No Sino-Soviet Split

AFAIK the Sino-Soviet split happened because the USSR wanted to subjugate the Chinese into second position in the Stallinist hierarchy. What if they remained firm strong allies?
 
This is very difficult to do. The gap between the CCP and the Stalinists-Soviets went all the way back to the 1920s when the USSR preferred the GMD even after the Chinese Civil War saw the Communists attacked by GMD forces. The later course of that civil war and the USSR's role in it only further fueled that animosity as Stalin never developed any particular liking for Mao. In the 1950s, without Stalin, the gap finally went to an outright split. To make a long story short a significant change in this process will have massive butterflies and predate WWII.
 
We've had this thread quite a few times. The conclusion I've drawn is that to attempt to avert the Sino-Soviet Split at the latest, you'd need to change the post-Stalin leadership. Best case scenario is to have Molotov on top, (sans Beria and Malenkov, good luck with that). I say "attempt" because the Split was more so due to the PRC desiring more independence from Moscow. Its more plausible to have the Split delayed because as China gets stronger, its becomes less palatable to take direction from the Soviet Union.

As Snake said, you're going to have to change a lot pre-WWII.
 

WeisSaul

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Very difficult. The Chinese were... proud to say the least, and as such they never would have wanted to play second fiddle in a communist empire. The Russians would have needed something to keep them from being able to break away, rather than coercing them to stick around.

-The Soviets merge Meingjiang and Manchukuo into an independent People's Republic of Manchuria. With just Manchuria bordering Korea, the communists are kicked out of the north because Mao doesn't have to worry about Americans on his border.

-Annex the two Independent East Turkestan republics in western China as the East Turkestan SFSR

-Covertly support an independent Tibet that would be pro-Soviet, even if under Dali Llama leadership. He today is a self proclaimed Marxist so it could work.

-Have the RoC keep Hainan and the Leizhou peninsula with Kwang-Chou-Wan

The middle Kingdom would end up in the middle of Western allies (Japan, Korea, RoC) and the Soviet Union and its puppets (Mongolia, East Turkestan, Manchuria, and Tibet)

You end up with an incredibly insecure China that is surrounded by Soviet troops and allies on almost all sides, and American troops and allies on the other. While America can hit the coasts and blockade China, Russia can just steamroll through it. Soviet puppet Manchuria would be the only thing keeping American troops in Korea from marching into China, and the Soviets can storm into China from the mountains of Tibet or through the plains of Manchuria.
 
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