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So what if Chang Ki Shek had took the two China deal back in the 1960's? Would Taiwan be more internationally recognize and US would actually be able to actually officially work with the ROC more?
 
Don't forget that Chiang Kai Shek had fought since the early 20s to keep all of China as one piece. For him to suddenly renege on that without a major change in the status quo is implausible.

Perhaps, had the KMT routed the PLA at Huaihai, it could have led to a north-south division of China along the River Huai. That would have made a Two China scenario more plausible at least in the long term.
 
I think any 2 china solution would have to come from the us. Otl, by the time the us recognized the existence of red china, it was essentially too late. If the US had done some serious thought a few years earlier, and pushed Chiang hard then, while offerring the prospect of recognition to red china in exchange for acceptance of an independent taiwan, it would likely have been possible.
 
IF this happens then Red China gives up her claim on Taiwan and a Democratic Taiwan can convert to being the Republic of Taiwan and not the Republic of China. So by the 1990s, we have one China.
 
IF this happens then Red China gives up her claim on Taiwan and a Democratic Taiwan can convert to being the Republic of Taiwan and not the Republic of China. So by the 1990s, we have one China.

Not going to happen. There were and are again two Congos, were 3 Guianas, etc. Even today, Taiwan enters the olympics as "Chinese Taipei", if i remember correctly.
 
How about division back in the 1940s, like some proposed at the time? Have Nationalist China rule over the Cantonese South/Taiwan, and Red China take the North.
 
How about division back in the 1940s, like some proposed at the time? Have Nationalist China rule over the Cantonese South/Taiwan, and Red China take the North.

After the Communist decisive victory at Huaihai in December 1948, the KMT's best fighting forces were gone, and Chiang's last hope was to hold on as long as possible for the Cold War to turn hot, and then rely on massive US assistance (as if the US hadn't already given him massive assistance). Mao wasn't content with anything less than the entirety of China.
 

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How about division back in the 1940s, like some proposed at the time? Have Nationalist China rule over the Cantonese South/Taiwan, and Red China take the North.
Not going to happen

For most of the 40s it looked like the nationalist were the ones to win and thus had no incentive to surrender half the country, and then their collapse came so suddenly and completely that the communists similarly had no incentive to give up half the country.
 
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