User blog comment:Callumthered/Independent Manchuria?/@comment-24564179-20120128154649/@comment-1310192-20120128163456

Not at all. See the connection between Manchuria and China? See the lack thereof in Taiwan? The Nationalists fled there because China lacked a navy or nearly did so and they could defend themselves more easily there. That's why they didn't flee to a more rich state like, say, Guangdong, Shangai or Shaanxi. Zedong would've fled to Taiwan if he had lost. Plus, since Manchuria is the only true land bridge between China and the outside world, the winning side of the war wouldn't ever allow a defeated side to be established there.