I've seen a lot of people claim that if Nationalist China win the CCW, then China would be a much bigger of Taiwan or South Korea. The problem is, China is dirt poor in the 1950s, while Taiwan and SK already had some development under Japan, not to mention that Taiwan and SK are small and thus, easier to industrialize. And also, how would Chiangkaishek deal with all those warlords? Sure internal warlord fighting was gone by WW2, but much of China was still under autonomous rule by local leaders. And what about being hated by 90% of China's population? How could they effectively have conquered that, especially considering China's huge population?