WI: Mao Dies in 1947

Mao Zedong dies of a heart attack, or something, in 1947. How does Communist China evolve from there? Will it tow the Moscow line more?
 

Sumeragi

Banned
Assuming his successor is Zhou Enlai, I can still see the PRC being established, but no Korean War.
 
With Mao death in 1947, how end the Chines Civil war ? (capitalist vrs Communist)
will the Republic of China (capitalist) stay in south china ? OTL they end up in Taiwan

with out Mao and Zhou Enlai head of C.P.
Communism of China will be Sovjet dominated

on Korea war, it will happen
and US will move by mistake on Chinas territory (thank to bad maps)
Communist china has to obligation to defend there territory...
 
I'll have to dismiss this with a statement that it is done with no knowledge of why the Korean War is launched.

Speaking of which, I just realized that I don't really know why the Korean War stared.

Why did NK choose to launch a huge cross-border invasion at that time, and how much did it have to do with China?
 

Sumeragi

Banned
Speaking of which, I just realized that I don't really know why the Korean War stared.

Why did NK choose to launch a huge cross-border invasion at that time, and how much did it have to do with China?
Long story short:

Kim went to Stalin, begging for aids for the war. Stalin said "Only if Mao said he would back you up, and even then I'll just give you weapons". Because Mao was heavily indebted to both Kim (DPRK backed up Mao during the Civil War, and provided the initial troops that helped Mao break out of Manchuria) and Stalin (need I say more), and combined with Mao's personality, agreed to help Kim out, thus setting the stage for the war.


If Mao wasn't around, it's unlikely any of the other Chinese leaders would have felt as indebted to either Kim or Stalin, and as such would have most likely refused to support Kim until after Taiwan was conquered. This means that Kim would never have gotten as much necessary weapons for the invasion, and also would have never gotten permission from Stalin to launch the war. In short, the existence of Mao and her particular personality was fundamental in getting the war agreed upon.
 
While as a Hong Konger, I would pretty much want Mao die as a child; Mao should not have died later than early 1937 (say no Xi'an Incident, even thorough failure of the Long March), or it would be too late to prevent a Communist takeover. Yes, it is true that the Korean War would have turned out differently or that Kim Il-sung simply would not invade the South without Mao; but I would prefer Taiwan being ruled by Nationalists rather than Communists:p
 
Long story short:

Kim went to Stalin, begging for aids for the war. Stalin said "Only if Mao said he would back you up, and even then I'll just give you weapons". Because Mao was heavily indebted to both Kim (DPRK backed up Mao during the Civil War, and provided the initial troops that helped Mao break out of Manchuria) and Stalin (need I say more), and combined with Mao's personality, agreed to help Kim out, thus setting the stage for the war.
Also Stalin had earlier agreed to return some naval ports to China, that were vital to Russia's Pacific navy. Stalin needed some new ones made available before the handover and thought that some Korean ports would be great. So he agreed with Kim on the idea into invading South Korea. But Stalin realized it would be bad Russia provided too much help, so he pulled China into it.
Mao not quite so happy about this idea but was reminded of the favours he owed, plus threats of Russia deciding to forget about handing the ports back to China. He was also told that North Korea would win quickly and China wouldn't have to do that much work.

At least this is according to a Chinese historian I saw online.
 
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