If the same situation surrounding Xinjiang was to occur under a theoretical ROC government, I don’t think anyone on Reddit would give a shit tbh
they’d be just as cringe with the ROC
China-criticism has nothing to do with policy, and everything to do with race. If ROC owned all of China, Mongolia, Siberia, etc then reddit wiggers would be screeching even harder and supporting whatever hypothetical opposition the ROC would have.
They currently support the ROC/KMT because it’s the powerless one. Back in the 80s these same wiggers were screeching about Japan because they were the rising ones back then
Some of China’s issues are just related to the country itself and that anyone who ruled China, even if they were complete American puppets, would have beef with their neighbors over the South China Sea, have border issues with India and separatism in Xinjiang. If the KMT had held the mainland and the CPC was stuck on Taiwan the KMT would have already invaded Taiwan by now, with western support. The KMT and CPC worked on the common project of unifying China for six years. There might be an alternative history where the united front doesn’t fall apart (with the KMT remaining the stronger and larger of the two) and a Republic of China becomes just as prominent and independent (and at odds with the US) as it is now. But it’s possibly more likely that the ROC would have become a comprador state like a lot of other US puppets. But it would be a comprador state with a separatism problem in Xinjiang.
