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Is he not willing to hand over the story to you? Have you two considered that?

SOME people will definitely notice Denton's blinking and news of this will spread, considering he's doing exactly what he did as a POW. Well, at least it would spread in the free world, the CV I imagine can and will censor the news completely.

Why would Denton's blinking go unnoticed? Wasn't his claim to fame was blinking out torture as POW in Vietnam? If he does it again, he'd surely be noticed easily.

Even if people KNEW about the Holocaust, it would be a blip in the radar and compared to the horrors of Generalplan Ost and the extermination of 60-80% of Eastern Europe's population. The genocide of Jews would simply be lumped in with the overall Nazi extermination of everyone they hated. For...

OOC: I partially agree with what you say about PRC mismanagement. The PRC described in the very first post MUST have opened up though, otherwise neither Shanghai nor HK would ever become of any importance in Asia. Though the process of opening up the country may very well be mismanaged, leading...

OOC: Depends on whose in charge. It's true no matter what the KMT wouldn't have seen the excessive deaths under Mao, but one can easily imagine a series of incompetent and corrupt leaders who mismanage the country's economy, bringing less than ideal results for China.

Well if Britain won't take them in, perhaps Taiwan or the US would? For all its faults, OTL China isn't a place where millions of people are starving to death and three generations of family members are sent to camps for minor transgressions, so did the drive to leave would be much lower OTL...

If China became a repressive and brutal Communist hermit state like North Korea, what would happen to HK? Would Britain defend HK at all costs, even with nukes?

ooc:If China is equivalent to OTL North Korea, I have trouble seeing why anyone would hand HK back. Can you seriously imagine the outcry if South Korea decided to cede a chunk of its territory to North Korea?

OOC: If China was a hermit state, then neither Shanghai, nor any other Chinese city, would ever be in the list of 10 of the most developed cities in Asia, and HK would never have been handed over. The China that OP is describing sounds more like would China could look like if the KMT won the...

Ok, so lets say the Soviets had the luck of the Germans during the Battle of France (as in EXTREMELY lucky) and arrives at the pyrenees anyways. How much Dday V2 turn out?

In an ATL where nukes are delayed until around the late 1950s or early 60s due to screwups in the physics community, AND assuming history otherwise proceeds as OTL until 1945, how would a conventional world war iii turn out if the USSR decides to invade Western Europe? It must start around 1951...

If India tries to nuke China, then the Eastern and Southern parts of India that Pakistani missiles can't reach would be annihilated by the Chinese. Though if the war happened at the turn of the century, China would get off pretty lightly since India would not have longrange missiles to strike...

Same. I'm having trouble imagining how mega-North Korea China under continued Maoist rule can rise to challenge the US. Though I think Fallout TL implied that China was always Maoist

The reason I'm wondering about this is that a lighter Civil War might mean less fear of the consequences of seccessionism, and encourage groups later on to either secede or rebel against the US. The South, in particular, would not have been scarred and traumatized by the OTL Civil War, which can...

If the US Civil War ended quickly after a Union Victory at Bull Run, might the US, decades down the road, be at a greater risk of collapse from something like akin to a Great Depression?

Korea would still be a Chinese vassal if China won in 1895. Also, Taiwan would remain Chinese as well. Because of these two factors, Japan literally has to go after China in this TL's WWII, which would be suicidally retarded, even by the standards of insane Japanese militarists (since they...

That makes sense, though perhaps they can succeed in replicating OTL Japan's successes in SE Asia, perhaps along with conquering parts of Southern Russia. Though they'd probably won't be able to go as far out into the Pacific as OTL Japan.

Maybe something TTL's WWI happens around 1900 ITTL instead of 1914, giving China the breathing space to capitalize on its victory ITTL Sino Japanese War.

Basically best case scenario for China within the realms of possibility with a POD of around the late 19th century. And yes I agree theyll focus more on land and less on the Navy. Which makes me wonder how much more powerful such a China be vs OTL Japan. Could they have perhaps the strength to...