>>657323The KMT were basically puppets of western imperialist powers, where the leadership of the KMT would have got rich by allowing the entire country to be exploited by the western capitalists for cheap labor and resources (something basically already happening under the Qing dynasty).
Essentially China would have become basically what Africa is today, rich leaders who are lapdogs for western capitalists, extracting cheap labor and resources out of the country.
Instead China became the place where cost-of-living is extremely cheap while still being very advanced and the #1 generator of real-world value, you can go to a random corner store in China and get an Nvidia GPU re-soldered onto a different PCB with more VRAM, try doing that ANYWHERE in the USA.