Say that in 1941 the Japanese decide after pearl harbour that they must commit everything against the Americans and so sue for peace with Chiang and removing their forces from thier chinese controlled possestions in return for keeping Manchuria as a puppet. Will Chiangs nationalist china accept this deal. I think he would because this gives him the oppurtunity to focus ond estroying Mao Zedong and the commies and the other warlords, if so could the pacific war play out differently now that Japan doesn't have tis resources tied up in China, how different would the pacific war play out and is it even plausable.