Even without the Xi'an Incident, it is by no means certain that the communists would have been eradicated, and even if Chiang Kai-shek's government had been able to wipe them out, it is not certain either that it would have made a better job of ruling the mainland. After all, when was it that Taiwan finally began moving towards democracy?
即使當年沒有西安事變，共產黨也未必會被徹底消滅，就是蔣政府消滅了共產黨也未必就能把大陸搞好，台灣是什麼時候才走上民主進程的呢？