japanese land owners after WWII. The KMT OTOH would have the land owning class as their key constituency and I don't see Chiang going against them when he doesn't have to.

He also wouldn't have five year plans, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and good relations with the largest economy on the planet. That more than mitigates the damage. China was an economic basketcase until Deng.
 
He also wouldn't have five year plans, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and good relations with the largest economy on the planet. That more than mitigates the damage. China was an economic basketcase until Deng.

Park Chung-hee had 5-year plans, and he wasn't communist...
 
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