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  1. Music, Hippies, and Pop Culture of an alternate KMT-ruled China during the 1960s

    In my revised alt-timeline scenario, KMT-ruled China of the 1960s is a Western ally that possesses a nuclear arsenal. As of 1967, it has a large GDP of 500 billion USD and a population of 700 million. Its territory spans OTL China, Taiwan, the Diaoyu Islands, and Western Xikang Province...
  2. Service Rifle Evolution of a KMT-ruled China (PODs: Mao and Zhou were killed in 1935, National Revolutionary Army captured Manchuria in late 1946)

    1) Hanyang Type 88 rifle Produced from 1888 to 1944 In front-line service from 1888 to 1949 In service as a ceremonial rifle 2) Chiang Kai Shek rifle / Type 24 rifle Produced from 1935 to 1955 In front-line service from 1935 to 1959 In service as a ceremonial rifle 3) FN-49 rifle / Type 39...
  3. Alt Timeline: China the Superpower (Chinese Armor)

    In this timeline, the ROC won the Chinese Civil War, and then annexed back East Turkestan. This version of the ROC controls all of Mainland China (excluding Macau that is to be returned in 1980 and HK that is to be returned in 1997), Taiwan, and the Diaoyu Islands except for Western and Central...
  4. Alternate History Timeline: China the Superpower (The Drug Wars of Southeast Asia)

    Hi! I am currently writing an alternate history timeline in which the KMT defeated the Communists and re-united China (including Taiwan and the Diaoyu Islands but not Mongolia and Tuva). In this timeline, Tibet is a Chinese protectorate, as China chose to vassalize Tibet instead of annexing it...
  5. Alternate History Timeline: China the Superpower (Chinese Light Machine Guns)

    Hi! I am currently writing an alternate history timeline in which the KMT defeated the Communists and re-united China (excluding Mongolia and Tuva). Note that in this timeline, Tibet is a Chinese protectorate because China chose to vassalize Tibet instead of annexing it. In this timeline, the...
  6. Alternate History Timeline: China the Superpower (The Chinese Car Industry as of 1978)

    Hi! I am currently writing an alternate history timeline in which the KMT defeated the Communists and re-united China (excluding Mongolia and Tuva). In this timeline, Tibet is a Chinese protectorate, as China chose to vassalize Tibet instead of annexing it. In this timeline, the Chinese car...
  7. Alternate History Timeline: China the Superpower (Chinese Weaponry)

    Top-of-the-line Chinese weaponry as of 1978: Service Rifle: Type 59 Rifle (License produced Colt M16A1) The Type 59 is a variant of the M16A1 rifle that was adopted by the R.O.C. Armed Forces in January 1970. Here are the specifications for the Type 59: Select-Fire License-produced variant of...
  8. Alternate History Timeline: China the Superpower

    Hi. I am currently writing a story set in an alternate timeline in which China remains under KMT rule. These are my notes about this alternate timeline. Please review my notes, analyze them, and correct anything if I wrote something wrong or inaccurate. Sorry if the notes are a bit too...
  9. AHC: “One Country, Two Systems” for Taiwan

    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...
  10. Cantonese South China

    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...
  11. US adopted a 2-China policy

    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...
  12. Gillan1220

    Why did the United States have a love-hate relationship with the KMT and how could it have been repaired to prevent the rise of the PRC?

    What is says on the tin. What caused this rift between Truman and Chiang? How could the U.S. and the KMT reset relations so that the ROC would not lose control of the mainland?
  13. Doctoryzer

    1911: Was it worth it?

    In 1911, we created a uprising that struck the valleys of our home. By 1912 we set up our provisional government that quickly collapsed to a wicked monarchist set to restore a monarchy in our homelands. Revolutionaries fled and by 1915, we were tired. We armed up against the monarchist and began...
  14. Whiteshore

    AHC: China divided in two after WW2

    With a POD after August 15, 1945, create a scenario where mainland China is divided in two with a Republic of (South) China and a People's Republic of (North) China. Bonus points if you avoid turning North China into a larger version of North Korea in the process.
  15. Could the ROC have ever retaken the mainland?

    With a POD after the end of the Chinese Civil War, would the ROC have ever been able to retake at least some of the mainland and hold it? OTL the ROC developed plans to retake the mainland, but the US actively opposed any such plans. Even during the Korean War and the Taiwan Straits crises of...
  16. KuboCaskett

    AHC: Earlier US-PRC positive relations before the 70's?

    While reading up stuff about the situation in mainland China in 1945 and in 1950, they revealed that the Chinese communists had numerous chances for a stable relationship with the US even as the Cold War was looming yet that window of opportunity was shrinking since the rejection of their offer...
  17. Cold War divided China: Who gets to keep the UN seat?

    At the end of WW2, the Republic of China, alongside the US, the Soviet Union, Great Britain and France were made members of the UN Security Council. The Republic of China War then replaced by its predecessor, the People's Republic of China. But, had the Chinese Civil War ended in a stalemate...
  18. The Professor

    Divided China query

    So, assuming Non expansionist Koreo-Japanese empire, instead of OTL Japanese Empire, as western Ally Stronger Nationalist China in the Axis Butterfly nets as needed outside the East How would China be divided if it lost WW2? And effects on the ensuing Cold War etc.
  19. Whiteshore

    DBWI: Have Taiwan not be a rogue state

    As the "Republic of China" in Taiwan threatens the People's Republic of China with "atomic destruction" once again and the international community talks about Taiwan but does little but impose sanctions and the fight the occasional skirmish with the Taiwanese navy, I wonder what POD would be...
  20. Gukpard

    What if the chinese empire survived?

    The Chinese Empire I'm talking about is the Yuan Shikai one I'm not a expert on chinese history, but what I found on wikipedia about the empire says that "the Hongxian Emperor was opposed by not only the revolutionaries, but far more importantly by his subordinate military commanders, who...
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