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Shoot, I initially just had him living to 1945, but then changed that. I forgot to fully change it though. Should be fixed now, that part plus the inconsistency of him dying in the Socialist Republic of China despite it not existing yet

A prequel/sequel/companion to The Second Sino-Japanese War Liao Zhongkai was a Chinese politician and leader of the Kuomintang. In 1905, he first became involved with political activism, joining the Tongmenghui engaging in opposition to the Qing Dynasty. Later, after the Republic of China was...

Remember Inner Mongolia is significantly majority Han (something like 80% nowadays?) and I'm not sure what the numbers were back in 1989 but it was still likely not just majority Han but significantly so then. So I imagine a post communist China would hang onto Inner Mongolia. Or that it would...

Jingwei was indeed one of the choices I considered, and that is a valid point. Who knows, Sun Yat Sen died in 1925, maybe Duxiu wasn't the first leader after him. and it was some years later that Duxiu managed to get himself on top, with Jingwei being leader in between I just liked the idea of...

Taiwan, one of the territories lost in the Treaty of Shiminoseki, is returned to China. The Japanese could have theoretically just held onto it since even though the Chinese-Soviet alliance was able to push them off the mainland, they couldn't really challenge Japan head to head in terms of...

This is for a sort of loose TL thing I've vaguely outlined where the present day is a lot like OTL in some ways but also different, a lot of butterflies massacred, and more for my own entertainment than realism or detail. But I thought some of the earlier stuff is maybe kinda plausible-ish at...

For a sort of lefty liberal great society type Dem, as opposed to someone more to the left or someone more along centrist lines, I'd think Reagan winning in '76 followed by a Dem win in '80 could do it. the OTL Carter admin saw a lot of issues that weren't entirely within the government's...

The thing with Jackson is, he wasn't just a liberal, he was very leftwing. I can't necessarily 100% rule that out, but I'm not sure how plausible it would be for him to do much better in the north among liberals On the other hand, maybe you could do something like have Ted Kennedy, the sort of...

Well, for the first part there, maybe the people of Britain could have felt differently if the Soviets ended the war having occupied all of mainland Europe, and perhaps with less of the planned cooperation and stuff like the Yalta conference... ...but then that gets into your second point...

Maybe with no WWI, Europe sees a continuing militarization as the international tensions remain a thing. Russia sees growth in industry, but with a lot of that growth being directed towards the military, rather than being directed to improving material conditions for commoners. Maybe the Tsar...

Hm. Well maybe that scenario would at least make the public more willing to elect someone like Churchill who might focus more on foreign policy and presenting a strong opposition to the USSR rather than Labour that might focus more on domestic issues? Maybe it still wouldn't work and be...

I'm not so sure that a different Democrat like Gore would have only won closely. Granted Bush did have advantages, but on the other hand, Dukakis had at the start of the campaign managed to have a polling lead of around 16%, and had lost in no small part due to a number of different campaign...

Maybe you could get Churchill to win if WWII goes differently and ends up with the Soviets on the Rhine or even reaching the English Channel, with something of a British red scare hurting Labour in '45 or whenever the war ends and elections are held?

Well. Wallace getting elected after that still seems a bit like Jeff Davis getting elected in 1872 or something. And how does he get MLK to be his runningmate, especially when he's "still retaining slightly racist attitudes " Also, how do Goldwater and Nixon end up in the LBJ government? I...

Uh oh Is that just what they called it, or does that imply there's another in the future? Wait, and Wallace manages to become President?? After all that? After a secession and genocide? Wow that sounds dreadful

Yeah, Ron Paul seems like a bridge too far. But maybe it could lead to an earlier sort of Trump. Especially if Lieberman governs as a very centrist Dem along the lines of Bill Clinton, which might not be so surprising given his later conflicts within the Democratic Party. So maybe there'd be...

Having a European French Republic and American French Kingdom could maybe be possible, but you'd probably need to go back further, I echo the idea that America at the US at that point wouldn't bother to do much with opposing the British and intervening in Canada Maybe with a bit of a different...

That map looks more plausible for a scenario where the People's Republic of Tawantinsuyu is wanked a bit and got involved in the European War, occupying Spain and some other bits and pieces. The Spanish did have a bit of an empire, but I have a hard time seeing them conquer that much. You'd...

Just got potentially the best Clinton win on normal, the thing says it's higher than 100% and its 10 electoral votes higher than the max of the range on the results thing, though the "hall of fame" doesn't seem to be loading so idk for sure. At any rate, its a margin of 15.4%, Clinton winning...

That would be hard because there's just too much for splitting to really work. In Mississippi, Goldwater beat Johnson by 75%, 87%-12%. That's huge. Even in my scenario, that's still Goldwater at 77% and Johnson at just 22%. Cleave Goldwater's vote cleanly in half and both sides would beat...