User blog comment:Saturn120/What if Operation Unthinkable Was Executed?/@comment-9348874-20140505102653

For China, Nationalist China is extremely corrupt and the army is terrible (A Chinese Army lost against a smaller Japanese army despite being fully supplied by America). Moreover, U.S.A might give less support to China because of the larger size of the war in Europe and the Marshall Plan to stop European civilians from joining Communism. Meanwhile, Communist China is mostly supplied in the form of captured Japanese weapondry by the Soviets. As Japanese rifles are much weaker than Soviet ones and Japanese artillery are much smaller than Soviet's, it is likely that the Soviet Union would leave the Japanese weapons to Communist China. With more support from peasants and Japanese weapondry, Communist China might be able to defeat Nationalist China, which has less support than in OTL, quickly and has a greater possibility of capturing Chiang Kai Shek, due to his underestimation of the speed of the Communist attack.

China and the Soviet Union can later support the DPRK to subdue to the ROK, which is also lacking from the amount of support given in the Korean War. After Communism takes control of Korea with China supplying superior numbers, Japan is threatened by China. Meanwhile, the Soviet Far East navy may be enough to protect Chinese and Korean landing on Japan through the Korea Strait. China would likely not collapse, as most Chinese had always thought the ending of WW2 as unfair (China didn't get any war reparations and Japanese generals who committed war crimes in China are not as punished as those who committed war crimes towards Western civilians) and it would be seen as a strike back towards Imperialistic Powers for the first time since 1840. As U.S and Japanese forces are combating Chinese and Korean soldiers in Kyushu, the Soviets would be able to take Hokkaido from Sakhalin and threaten American holdings in Japan.

China would not be bogged down to stabilise the mainland, as it would be mostly done by the armed peasants taking land from the landlords by themselves, and thus, would not need a significant military force. This can be seen in the Land Reforms in OTL China in 1949-1953, which, although caused the death of a million landlord families, was able to stabilize China and allow the 400 millions of peasants to trust and support the Communist Party.

Meanwhile, the speedy capture of Tibet and Sinkiang in OTL by the communist army may also mean that Central Asia, South East Asia and India would be threatened by Communist China. South East Asia would be the first to fall, due to the large amount of communist guerillas in the area and Central Asia would possibly be next due to the attack from China and the Soviet Union.