ROC stays on, but like the PRC

How could you have the ROC stay in control of China, but in a fashion reminiscent to the PRC, so in 2009 China is a authoritarian-capitalist state that considers itself Nationalist, rather than Capitalist?
 
Uh well have the ROC win the civil war (how is for someone else to answer, maybe the PRC starts with the purge thing before they even win idk), then have America do some really morally dubious things (well much more so than rl), or just plain wrong. And to avoid the bad rep of capitalism the China says that they are national capitalist (that came out wrong).

Or maybe they get decent arms manufacturing up and during the cold war they try to expand into markets that arnt exactly friendly to America and the capitalist way so they say they are national capitalist or national socialist (and once again that came out wrong) so it doesnt sound like they are an American puppet.

Thats all i got, not really sure what your asking.
 
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Well Nationalist China likely would have ended up a quasi-fascist state had they won the civil war.
 
How could you have the ROC stay in control of China, but in a fashion reminiscent to the PRC, so in 2009 China is a authoritarian-capitalist state that considers itself Nationalist, rather than Capitalist?

Easy solution - don't lift martial law in the 1980s.
 
Well Nationalist China likely would have ended up a quasi-fascist state had they won the civil war.

They'll probably continue in that fashion for a good time, too. The KMT was just as authoritarian as the CCP in the outset, though they've moderated over time and opened up to democracy. I can see the same thing happening. Economic investment by foreign powers is almost going to require they do, especially if it's the United States doing the investing, IMO.
 
A ROC that wins the Chinese Civil War seems very likely to go down this route- Taiwan's democracy is in part, I think, a factor of the island's relatively small size and more educated population. I don't know if the same processes would really be likely to occur in a Nationalist China that controlled a substantial portion of the mainland.
 

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I think the most likely outcome of a nationalist victory would actually be something like the PRC today actually.
 
They'll probably continue in that fashion for a good time, too. The KMT was just as authoritarian as the CCP in the outset, though they've moderated over time and opened up to democracy. I can see the same thing happening. Economic investment by foreign powers is almost going to require they do, especially if it's the United States doing the investing, IMO.

Not really- so long as they remain an American ally during the Cold War the West isn't going to give a crap about internal Chinese politics.

A KMT run ROC would be as authoritarian as the modern PRC and far more corrupt.
 
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