If anything, western interests should be pleased to some extent that the Nationalists never held all of China after the Second World War. Chiang's regime may ha

If anything, western interests should be pleased to some extent that the Nationalists never held all of China after the Second World War. Chiang's regime may have been deeply corrupt and authoritarian, not to mention inept in so many ways, but if it had won the Chinese Civil War after 1945 and ousted the communists by 1949 (instead of the other way around), The Unified Chinese state would have adapted market policies (within the framework of an authoritarian government) much more readily and quickly than the Maoists did. Instead of a China that finally got its shit together enough to be a global powerhouse only after decades of catastrophic extreme communist misrule by Mao and his immediate successors, we could have seen a China that pulled off an economic and political success story of power decades earlier. How that would have reflected in the world of today is an interesting speculation on global power politics, especially between the U.S and a China that had developed markets since the 60's instead of in the 1990's being applied to its immense and highly productive population.