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  1. Tibet and Xinjiang independence movements under Nationalist China

    If the KMT won the Chinese Civil War and most likely end up taking control of Xinjiang and TIbet, what kind, if any, independence movements would there be? KMT rule most likely would be much more mild than Mao's, and probably at the level of current day PRC's at worst. Without such harsh...
  2. Did the PRC and the ROC ever had a chance to reunify?

    With a POD after the formation of the PRC on October 1st 1949, how much of a chance did the two sides have for reunification and what POD would be most likely for such an event to occur. Btw, there was this post that I found...
  3. China wins the 1st Sino-Japanese War in 1895

    You mean their ground forces? The Bannermen that defended Manchuria during the Boxer Rebellion were obliterated in the face of Russian advances. Does the Qing have ground forces that could possibly be a match against the Russians?
  4. WI: North Korea did the Boston Marathon bombings

    As much as I hate to say it, Lu's death alone would likely NOT trigger any response for the PRC besides harsh words. I recall an instance in the past few years when North Korean border guards on the NK/PRC border killed a few Chinese on the Chinese side of the border. And China is supplying...
  5. What were the chances of the Cuban Missile Crisis going hot?

    As per the title. If we replay the Cuban Missile Crisis from the day it started through a hundred parallel universes, how many of them would end up in nuclear armageddon?
  6. Gavrilo Princip survives WWI

    Princip died in Austrian prison in 1918 shortly before WWI ended. What would be the effects had he survived the war? How would he be treated by Yugoslavia?
  7. WI: US Invasion failures?

    Eagle Claw wasn't won b y the Iranians though. Weather conditions brought it down.
  8. What countries/regions would be least affected by a nuclear war in the 1980s?

    NZ and Australia would be targeted by the Soviets since they're American allies, though most of Australia wouldn't be affected since its sparsely populated desert.
  9. What countries/regions would be least affected by a nuclear war in the 1980s?

    I remember reading a thread here earlier saying that by the 1980s, even neutral nations are on the target list for both US and Soviet nuclear missiles, because neither superpower want any potential aid to the enemy left after the war. That said, if a nuclear war happened in say, 1983, what...
  10. Would the world actually be worse off with Hitler dead?

    So if we try to rewrite and replay history and make sure Hitler is gone before he is even remotely significant, whose to say an insignificant person who died OTL, during WWI most likely, survives due to random luck and becomes the next Hitler? It only takes one person.
  11. How ASB is a US invasion of Pakistan post 9/11?

    Based off an ASB thread where ASBs brainwash Americans into supporting an invasion of Pakistan in the early 2000s. However, someone there claimed that it's not ASB if say, a coup took place where Musharaf gets replaced by radical anti-American leaders. What are the chances of the US actual going...
  12. AHC: Hong Kong gets "Crimea-ed" by the British

    A non-nuclear China MIGHT make this remotely plausible, but I'm not sure if China would refrain from developing nukes, though perhaps a US strike on Chinese nuclear facilities might do the trick in the 1960s (that was considered btw). But, then there is a whole other set of butterflies here...
  13. When was the latest Imperial China could defeat Western powers?

    Ming and later Qing China have fought victorious engagements against the Portuguese and Dutch off their southern coast and against the Russians in the North during the 16th and 17th century. When was the latest that China could win in a war in those areas against foreign powers, before the...
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