That's...uh...fairly unlikely and bordering on ASB. The Native Alaskan communities were totally decimated by the mid-1920s. Native communities had something like the second or third highest death rates from Spanish Flu per capita in the world. Many tribal villages lacked running water...
Not much. The US Army and Navy maintained an outpost at Russian Mission (St. Michael), and the USN had just finished setting up naval dockage facilities in Dutch Harbor. The USCG had pretty extensive basing and dockage throughout the territory to support the Alaska fishing and canning industry...
As said above, Outer Mongolia, Tibet, and Turkestan were considered "Banner/Tributary Kingdoms" under the old Ming and Qing systems; they sent tribute and armed soldiers to the imperial government in Beijing in exchange for the continued existence of their monarchies. Outer Mongolia was a bone...
IMO one of the primary reasons would be maintaining it as a buffer with India. Tibet was never actually part of China; it was a banner kingdom during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It held the same status under the old imperial system that Mongolia did. They were nominally independent kingdoms...
That entirely depends on what sort of potential modernization you're discussing; the GMD-lead Nanjing Decade had similar growth rates to post-1979 Dengist China and was showing significant economic growth potential before the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Seeing Mao killed off during...
That entirely depends on the global economic outlook, the regime's determination to pursue economic growth strategies, and their willingness to allow for foreign investments. The Guomindang (GMD/KMT) demonstrated similar growth rates to the post-1979 CPC during the Nanjing Decade, with...
Just keep in mind: South Korea's economic miracle didn't take place quite yet. The economic reforms were just taking hold in the country, and the military junta was still in control after the 1980 coup d'etat by General Chun Doo-Hwan. Seoul, Busan, and Incheon weren't big modern cities at that...
Just a quick response while I see it and am actually on this site for a change:
South Korea gets hammered like Heilongjiang and Jilin Provinces in the Chinese Northeast, but nastier. The DPRK had already embedded enough heavy artillery on retracting firing mechanisms in the hillsides above the...
A hearty hello to all readers!
I hope you are all doing well in the midst of COVID. It's been quite a few months since I managed to get pen to paper (work stress, etc.), but I've started working on another postwar informational update. Not sure if everyone is interested or not given the...