RollingWave
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There is too much assumption that must go into this, the Nationalist lost due to huge and complex reasons that is deeply tied to how they came to be in the first place, it was hardly just the case of CCP army flat out beating the KMT army on even terms, if they overcame the CCP at that particular point in time something must have changed dramatically.
But if we look pass that, and purely in terms of possible geo politics implications...
Taiwan wouldn't be seperated, because it was given back to the KMT in the first place, and was really the one place the CCP couldn't touch (seriously) to begin with.
North Korea probably won't exist, and the Vietnam war probably would have not happened in the same matter, in both war efforts the logistical backing from China was abosalutely essential.
as for Tibet, most likely still part of China though maybe in slightly different circumstances (like the Dalai not going into exile etc), the KMT, and basically every central government that existed after the 1911 essentially consider that they inherit whatever land the Qing dynasty held, unless more modern official treaty declared otherwise.
One possibility is Mongolia, since it officially gone independent during the civil war period with a large large dose of USSR manipulation involved, if the KMT had won they might have made a more serious attempt to retake it.
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With that said, even as a residence of Taiwan (or maybe because I'm a resident of Taiwan), looking at this part of history , it really offered very very little chance for the KMT to succeed in the civil war, they had made way too many comprimises in their desperate attempt to retake power from the warlords, and was stuck with a completely war shattered country that was very very poor to begin with, the hyper inflation that hit was completely inevitable and they didn't have the tools to do much about it (it hit almost everyone, but China being unstable to begin with made it much worse).
In military terms, they miiiight have done a little better but it was really just stalling the inevitable, in real outcome the KMT was so inflitrated by CCP spies or KMT officers who were simply disillusioned that it was basically like Mao was playing Chang in a RTS game with map hack on.
But if we look pass that, and purely in terms of possible geo politics implications...
Taiwan wouldn't be seperated, because it was given back to the KMT in the first place, and was really the one place the CCP couldn't touch (seriously) to begin with.
North Korea probably won't exist, and the Vietnam war probably would have not happened in the same matter, in both war efforts the logistical backing from China was abosalutely essential.
as for Tibet, most likely still part of China though maybe in slightly different circumstances (like the Dalai not going into exile etc), the KMT, and basically every central government that existed after the 1911 essentially consider that they inherit whatever land the Qing dynasty held, unless more modern official treaty declared otherwise.
One possibility is Mongolia, since it officially gone independent during the civil war period with a large large dose of USSR manipulation involved, if the KMT had won they might have made a more serious attempt to retake it.
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With that said, even as a residence of Taiwan (or maybe because I'm a resident of Taiwan), looking at this part of history , it really offered very very little chance for the KMT to succeed in the civil war, they had made way too many comprimises in their desperate attempt to retake power from the warlords, and was stuck with a completely war shattered country that was very very poor to begin with, the hyper inflation that hit was completely inevitable and they didn't have the tools to do much about it (it hit almost everyone, but China being unstable to begin with made it much worse).
In military terms, they miiiight have done a little better but it was really just stalling the inevitable, in real outcome the KMT was so inflitrated by CCP spies or KMT officers who were simply disillusioned that it was basically like Mao was playing Chang in a RTS game with map hack on.