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Saw this quote:

Taiwan exists because Mao decided to spend all his international capital on a Korean invasion rather than a Taiwan one, making the USA care about Taiwan again.

In an alternate dimension where Mao held back, we would have had a unified Korea and China, strange.

Is it feasible? Would Truman just let the ROC get conquered by amphibious invasion if Korea was left alone? And does that prevent the domino theory from ever being formulated? Mao defeating Chiang wouldn't be a different piece, it would just be an existing civil war wrapping up. The State Department and so on wouldn't be as alarmed by it as the prospect of the Reds attacking a separate country.
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