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WI the US refused to airlift/sealift Chinese Nationalist troops from western China deep into Japanese occupied northern China and Manchuria after VJ Day?

The US is still willing to give the Chinese Nationalist regime all the arms, credits and reconstruction goods it did in OTL.

The US Order #1, instead of directing Japanese troops south of the Great Wall to hold their positions until the arrival Nationalist troops to take their surrender, directs the Japanese troops in north of the Yellow River to march to a few coastal concentration points in Shandong and Hebei provinces, for disarmament by contingents of US Marines and follow on embarkation and repatriation.

Do Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists do worse than OTL in political competition or military conflict with the Communists or better than OTL?

I'll define terms:

The OTL "baseline" is the Chinese Civil War escalates in 45-46 and the CCP defeats the KMT on the mainland by late 1949.

The Nationalists doing "better" than OTL is them ending up with more territory than OTL (so more than Taiwan) or suffering fewer casualties, or holding on to mainland territory for longer than OTL.

The Nationalists doing "worse" than OTL is them losing all their mainland territory earlier than OTL or at a higher cost in casualties.

I encourage you to answer the poll and explain your rationale for your vote.
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