Re: Somewhat Anachronistic Country Splits
Considering that China occupied northern Vietnam
for a brief period, I don't see it as
that implausible. ITTL, maybe Chiang established a North Vietnamese puppet state with the help of the
VNQDD? Apparently, the VNQDD was strongest in the north, especially in Hanoi.
It's weird how these things work, isn't it?
Considering that the VNQDD is openly Socialist, part of me doubts that the China of TTL would have worked with them, the VNQDD probably joined up with the Viet Minh or was absorbed into it; or at least that is what I would personally figure myself.
The government of TTL's "North Vietnam" (official name "State of Vietnam") is in actuality lead by the one and only Ngo Dinh Diem, the OTL President of South Vietnam, and TTL "Leader" and overall military commander of the openly fascist Vietnamese Liberation Front; and President of the State of Vietnam.
Re: Darkness is Coming Jon Snow
Great last few updates
. Well i'm hoping China will be liberated as well as Europe. (Communism over fascism, democracy over communism). This is getting dark.
Thanks, glad that you enjoyed my and Binky's work.
However, if the hint about the modern state of Chinese-American relations suggests anything; then I would "guess" that China isn't going to get liberated anytime soon.
Re: Neutrality, a messy game; even for a nation of hundreds of millions of people.
How's India doing? Are they in the Non-Aligned Movement? Will the US try to form a treaty of friendship/trade agreement/military alliance with the Indians ITTL? Will a Sino-Indian War occur as scheduled ITTL?
There isn't exactly a so called "Non-Aligned Movement" ITTL, at least in any form that resembles OTL, but India is in fact one of the major neutral nations of the world; and a growing economic and military power as well.
Of course, while India is indeed
officially neutral, they
- unlike our own world, lean geopolitically towards the American/Western side of the Cold War, and those ties are likely only going to grow deeper and more extensive as the years pass by, with the now openly hostile China threatening both; and a Pakistan that is starting to get pretty cozy in Berlin's bed also posing a political and military threat to both Indian and Western interests.
Re: Chiang Kai-Shek is so not going to be Time's Man of the Year in 1959
I wonder what Henry Luce of Time-Life would think of his old buddy Chiang Kai-shek now considering he was one American who really thought the world of him and called his China "Free China"?
I imagine that Luce is not too particularly pleased with the turn of events that have taken place in Asia.
Re: Where's that Frenchman?!
What of the Béarn? The Free France aircraft carrier. Félix Éboué? Georges Catroux? Jean Decoux?
The Bearn was in all likelihood probably decommissioned by the Vichy French government sometime in the late 1940's, and subsequently replaced by a newer model Aircraft Carrier.
General Catroux, as per OTL, was dismissed from his post as Governor of (then) French Indochina by the Vichy government, and then subsequently defected to De Gaulle's Free France, where he still serves as De Gaulle's Secretary of War in the Free French government; based in the city of Algiers.
General Éboué is De Gaulle's Vice President in the Free French government, having been put on the ticket during the 1955 Presidential Elections; as a compromise choice to try and unite Frenchman and African together.
Admiral Decoux on the other hand, was captured in Saigon by a joint Franco-British task force during the Indochinese Campaign of World War II in 1944, and subsequently transported to Algiers, where he was tried and convicted for treason; and executed in late 1945.
Re: "The Faroe Question"
Another good update. Also, what is the current status of the faroe islands. are they a part of the UK proper now, with a MP, or as they governed as territory. Also, what is Goering status right now as he had 'retired' from public life in a earlier update.
The Faroe Islands were in a "de jure" sense still apart of the exiled Kingdom of Denmark from 1944-1955, but they were in a de facto sense apart of the United Kingdom in all ways but actual name, a situation which was made de jure with the formal annexation of the islands by the British government in 1956; and were then subsequently reorganized as a overseas province with a MP in Parliament; through there is a Faroe autonomy movement that is gaining steam.
As for Goring, after Speer kicked him out of power, he and his family were subsequently forced into political exile in Crimea; where Goring would die in late 1959.
Re: Size does Matter
Actually, Canada is about 3,855,000 square miles in TTL, while the US is about 4,682,100 square miles, and the USSR is about 6,642,000 square miles.* I don't care to speculate on Germany, but I think they are the fifth largest with China being fourth.
*if you factor out warlord controled areas it gets smaller.
Oh yes, I can't believe I almost forgot that that the US would in actuality be larger in overall territorial size ITTL; thanks to the annexation of Greenland and Iceland. D'oh.
Overall however, I would have to say that your numbers (however guess-y they are) and order of largest nations by territorial size would probably be correct in all honesty.