What navy could a victorious Nationalist China build?

If the Kuomintang won in China, what navy could it afford and operate?

It would probably start by ordering cruisers and build upward gradually as its industrial and operating capacity grew.

Victory would not erase China's financial, industrial, and training constraints. The first credible step would be to order cruisers that can provide presence, training, and a foundation for later expansion. Personnel, dockyards, maintenance systems, and supporting ships would have to grow around those initial purchases. A larger fleet becomes possible only by working upward from that sustainable base.