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So I'm planning to write a TL where the PoD is simply FDR picks Richard Russell Jr. over Truman, Wallace, and Byrnes as his VP in 1944 due to all the early benefits of Russell being on the ticket (Deep Southerner (from Georgia), well connected, relatively pro-Labor, pro-New Deal, Conservative...

Une ville français en Chine – Broadcast by Antenne 2, 31 December 1996 Good morning and hello to everyone watching. As France prepares for yet another new year, about 6 and half million of us are preparing not only for a new year, but for a new, non-French future. These 6.5 million Frenchmen...

Just a scenario I cooked in my head. I know this is improbable but for the sake of the scenario, let us discuss the ramifications. Let's just say for some reason after Japan's defeat in WWII, the instrument of surrender only says Japan needs to let Korea and the South Pacific Islands go...

The Cold War of OTL was a dangerous time that saw a lot of proxy wars between the United States, the beacon of Democracy and Capitalism, and the USSR, the Hegemon of Communism. It wouldn't be until the 1980s that the US finally won the Cold War in effect with the USSR and the Warsaw pact...

As we all know Deng Xiaoping laid out the succession of power in China for 2 generations after him- first he was succeeded by Jiang Zemin in early 90s and then Jiang was suceeded by Hu in 2002. While both such transitions are considered to be very smooth, Jiang didn't give up all his posts in...

Due to US backing, the difficulty for a PLA naval landing, and the existence of Nuclear Weapons, the “long game” has been the policy of the CPC. Can the PRC, without military conquest, achieve a political union that affirms CPC dominance and Chinese unity while preserving some local system...

so I've been reading a few threads on what if Mao died and if Stalin lived another decade and so, I've come to ask everyone here this question - What if it was Mao, not Stalin, who died on that day in 1953. Who is his immediate successor? Is there a possible way for China to leap slowly but...

So, the PoD may be that Nixon nominates Thruston Morton as his VP and performs a bit better in Southern States managing to win narrowly defeat JFK. In 1961 he orders a full-blown invasion by US Army after a Tonkin-like provocation instead of what JFK did IRL. Castro is toppled and there is no...

Let's assume in this timeline Chiang Kai-shek dies at some point during the second Sino-Japanese war and someone else takes his place considering how determined he was to have a fully united China. A stalemate occurs sometime after the civil war resumes whether it'd be because of the US and...

What exactly forced the US to abide by the 1-China policy? As the Cold War neared its end, the US was the undisputed world superpower and the PRC was still far from even hoping to challenge US in any way. For decades the US has had to play this game of not angering the PRC while still...

The PoD is that Third Taiwan Strait crisis escalates into a ''border skirmish'' and PRC captures small Islands near Formosa ( which was IRL anticipated by many). Such move would hugely boost DPP support during the 1996 presidential elections. With DPP winnig the elections BEFORE they have...

Let's imagine that Ross Perot manages to become the American president in 1992. During one of his debates, he said that US must focus on aiding fromer Soviet republics and try to turn Russia into ally and ''citadel of democracy''. So, let's say that he ignores the wishes of the former Warsaw...

Shanghai clique ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_clique#2012:_Xi_Jinping_takes_power ) was an informal circle of CCP officials whose rise to prominence was achieved through the patronage of Jiang Zeming. In today's China this group recieved a name of ''Shanghai gang'' due to the...

How could the reformist faction within the Chinese Communist Party (represented by Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang) defeat the conservatives in the dispute that took place in the late eighties and ended with the crackdown on the Tiananmen protests? A turning point that was just as important as the...

The notion of a tri-polar cold war, however much that could be the case vs just being Great Power Politics lacking the ideology of the Cold War is a popular one. The most popular choice seems to be the British Empire or perhaps a stronger postwar France since the bulk of its empire wasn't just...

I have this strange Alternate History TL idea that is been on my mind for some time. The premise is a Russophone East Asian nation and a former Soviet republic situated between China, Russia and North Korea. It comprised of Northeast China and Eastern Inner Mongolia with the population of over...

China has had a long and varied history of unification, division, conquest, etc. But the Qing Collapse has led to one of the longest divisions in chinese history. After the defeat of the Japanese in ww2, the chinese civil war was back on, and neither America or Russia could let the other side...

In a scenario where Mao dies shortly after the proclamation of the People's Republic of China (let's say a sudden stroke or heart attack claims his life), who succeeds him as leader of the nascent People's Republic of China? How does the PRC develop without Mao's rule? What is the foreign policy...

So as we know, the Gang of Four seized power in China in 1977, having purged the pragmatists like Hua Guofeng and reformists like Deng Xiaoping and Chen Yun a year earlier. The Cultural Revolution was still ongoing as of 1985, at the brink of the Second Chinese Civil War, and only officially...

I came across a mention on-line of Mao having apparently contracted septicaemia due to a poorly treated chest pustule that led to an abscess. Now obviously in our timeline he recovered but what if it had instead developed into a fatal case of sepsis? The timing is interesting as it's between the...