Can anyone come up with POD's that could save the KMT from ultimate defeat and retreat to Taiwan? I came up with four:
- Mao dies in the Autumn Harvest Uprising of 1927 and is replaced bu Zhu De, the founder of the Chinese Red Army
- Zhou Enlai goes to Moscow for training as a revolutionary (instead of to Paris where he coordinates an effort of coordinating CPC and KMT factions in Europe which then leads to him going back to China and being appointed a position in the Whampoa Academy where he rises in the ranks of the CPC) and remains there as a sort of organizer and guide for other traveling Chinese in Russia, no Zhou Enlai, no spyring
- Mo Xiong is captured and exposed to be a Communist spy. The intelligence he provides IOTL never reaches the CPC HQ's in Jiagnxi and Sichuan), Chiang's offensives work in defeating the CPC. The CPC is gone before the Japanese invade.
- No Operation August Storm and the Chinese get to harness Manchurian industry to the fullest during the Civil War.