Recent content by drasonz

interesting might be ideas for vietnam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C6%B0%E1%BB%9Dng_%C4%90%E1%BB%83 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caodaism

Just a question will the tongzhi emperor not die just like in otl and have a actual heir? Reasons will be western medicine with vaccination might be available to him?

Even japan had to dealt with their own rebellion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satsuma_Rebellion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saigō_Takamori Yes the one that inspired the last samurai movie

The 1st western translation of sun tzu's art of war was in french published in 1772 (re-published in 1782) by the French JesuitJean Joseph Marie Amiot. There was that legend that napoleon had read that book.

A constitutional monarchy incoming? and will the sepoy mutiny still happen? Will china/qing exploit it? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Rebellion_of_1857

will LOL at that if they used that for encryption like the code talker

i wonder if confucianism can be reformed with the emperors as the head of the religion? like the church of england for the british? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucian_church

Interesting, Franklin D Roosevelt's grandfather Warren Delano was a opium smuggler in otl. https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/28/opinion/the-opium-war-s-secret-history.html And also john kerry's ancestor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Blackwell_Forbes

Korea maybe not due to its Tributary status and yes Japan might not be so lucky this timeline.

Successful Qing More Lanfang republics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanfang_Republic

Also china will have to expand more get more resources like imperial japan when it also modernized in otl.

Will be interesting, more chinese republics and kingdoms like the lanfang? China might not expand much but if the chinese people do their own colonizing? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanfang_Republic

The ming/qing pulled a meiji allies with imperial japan attack russia along with central powers in ww1? Russia collapes as usual and have a worse brest-litovsk treaty due to additional chinese and japanese claims. Then the civil war between the reds and the whites rages until a stalemate and a...

What if qianlong accepted sulu annexation? https://www.google.com/amp/s/suluonlinelibrary.wordpress.com/2014/04/09/sulu-history-and-the-chinese/amp/ What about the lanfang republic?

Once reformed, japan might think twice about attacking china and might form the alternate east asia co-prosperity sphere as a treaty/alliance between them.