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IOTL, the Huaihai campaign was one of the last truly "balanced" battles between nationalist and communist forces in the Chinese Civil War. The KMT's army would eventually be surrounded and defeated by the communists (something due to Chiang-Kai-Shek's plans being leaked by CCP spies).
But what if the KMT had achieved a decisive victory in the battle?
-Would the KMT be able to grind the communists down to a stalemate at the Yangtse river? Would we see a China divided between a communist north and a right-wing south, and if so, how would that affect power plays in the Cold War?
-If the above scenario is possible, then what happens to Korea and Tibet?
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