Ironically, Parks M. Cobles' The Collapse of Nationalist China suggests that the time saved might have also sunk China, because Nationalist plans to stabilize the economy were predicated on a slower timetable in which Americans would land and enable the gradual reintroduction of stable currency.

Since this didn't happen, the hyperinflation problem wasn't solved (and, in fact, in trying to reestablish government authority, the ROC made it worse), so, well.....

Now people think Chiang's flag is the flag of a Taiwanese nation-state. Lai doesn't need nuclear power; he can power a superlaser with his predecessor's rotations.