WI: No Chinese intervention in the Korean War?

What if Peng Dehuai, the general who ended up commanding the Chinese war effort, chose not to support Mao's push for Chinese intervention, leaving only himself and Zhou Enlai supporting the intervention? Obviously, the Chinese would not intervene. But what would happen to Korea? Unification? Annexations for South Korea?
 

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Massive Red Purges that will probably have most of the socialist world and quite a few of other countries condemn Korea if things got out.
 
I am assuming that Chinese non intervention requires a political decision. Probably an absense of MacArthur and back channell contacts persuades Mao that it is safer to leave things and the US will not try to overthrow him

Obviously Korea is united under Southern leadership. I think it democratizes earlier and does just as well economically as South Korea did.

Query does winning the Korean War ensure Truman's re-election or at least give him a very good shot at it?
 
The Chinese got involved because they were worried the Americans would invade them after. To keep the Chinese out you would need to make them less paranoid
 
Macrthur stays in Japan, and some other General runs the war.

Some One willing to listen to the intelligence report and stops 200 miles from the border.
 
I am assuming that Chinese non intervention requires a political decision. Probably an absense of MacArthur and back channell contacts persuades Mao that it is safer to leave things and the US will not try to overthrow him

Obviously Korea is united under Southern leadership. I think it democratizes earlier and does just as well economically as South Korea did.

Query does winning the Korean War ensure Truman's re-election or at least give him a very good shot at it?

Rather than no MacArthur, howsabout no Mao? What if, upon hearing the news that the Americans had reached the Yalu and MacArthur was urging them to push on to Beijing, Mao has a heart attack (not killing, per se, but incapacitating him)? He was not a young man, after all. Only a few months later, the North Koreans finally surrender after having been beaten to a pulp by the Americans, and Korea is unified under the south. By the time China manages to reorganize itself, the West will already have one. And yes, that should seal Truman's reelection.
 
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