Can I ask something? Can we get a list of what happened all around the world? I really love reading this story but I, sometimes, have things that doesn't interest me *cough* France and English Army *cough* and I know they will be important.
So, can you please give us a small summary of this wildly different world?
Certainly. Roughly in chronological order:
China has a new dynasty after the Boxer revolt turned into an actual war.
France staged an intervention to southern China, and Japan kept her presence in the Boxer War rather minimal.
Russia and Japan found enough common ground to avoid a war in the Far East.
President McKinley is alive.
Russian Empire sees no need to do any internal major reforms, but is suffering from terrorism. Lenin is dead, tuberculosis got the better of him.
The Anglo-Japanese alliance has been signed, and later on extended to cover the North-Eastern Frontier if need be.
British politics are a tad different, with a new Liberal cabinet of Earl Spencer being opposed by protectionists led by Joseph Chamberlain.
German foreign policy under Chancellor von Eulenburg has been cautious, but Britain is still not amused by the German attics. Some cooperation, like the Baghdad Railway, have been achieved.
France and Britain are trying to solve their colonial disputes, but mutual suspicion and hostility linger.
Abdülhamid II has been assassinated, and the constitutionalist officers of
Haliskar Zabitan are in charge instead of CUP.
The Powers have imposed a vast list of demands to the Ottomans during the turmoil after the assassination, including Armenian vilayets and Jewish settlements in Palestine.
Norwegian secession from the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway was followed by failed negotiations and a short war, that threatened to escalate to a wider European conflict until an armistice was hastily imposed by a joint naval intervention of the Powers.
The Eulenburg Affair culminated to abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
The following shake-up of German political life led to army prominence at the expense of the navy.
All Major Powers are engaged in a mutual arms race, and are also reforming their armies and navies.