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  1. Was it possible for the Chinese Nationalists to win the Chinese Civil War?

    Okay, I concede. Chiang was Sun's handpicked candidate to head the Whampoa Acadamy, basically the head of the military wing of the then-left-wing KMT in 1925. Despite many loathings Chiang received, this Whampoa-trained force was the best in China between the Northern Expedition to Battle of...

  2. Map Thread XII

    I guess "d." is Hong Kong, but you forgot to label it.

  3. 1900 map

    There's a wiki for that, although it's not always up-to-date. Here's one, for example, but it's rather old (3yrs):

  4. WI/AHC: No battle of Iwo Jima

    Had the author even bothered to read up the battle of Shumshu? USSR launched amphibious attacks on already surrendered enemies and suffer higher causualties than IJA. Had the response from Tokyo been "Fight to the last men." than "Errm, we've already surrendered, so go ahead.", it would a...

  5. WI/AHC: No battle of Iwo Jima

    I've never heard of this before. The IJA had dug in and entrenched to deal maximum damage to any invasions, it's only the nukes that told them that this preparation is futile as the US had the capability to annihilate Japanese without boots on the ground.

  6. WI/AHC: No battle of Iwo Jima

    IOTL two nukes made the Japanese government tipped toward surrender, but just barely. I don't think mere firebombing could achieve that before nukes.

  7. WI/AHC: No battle of Iwo Jima

    How? Operation Downfall?

  8. WI/AHC: No battle of Iwo Jima

    That's possible. Probably no one expected that the HQ of the Ogasawara garrison corps is located in the most remote frontline island rather than in the archipelago closer to Honshu.

  9. Sino-German Alliance with Allies & Soviet vs Japan 1945

    1. That is, of course, Japan, then China 2. Why? So, they should ally with a country that can keep USSR in check, not someone buddy-buddy with them.

  10. WI/AHC: No battle of Iwo Jima

    From zeppelinair's article, it claimed that not a single B29 was even shot down by Japan near Iwo Jima, and the air defence in Iwo Jima is pratically inexistent: "From August 1944 through February 1945, 2,800 B-24 Liberator sorties flew directly over Iwo Jima to bomb the airfields, and only 9...

  11. Sino-German Alliance with Allies & Soviet vs Japan 1945

    No, Japan would not start a full scale war in China if Germany was not allied to Japan and hostile to the Soviet Union, because they knew that if USSR attacks them when they were busy fighting in China, they will lose. There would be no Pearl Harbor if Japan didn't occupy South East Asia, and...

  12. Was it possible for the Chinese Nationalists to win the Chinese Civil War?

    Have you even tried to read it? "1. National and communist forces to remain in present positions." "... but national troops to refrain from occupying them." Chiang's strategy of combating the communists was surround and destroy. You open a hole there and the plan falls apart.

  13. Sino-German Alliance with Allies & Soviet vs Japan 1945

    I mean there would be no war if Germany didn't support Japan, because Japan needed Germany to distract USSR.

  14. Sino-German Alliance with Allies & Soviet vs Japan 1945

    With no Germany to tie down Soviets, the Kwantung Army would not be able to carry on an all-out attack in China, as they'll be certainly fighting a two-front war. The whatever incident that might lead to war ITTL would end like the Triple Intervention.

  15. Was it possible for the Chinese Nationalists to win the Chinese Civil War?

    Not really. Nationalist forces had driven the Communists from the southern half of Manchuria when Marshall demanded Chiang to make a truce with Mao.

  16. Was it possible for the Chinese Nationalists to win the Chinese Civil War?

    Or not have Marshall pulling Chiang's legs when he was winning?

  17. The Chinese Communists flee to Taiwan instead of the Nationalists

    They had no time to build up a network in Taiwan. The pre-war Taiwanese leftists had mostly been absorbed by the establishment and had no connections with the mainland Communists anyway. Setting up new cells isn't going to have a big difference because they would be wiped out in 228 one way or...

  18. AHC: greater Chinese immigration to the Philippines

    :confused: Maybe you misunderstood his post? That looks like basic logic to me. Unless there were no ethnic Chinese there then, disproportionally killing of Filipinos results in other ethnic groups become larger in percentage in the surviving population.

  19. Japanese Philippines

    They did nothing with Taiwan, despite the fierce local resistence and geopolitical significance, was the Philippines more important for anyone but France?

  20. Japanese Philippines

    Maybe Japan could become the benefactor of Katipunan then later backstab them?
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