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My bad, I meant 1927, not 1925.

No.

Quite a bit. Actually, I don't know to what degree; China was quite a toss pot at that point, and I don't claim to be an expert on all the various factions. LG?

Tell you what WOULD be interesting; if the Nationalists caught the entire Communist leadership, including Mao, at the massacre. That would have resulted in the end of the Communists, no question.

Or, if Chiang Kaishek decided not to gamble his forces in 1946. If he had just left Manchuria like it was, under the Soviet army (which might have made sense; ethnically speaking, Manchuria is not Chinese), or if he had not paused outside Harbin... In the former case, you'd get a small, North Korea like state under the Soviet thumb, and then the much more powerful Nationalists in the rest of the nation; in the second case, the Commies there just get wiped out.