How did the Chinese Civil war (1946-1950) end?
Technically, it hasn’t really ended. The Communists gained control of mainland China with the KMT being limited to small territories like Taiwan. No treaties have been signed to officially end hostilities. For a long time, Communist China was not recognized as the official Chinese nation. Taiwan with the notation (Republic of China) was considered the “official” nation until Communist allies of China introduced a motion to the UN General Assembly to recognize Communist China as the official nation. Wikipedia has a really good article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War So, to sum up…there are no clones and the Communists essentially won.