WI Japan kept Taiwan

Industrialization is not the result of cost of labor... if it was then the Southern US would have industrialized first with its free labor, and the French would have industrialized before the British. And no, you have it reversed, dynasties were the abnormality in centralizing, most dynasties couldnt even control their own provinces without constant negotiating with local warlords to acknowledge the capital. By 1941 most of the major cities in that core Han area were already conquered such as Shanghai. Industrialization doesnt just "happen", the Japanese wont let have the Chinese have the time, money, outside technical support or resources to build weapons factories, they'd bomb them before being done. This isnt the Soviet Union building factories in the Urals.

And Tibet was independent already and the other peripherals you mention were Japanese occupied already; Taiwan for instance was already under Japanese control for almost two generations.

And as the Alexander, the Romans, the British, and Mongolians proved- population doesnt matter in war. Dont know why you think it does.
Nor is war as paramount as you make it out to be. Yunnan was under control of the NRA throughout the war.

Second, population plays a factor in easier industrialization because of the specific situation I stated in my original post which you quoted. The situation involved a united China without the second sino Japanese war, in which China would have to pursue industrialization, meaning China would have the resources and technology it could purchase from the outside world. This also means that CKS would logically make use of the large population in China as a selling point to industrialists.

Finally, dynasties were not the abnormality. The negotiation with local warlords came in times of instability, such as the late Tang, late Qing and the late Han. Before their decline, dynastic rule was centralized and ruthless--centralization which frequently involved civil wars and purges to solidify. After their decline and growth in reigonal power, the nation would break up in a lull of warlords and reunify once more. China spends far more time united than shattered.
 
Difficult. Not impossible, but close. Either Japan will have to somehow get the Chinese to recognize the Annexation permanently either through purchase or some other method, like a 499 year lease or install a puppet government in Nanjing/Beijing that allows the Japanese to keep the Island.

As you can see today, the PRC is quite determined to get back all the territory it deems to be Chinese, even if they have to go it insane lengths to do it.

The PRC gave up claims over Outer Mongolia, Outer Manchuria (incl. Heixiazi Island and Sixty-Four Villages East of the River), and Sakharin to the Russians; Large track of lands in the Changbai Mountains to the North Koreans, Fushuizhou Island to the Vietnamese, Jiangxinpo and Nankan to the Burmese, etc.. All historical territories controlled by Chinese Dynasties.

It's unlikely, but not impossible, that Taiwan would have been given up in certain circumstances. Like a Communist government installed in Japan.

It's important to stress that in the eyes of "international community". the PRC might have done too much in those land disputes, but in the eyes of its own citizens, the government have often been deemed weak, overtly concession-happy, and not doing enough to restore historical Chinese territories.
 
Rally? So the Chinese population see their government as weak in land disputes? Even with the virtual seizing of large tracts of sea due to some worthless rocks. Because from here the Chinese land grab is more brazen than anything the Russians have ever done with Crimea. And the countries here are quite pro-Chinese but they still see it as a cynical maneuver.
 
Rally? So the Chinese population see their government as weak in land disputes? Even with the virtual seizing of large tracts of sea due to some worthless rocks. Because from here the Chinese land grab is more brazen than anything the Russians have ever done with Crimea. And the countries here are quite pro-Chinese but they still see it as a cynical maneuver.
The seeming abandonment on the CCP's part of Outer Manchuria and Outer Mongolia are what's causing the view that the government is weak.
 
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