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  1. Afghanistan becomes Switzerland of Asia

    To build a modern state, Afghanistan requires universal and modern educational system plus economic reform. If the tribe leaders are benefit from these two reforms, they will embrace whatever the reform the king will implement.

  2. Eastern Oriented Russia

    It had to move its capital east ward, somewhere around Ural mountain. This Russia would slowly lose touch with western countries and become a backwater of Europe. We would see a stronger Poland or raising of another eastern European country. This state would take over as a dominate force in...

  3. PRC: Was the power transition from Jiang Zeming to Hu Jintao inevitable?

    It would not make any significant changes since Deng was not conscious in the later days of his life. In additional, Jiang didn't lost much of his power during Hu's era, since Hu was a figurehead from beginning to the end. If Jiang had cracked down his opponents like Xi has done, he would stay...

  4. How might the Japanese Empire be different with these early 20th century borders?

    Alternative scenario would be Spain tried to sell the Philippine to Russia. That would alarm British and Dutch. Both would loan hundreds of million with low interest rate to Japan to purchase Philippine.

  5. How might the Japanese Empire be different with these early 20th century borders?

    Key obstacle was how would Japan obtain Philippines? For example: From 1931 to early 1940, American and Western countries were neutral during the second Sino-Japanese war. However, everything changed, when Japan occupied Indo-China, aka Vietnam, in summer of 1940. American demanded Japan to...

  6. How might the Japanese Empire be different with these early 20th century borders?

    In my opinion, Japanese mentality was a quick win and easy victory. Their mindset was not focusing on long term development. Otherwise, they should stop their expansion policies after the Mukden incident and focus on economic development and social integration. Another reason for targeting...

  7. How might the Japanese Empire be different with these early 20th century borders?

    Japan needed resources to expand its industries. The proposed territories were poorly developed and required a lot of capital investment. In additional to that, attacking Philippines might upset many European Countries, especially USA and Great Britain. On other hand, China was an easier...

  8. Altering the Qing dynasty so the Chinese Civil War would be less of a bloody slog?

    After the death of Empress Cixi in 1908, there were demands to implement constitutional monarch and parliamentary election. This was large driven by economic situations in China. China had to pay huge debt payments to foreign governments. The revenue for the central government had not kept up...

  9. What if the Roman Republic endured?

    How did that happen? What if there was some kind of senate reform?

  10. Romanization in Colonial SE Asia

    If that was the case, no one would be able to read the old history book. There would be a disconnection between modern SE Asia and old SE Asia.

  11. No ARW: India

    In your timeline, what would happen to muslim in west if the west would be dominated by Sikhs

  12. Xinjiang remains independent after the Chinese Civil War

    In your opinion, was there anyway for China to keep outer Mongolia?

  13. What if the An Lushan Rebellion never happened?

    The problem started with shrinking of imperial revenue. Approximately 40% of tax payers were exempted from variety of taxes. The revenue could not keep up with costly military expansions. The central government allowed located military governors to collect its own taxes. As result of this...

  14. WI: A Chinese democracy

    Democracy would be possible in late 70s if someone was popular and powerful enough to challenge and prevent Deng from taking over the supreme power. Party had to find a balance between two factions. An internal democratic system would be developed within the party. It would not be a true...

  15. Cantonese South China

    Based on my knowledge, mandarin didn't become a dominant force until 1980s. That was due to urbanization and commercialization. Public needs a common dialect to communicate. In your scenario, a promotion of urbanization and commercialization in south would achieve your goals. Public has to...

  16. What would it have taken for a successful liberalized democratic Russa?

    Constitution is the foundation of a civilized society. If you look at countries, such as Russia and Turkey, politicians are able to change the constitution as they wish. Turkey did hold a referendum, the threshold was very low. In certain country, politician can't change the constitution...

  17. What would it have taken for a successful liberalized democratic Russa?

    Russia Federation is a worst version of Weimar Republic. IMO, Weimar Republic was a liberal democratic republic with some serious flaws in its constitution. The constitution allowed politicians to restore or create a dictatorship as they wished. I suspect Russia Federation has a fake democracy...

  18. Crown Prince Rupprecht for President in 1932

    Based on my reading from Wikipedia, it would be difficult for him to run for president in 1932 due to his desire to restore monarch. He had to change his political view that head of state should be elected and not inherited.

  19. AHC: Haiti is a First-world country

    Perhaps implementing universal education for all citizens? I think Haiti's economic situation is primarily due to centuries of poor management and lack of education.

  20. WI: Leningrad and Moscow fall in 1941

    I remember reading an American military study on operation Barbarossa. It mentioned something about When Paulus drafted the invasion plan, he had predicted that German would have difficulties capturing and holding on to Moscow due to logistic issue. The maximum logistic capacity that was...
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