Recent content by AV69

Yeah and the clock has to stay still and things has to keep still in order to make you happy

I have to say it is a romantic interpretation that mistakes material forces for spiritual, CCP takes "the mandate of heaven" because Russians want it to, if the Russians secured a deal with Chinese and Americans then CCP can do nothing about it but cling onto its fiefdom in Manchuria. The rest...

Nations are always man-made constructs. Had the state faced a great enemy that threatened its liberty/survival. It is always convenient to invent some fable and tales to show why its independence is justified, "we are a different nation differ from those lowly bastards in the north, we don't...

Not if it is fabricated in only 60 years' time, counting from 1910s. Chinese nation is an identity invented by Qing propagandists to curb revolutionary agitation, who sought a Han national state. Nothing new but an imitation to Austria-Hungary's Danubian identity or Ottomanism.

Which is not really a problem. In Uyghuristan either the Uyghurs ethnic cleanse the Han colonisers or the Han genocide the Uyghurs, the partition will happen sooner which is definite, the two cannot co-exist. In other places I think you over-emphasise the importance of national...

No such thing is real. In feudal times there was nothing as "one country", most lands you saw on the map were distant remotely ruled by clients and foederates. One state is pretty far from one nation, which is a modern construct. Under Habsburg Germans, Slovens, Italians, Hungarians, Polish...

(A) Something like Carolina, Louisana so it could be Alexandriana, Catherinia (B) Something like Venezuela (Little Venice) so it could be Little Ryazan, Little Novgorod, Little Vladimir, you could even consider giving it some Asiatic touch (C) Russian West Indies The cities could be Tsargrad...

Qing the Manchus had a perspective that Inner Asia was predominantly important, herself was intertwined with Mongols and Tibetans while discouraged civillians from moving across the seas. There had been a ban coherent with Japan's that was enforced from time to time in sea trade.

Taiping loosely resembles Zomia, its leaders speak Hakka which is a mountainous language mutually intelligible with Cantonese and Hokkienese in many cases.

Further I would argue it was the interest of European powers to prevent the Far East from fragmentation, as it is always better to negotiate with fewer clients than too many, in the case of the Qing, Mughals and Ottomans the British always maintain the sole imperial authority as her client as...

I would suggest Hokkien colonisation of Taiwan was a long, painful but successful example. At the time of colonisation of Taiwan, Hokkien suffered from a lack of arable farmland and chronic overpopulation. I consider this is the most major reason why this progressed so steadily despite rampant...

European mercenaries played a huge part in the Siam & Annam court factions and in wars both home and foreign, which I'd argue resembles the role of the Turks, Turkish mercenaries, and Turk's eventual dominance and lordship over Persia and the Middle East. As for the religion factor, Catholicism...

And Chinese threats as well, who was a nominal imperial seignor over Viets and Chams. Annam in historical records of Mings, were recorded to possess a superior gunpower knowledge advantage by as early as early-15th century, it is arguably a product of Indo-Pacific trade routes which conversed...

For Japan to conquer Luzon, the Japanese government had to be highly centralised in order to invest in such a fruitless venture, the vassals in Luzon (other than the gold mines) would return so little tribute while require so much force to reside. It must be really, really unpopular.

Vietnamese, Thais and even Qing China and Japan Tenno after the Sino-Japanese War were effective European Clients, it is nearly impossible to stop colonialism when imperialism flourished as in the case of Rome expanding into Mediterranean and Asia. (Local princes submitted to become Roman...