Alternate chinese civil war

Point of divergence.
china:1912

sun-yat-sen has beeb elected the first president of the "as of now"unreconized republic of china while the monarchy is still in controll over most of china so sun went into talks with yuan shikai and the deal was sun would resign from president and allow yuan to take his place in exchage for yuan who was prime minister to force the monarchy to abdicate,in our timeline sun took the deal with 2 condicions but in this alternate timeline sun refuses the deal so that means there's an early civil war and japan was invovled in ww1  so that means germanys east asian squadron is atacked and so the civil war is put on hold  so china could defend themselves ageints japan but after that its mostly the same,yuan dies as a prime minister rather than self crowned empirer after ruining a constitusinal monarky instead of republic,sun gets help from the u.s.s.r  starting a revouluion rather than a civil war in a nation that is not acualy reconised by the world  and the peoples republic of china is far smaller and is not reconised by the rest of the world including the rest of china.