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Im legitimately suprised you actually decided to go through with it. Especially with a Nationalist Rework coming in the 0.4 update. Still major fucking props good job stak

Welp, I think now is the good question on "If the Ottomans were more competent during ww1" since thats the second most liked suggestion? anyone?

What if the Stresa front was successful? (Italy🇮🇹 France🇫🇷 Britain🇬🇧 against Germany🇩🇪 to defend Austria 🇦🇹)
Please it's my favorite alternative scenario and there aren't many good videos on it

A possibly good What If could be: What if the Warsaw Uprising was Successful (I know realistically the soviets would probably come in and crush them/take over) Just thought it would be kinda cool to learn the possibility of its success.

Stak, I don't think you give Chiang Kai Chek enough credit.  The man knew things like land reform were necessary, but he also knew that engaging in reforms while the chaos of the Chinese Civil War and the 2nd Sino-Japanese War was foolish when he needed to balance the various interests within his government.

And of course once the conflicts were over and Chiang started to engage those reforms, you are absolutely right that they would be relatively limited and take place in fits and starts.  But Chiang definitely would've done so.  The man was no fool.  He knew the benefits of land reform, if only in a limited capacity.  It can be very difficult to separate the man from the state he governed.  China of the 1930s and 40s was horribly backward and corrupt and Chiang knew this needed to be fixed if China was to survive and ultimately thrive.

The funny thing about the Communists as compared to the KMT, they didn't need to work within the preexisting system in order to implement reforms, whereas the KMT did.

What if Gorbachev could finish his reforms on the Soviet Union and prevent a total collapse?

We reclaiming the mainland with this one

Hello stakuyi! I'm one of the writers for this mod and am happy to inform you that China is getting a massive overhaul in the next update, which is why the Nationalist Focus Tree looks so messy; it's the old one.

colonel cam actually defended shanghai and did this legit

One thing that most don’t mention was the history between the CCP and the KMT. The leadership of both sides were all alumni and sometimes even classmates from the Huangpu military academy (the kmt accepted military training from the soviets in the early days before Chang Kai purged them). This made it incredibly easy for kmt generals to defect, after all, your classmates will never kill you. After the war, people found out that many of Chang Kai’s general staff where sympathetic to the CCP all along. It’s no wonder they lost.

There's one smart thing I think Chiang Kai Chek could have done to secure a lot of loyalty from the warlords AND improve relations with the west. During the wars leading up to 1949 (you covered this in the history behind the Chinese economic crisis) was that the various warlords paid for their troops and equipment with promisary notes to outside powers (the warlord bonds I think they were called). This was debt that had to be later recognized by the CCP in order to enter the global financial community. What Chang COULD have done was offer to take on the debt of the warlords in lieu of actual cash payments, thus basically bribing them with a clean slate in exchange for loyalty, and not deepening the economic crisis as the state would have had to pay it anyways. This does several things that would help the autocratic government maintain control:
1. The bribes help prop up warlord loyalty because well...they're bribes.
2. centralizing the debt to the state itself probably would significantly boost economic investment because it means that the investors only have to deal with one major debt holder which is an actual government rather than dozens of warlords... increasing the ease of acquiring payments back on those debt.
3. If the state is holding all of the debt these warlords accrued, then you end up with almost a hostage debtor situation where debtor countries like the United States don't want to lose out on their investment, and so they would be more willing to invest even more funds/assistance to the Chinese Republic in order to make sure the state stays around to make good on that debt payment. You can't collect debt from the corpse of a nation.
4. with the central government receiving increased investments, this may incentivize even more warlord stability as the Warlords know that the central government is the one getting the money from outside countries, so staying loyal means a steady paycheck.

This wouldn't be a magic bullet, but it would likely be a proactive move that would payback massive dividends.

Great video as always Stak. Can't wait for the next one.

(Using the Great War Redux again) What if Italy honored the Triple Alliance and eventually joined the Central Powers when WWI comes around?

Nationalist China, known in our timeline as both Taiwan, and the True Republic of China.

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you should've waited until the 0.4 update for this one.

Can you make a what if video where Portugal honors its alliance with the UK and joins ww2?

What if McArthur got his way and the US & allies invaded China during the Korean war?

What if the Allies acutally went for Operation: Unthinkable? As well, unthinkable, as the idea was, i think it would be interesting to think about how it would pan out.

What if Hungary joined the allies?

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