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If China had been actually directly carved up thanks to, for example, an early total collapse of the Qing, how would it differ today? Would there be a collection of independent states in place of a single unified China? Would there be liberal democratic governments and earlier modernization like Singapore and Hong Kong without communism holding them back?
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>>2428495
>communism held china back
If Chiang had remained in charge of China, then it would resemble India or Nigeria now
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>>2428576
That depends on whether he would eventually have been able to end warlordism. But seriously, dumb shit like the Great Leap Forward was definitely holding China back.
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>>2428576
>If Chiang had remained in charge of China, then it would resemble India or Nigeria now
Why that and not a giant Taiwan?
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>>2428576
I dunno. Imagine if Chiang goes and tells the US all the warlords are actually socialists in disguise and actually creating 'soviets' in the ivllages of china.
THey'd probably give him a blank cheque of military hardware with which to take back China.
Counter factual history is dumb.
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>>2431204
Or maybe the US would have just invaded and turned it into Vietnam 0.5.
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>>2431204
The American military advisors hated Chiang, their biased accounts of him are part of why the fiction that the KMT was more interested in fighting the CCP than the Japanese persisted for so long.
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>>2433915
Well the CCP was more interested in fighting the KMT than the Japanese. So Chiang wasn't too off the mark there to be worried about the Communists.
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