Fascist China: Post Waking the Tiger

[dunnerstick69]

So I used to like playing as China, turning it into a fascist nation only to push back against the equally fascist Japanese.
Yet with this new update/dlc it seems like it's strongly discouraged.

The Focus tree only offers the democratic path, which seems historically accurate, and there isn't a way to recruit a Fascist Demagogue.
That being said I've played a game as Germany, with the new dlc, and the Chinese Republic became a Communist nation without Zedong in charge.
With that in mind I figured that China had changed to Communism on its own, so why not Fascism?

All that being said, has anyone done it and how?

[Harvey]

communist china occuring without mao can happen with Zhang Lan, who democratically annexes china. The point of the different chinas is that you select a china based on the ideology you want to play as. For communists, go the PRC, for democrats go ROC, for fascists go Qing, for non-aligned play as a warlord. All chinas can be independant and have cores on all of china, so it's not impossible.