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I do think Singapore is the case. Its “authoritarian“ element is way overblown in the west. By and large it’s a democracy with stability-oriented voters like Japan.

Bang Karno might have been a failed dictator, but certainly not a bloodthirsty one. He still enjoyed lot’s of prestige after this many decades In his own country. Meanwhile Pak Harto took a little more lives than what’s necessary to maintain order. If the killing spree was an understandable...

Soekarno told Nehru that his Confrontation against Malaysia was for the sake of countering British imperial scheme. Nehru responded that imperialism was basically a non-issue, and the independent countries should be responsible for their own actions.

I'd choose 842 BC, one year prior to the start of the Gonghe Regency, as year 0 of the Chinese solar calendar, making this year AG 2864. When China encountered the western Christian linear year counting system, two starting date for a Chinese calendar had been proposed, the Yellow Emperor...

I'd say, the recent Sino-American Split between 2012 and 2019 was a closest thing you get to the Sino-Soviet Split. Both events witnessed close economic ties severred due to mutual suspicions of each others' intentions. China, before its fall from favour, was an important link in the US world...

Newfoundland could have survived. I‘d say the chances of her survival was greater than its OTL demise. Sarawak and Sabah didn’t need to join Malaysia. The Soviet puppet states in Iran: Azerbaijan and Kurdistan.

Would Egypt accept being dominated by some other regional culture in a United Arabia? Say Iraq?

Which OTL states such a country could include? Iraq+Gulf States? Iraq, Syria and Egypt? The entire Ottoman Arabia + Egypt? The entire Arabian Peninsular + Egypt and Libya? The entire arab world?

Khanate of Oros…

The reason for China’s inclination towards reverse engineering was the Soviet technical aids. After importing the Soviet industrial capacity, but without matching R&D abilities, China could copy everything without the relavant understanding. In the rest of the world, countries tend to do...

Most Plausible History of Taured: When the Moors invaded Spain, they brought with them a bunch of Tuaregs. After a failed expedition into France, the retreating Moorish army left behind some wounded and sick Tuaregs in the mountains, who dugged in to defend themselves, somewhere between France...

There might still be German far right voluteers in Spain, including a non-governing NADAP.

Afghanistan was a country extremely dependent on foreign aid. China post-Mao simply didn’t feel like giving out aid, and she objectively couldn’t afford to.

If independence could anger the French, how about more autonomy? Or even a Rif Republic as a part of a Spanish Commonwealth.

Was there any plan for active decolonization among the French and Spanish left?