That's quite simple. Macao has a very bad reputation, is much smaller and has simply not the infrastructure Hong Kong has. Replacing Hong Kong with Macao would not be sensible and profitable. An BTW the PRC was not interesting in Macao in OTL, despite the fact that the people of Macao wanted to...
There is a much easier way to achieve this: let the UK ally themselves with Germany instead of France when the UK ended the Splendid Isolation and was looking for allies. (BTW in OTL Germany was their first choice but was not interested so they allied themselves with the one country which was...
I don't think so.
The problem is that WW1 could have been avoided but every one wanted that war. Read The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark in which he explains that every nation involved was guilty of starting the war. World War 1 was the logical conclusion of...
A very mysterious TL about a secret message appearing nearly everywhere. It is written on walls. It is heard on TV and radio. But nobody knows, what it means and why it is always backwards. And who is the mysterious Paul who is dead and is missed by some one? No one knows but many try to find...
With the events that led to the Second Crusade never happening the crusader states in the Levante managed to survive. Over the course of the next three centuries the County of Tripolis manages to aquire all other crusader states, beginning with the Principality of Antiocheia in 1206 and...
Some sort of Mirroruniverse in which totalitarian dictatorships are common. Every single nation on earth is a totalitarian dictaorship. Democracy is considered being a dangerous social experiment which is always doomed to fail, because no real democracy was ever established. But then sudden...
(I know that the OP did probably want a Nazi-themed reply...)
World War I is started with French and Russian surprise attacks in which they took most western states of the German Empire and the eastern half of Prussia up to the Oder. But then Germany after allying themselves with both Great...
A tale from the Weird West. The murder of a pony express courier led to the uncovering of a conspiracy against one of the most important covens of the United States of America. So President Lee sends his best agents. At first sight the conspirators seem to be agents of the Confederate States of...