Mongolian SSR

Given Mongolia's profound dependence on the Soviet Union, Mongolian leaders had several times proposed that Mongolia join the Soviet Union, yet Soviet leaders, wary of harming ties with Mao's China, were not supportive.

In the late 1920s, radical western Mongols...resented Khalka domination and proposed that western Mongolia and Tuva together join the Soviet Union. In the 1940s and early 1950s the Soviet-trained technocrats under Choibalsang repeatedly qustioned whether socialism could be built in Mongolia without joining the Soviet Union. The procurator B. Jambaldorj raised the possibility in 1944, when Tuva joined the Soviet Union, and Daramyn Tomorochir and Yumjaagin Tsedenbal raised it again late in Choibalsang's life.

Choibalsang himself violently opposed such ideas, but after his death the Mongolian Politburo in 1953 approved unification, only to be rebuked by V. M. Molotov for their 'simple-minded error.' In the mid-1970s the Soviet ruler Leonid Brezhnev sounded out his Mongolian counterpart Tsedenbal about this issue. By then, however, the very success of Mongolian industrialization with Soviet aid had decreased Mongolia's perceived need for unification, and the issue was dropped.

My PoD is what if the Mongolians had joined the USSR in 1944 along with Tuva? This could a major issue since China still pressed it's claims on Mongolia.
 
Not a war, but close to it. China will want to ally with the US earlier. This will probably exclude Taiwan, maybe causing a chinese taiwan.
 
Not a war, but close to it. China will want to ally with the US earlier. This will probably exclude Taiwan, maybe causing a chinese taiwan.

Something close to a war during World War II? Not very likely. China and the USSR didn't come close to war over Tuva despite Tuva being part of the area claimed by China. At this point in time the USA is still looking to have the USSR enter the war against Japan and China is a bit more concerned about Japan's military activities than anything going on in Mongolia and Tuva. China certainly won't like it and will raise a fuss after the war, but during 1944 China is very unlikely to raise much official protest.

Don't see how any of this will change what happens in China afterwards unless Mao decides to part ways with Stalin over the issue, still don't see that happening since Mongolia was independent all that time and Mao didn't go off in a huff over it and Stalin's support of a separate Mongolia.
 
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