Im pretty sure tibet can unify China in .10, although i may be wrong. That would be a cursed timeline though.
Found this future compass on Reddit. The creator seems to be a Long-fan. Temperate seems to meean high chance, radical low chance. I want to write a short scennario for each field, going from temperate bad to radical good.
BAD
1. Neo-imperial nuclear gridlock
Pat-aut German Empire won WK2 against the International, Russia and Japan. Atomic bombs were helpfull in this. London, Moskau ,Tokio and finally Chicago has been nuked. The Germans italianized their former opponents and restored and expanded his colonial empire. They are not above using tactical nuke against rebellious nativey. America is since the 2ACW divided between AUS; PSA and New England.th
2. Savinkov-Totalist partion of Europe
Russia goes natpop. International goes totalist. Reds win ACW and go totalist too. Russian-International alliance crush Germany, Austria and the Entente. Germany is partioned and italianized. Soon a Cold War starts between the two blocs. China, India and Africa are battlefield of that Cold War.
3. Silver Theocracy of the Americas
The AUS wins the ACW. Pelley coups and takes over. Meanwhile the great european and asian powers are stuck in an neverending conflict, which allows Pelley to start a "Holy Crusade" to clean the Americas from the "Enemies of Christ and the white Race".
4. Mosley Savinkov Tianran 1984
Extension of scenario 2. The Natpop/Totalist-Cold War goes hot. Althought nuclear weapons are used, the Russians overrun Western Europe. Only Britan holds with american support. WK3 gives Tianran the chance to unite China and create an eastasian power bloc. All 3 bloc are stuch in an neverending war.
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So, what Chinese unification path do you think would lead to the most powerful China in the long-term and why?
Depends, a lot. Arguably any united China would be a strong power thanks to the population factor alone.So, what Chinese unification path do you think would lead to the most powerful China in the long-term and why?
Right KMT deliberately tries to replicate Chiang's regime from OTL, and while its Nanjing Decade did lead to improvement in general, we all know what it was like.
I take it the ones who aren't hopelessly corrupt are the NCERA and possibly the YCP?most Zhili paths
I haven't played Zhu Peide's path, so I can't really compare them myself, sorryAre both Zhu Peide's and Li Zongren's Right KMT factions equally bad?
I mean, those aren't Zhili as Wu and Cao need to be pushing up daisies to access them. But yeah, non-Soccon Manchu Restoration provides two of the best paths for China IMO, though the YCP based on flavor events has the potential for a good deal of nastiness, especially considering what the group they're fanboying over ended up doing. I wouldn't want to be a Uighur in YCP China, let's just say.I take it the ones who aren't hopelessly corrupt are the NCERA and possibly the YCP?
Actually, playing Governor Chen, his policy is more "legalize warlords who play ball and make token reforms until we're re-united and the imperialist threat is dealt with, then force reforms and de-warlordization over years to a decade or so". It's a very hard path, but if you can get some sympathetic warlords (like Hunan for example) on-side, it's entirely plausible that Chen can force reforms.Depends, a lot. Arguably any united China would be a strong power thanks to the population factor alone.
Fengtian and most Zhili paths are hopelessly corrupt and disregard the general population, same goes for any National Protection Alliance unification.
Right KMT deliberately tries to replicate Chiang's regime from OTL, and while its Nanjing Decade did lead to improvement in general, we all know what it was like.
Left KMT, harboring most of the OTL Communists and presenting itself to be deliberately undemocratic (except for Soong, I guess, but she was one of the leaders of the PRC in OTL so who the heck knows), is bound to replicate the policies of the PRC in some form if they take charge - the Cultural Revolution would definitely be in their ballpark, for example.
Chen Jiongming is too soft in his approach and his Federalist policy is essentially "let's legalize warlords!"
Shangqing is, well, religious fanatics, though I disagree with it being the worst path (the Xiantiandao offshoots, including Yiguandao, were historically fairly mellow)
BAD -but not so badFound this future compass on Reddit. The creator seems to be a Long-fan. Temperate seems to meean high chance, radical low chance. I want to write a short scennario for each field, going from temperate bad to radical good.
BAD
1. Neo-imperial nuclear gridlock
Pat-aut German Empire won WK2 against the International, Russia and Japan. Atomic bombs were helpfull in this. London, Moskau ,Tokio and finally Chicago has been nuked. The Germans italianized their former opponents and restored and expanded his colonial empire. They are not above using tactical nuke against rebellious nativey. America is since the 2ACW divided between AUS; PSA and New England.th
2. Savinkov-Totalist partion of Europe
Russia goes natpop. International goes totalist. Reds win ACW and go totalist too. Russian-International alliance crush Germany, Austria and the Entente. Germany is partioned and italianized. Soon a Cold War starts between the two blocs. China, India and Africa are battlefield of that Cold War.
3. Silver Theocracy of the Americas
The AUS wins the ACW. Pelley coups and takes over. Meanwhile the great european and asian powers are stuck in an neverending conflict, which allows Pelley to start a "Holy Crusade" to clean the Americas from the "Enemies of Christ and the white Race".
4. Mosley Savinkov Tianran 1984
Extension of scenario 2. The Natpop/Totalist-Cold War goes hot. Althought nuclear weapons are used, the Russians overrun Western Europe. Only Britan holds with american support. WK3 gives Tianran the chance to unite China and create an eastasian power bloc. All 3 bloc are stuch in an neverending war.
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Whats the opinion of Huey long?
I mostly think of him as a benign populist tinpot.Depending of the person you are asking, he could be either someone who really see authoritariarism as a way to fix America chronic problems, to a crooked politician who does not wants to deal with the opposition, to also a generic populist tyrant or a populist who really cares for the people.
And the magic is that all these visions are true on one way or another. What brings most fear however is the fact that he is the only good, or lesser evil, alternative for the south, so if he's couped the USA is screwed.
I mostly think of him as a benign populist tinpot.
And possibly a Left KMT under Wang Jingwei Thought, considering their influence from the Sorelians and how they are described in Progress Report 86.The Left-KMT seems much less openly totalitarian and egomaniacal than Mao. Hard to see any of their paths but Dai Li pursuing Maoist insanity.