WI - Spanish exiles in the Philippines?

So there's no way for the Carlist regime to last until World War 2? Let's say the Carlists in the Philippines do get some foreign patron (Japan, UK, US, etc.) that transforms them into a de-facto protectorate? What happens from there?

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That would mean effectively sacrificing relations with the Spanish in Spain. Who's more valuable? As I recently said in a thread discusing the viability of Nappy III setting up a similar regeime-in-exile, there's a reason most everybody with commerical dealings in the international community of note recognizes the PRC as the legit government instead of Taiwan. Sheer practicality makes recognizing the Carlists a burden with few practical benefits.

That, or over the course of the decades they've been effectively annexed and the figurehead King follows the marching orders of his sugar daddy to the letter.
 
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