Maybe, but slower. OTL the KMT had two sources of pressure on them to democratize- criticism from the US, and, more importantly, the need to co-opt ethnic Taiwanese who would otherwise be attracted to the Independence movement.
As rulers of mainland China, the KMT would be much less reliant on the US- they could play their own "Soviet Card", and they could, like the present day CCP, use the size and still-large areas of underdevelopment away from the coast to argue that China wasn't ready.
Maybe a Singapore-style "guided" democracy.
As rulers of mainland China, the KMT would be much less reliant on the US- they could play their own "Soviet Card", and they could, like the present day CCP, use the size and still-large areas of underdevelopment away from the coast to argue that China wasn't ready.
Maybe a Singapore-style "guided" democracy.