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WI Mao started to send some CCP cadre to infiltrate Taiwan from shortly after the intent for Taiwan to go back to China is announced in 1943?

I imagine he could send a set of very low key underground agents during the war to set up a clandestine organization.

Meanwhile he could make an effort to aim propaganda at Taiwanese soldiers in the Japanese army and other Taiwanese working in the mainland, especially anybody who becomes a prisoner of the communists.

With the wars ending the CCP can pick up the pace of organizing hideouts and bases on the island. Some undercover agents serving in the KMT army and administration could be sent. For most of the civil war the network could be a back burner effort while the main fighting is in the northeast and north. However, the CCP could try to capitalize on the feb 1947 incident.

However as we get to late 48 and early 49 as the main fighting moves to the Yangtze and guerrilla bases and activity in south China are reinforced, Mao invests even more in CCP in Taiwan, making a decent size rural base.

With all this set up could the CCP conquer Taiwan along with the rest of the southern provinces in the summer and autumn of '49?

If not that, could he have at least a strong enough guerrila movement going and possibly more navy defectors and have this result in a successful cross straits invasion before June 1950?
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