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This is a question designed to help me write my timeline (it is called When the Tlingit Embraced the Seas, and you can read it if you want to). What I want to know is this: If Native Americans from the Pacific Northwest had better seafaring technology and more advanced technology in general...

French Indochina, initially a protectorate in southern Cambodia, expanded northwards over time. But here I contemplate a scenario wherein France retains solely over a more expansive Cochinchina region Cochinchina was the most "developed" among the territories, and was de facto and de jure...

So I found out about this guy after a cursory look at Wikipedia and the Filipino politics thread in Chat, and he's definitely a character who deserves more attention in this site. Arsenio Lacson was mayor of Manila from 1952 until his death, and during this time he cultivated the image of a...

The Red Scare in East Asia: Japan (1945–1950) - A glimpse into what East Asia could have looked like if Japan was divided, instead of Korea. “In the later half of the Second World War, the United States had developed the world’s first nuclear weapon, the Atom Bomb. While Germany had been...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_Chinese_National_Assembly_election Shortly after the Xinhai Revolution, mainland China had what was probably the most democratic election in its history, with multiple parties taking part in it, even if only a very small percentage of the population was...

On 1570 the Spanish would be opposed by the Selurong Sultanate, despite the fact that Lakandula and Sulayman are welcoming to the Spanish, the Muslims in Luzon or Selurong led by the Selurong Sultanate[1] would oppose the Spanish forcing them to settle just in Manila and Tondo which was given by...

What would have happened if the conquering Mongol leader Genghis Khan (his name was Temujin) had lived and established his vast empire a hundred years earlier? What then could have been the fate of the Crusades and of Islam? Timojin of our timeline was born in 1060. In 1098 he receives the title...

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The first president of South Korea, Syngman Rhee was a ruthless and corrupt far-right dictator whose regime was responsible for the imprisonment and death of tens, if not hundreds of thousands of political dissidents. He was also a very old man, being 84 years old by the time he was finally...

What if NATO didn't just include the European Nations but Pacific, African and Asian countries (Japan, Australia and New Zealand) to form TOTO (Trans Oceanic Treaty Organization) or PATO (Pacific Atlantic Treaty Organization) to fight against the USSR? What would have to happen to and how...

So I heard it was a bit of cliche for the CSA to join the Allies and for the US to join the Central Powers in WW1 but one of things I keep hearing is "the world would be radical different". How exactly does the Confederacy effect the political of the globe in not just North America and the...

As we know, the Microstate us a nation with a that is very small. In some cases, they are City-States, independent Cities, or Island Nation, confined to their size due to geography. Some examples include Monaco, Vatican City, Liechtenstein, and San Marino, and the example of Island nations are...

this is East Asia in my alt cold war scenario some context: the south won the korean war the Chinese civil war ended in stalemate. Chiang survived through a combination of luck, major american investment and sheer grit. both sides came very close during the civil war to destroying the other...

"They say the sun never sets on the British Empire. They will soon learn a lesson that Icarus knows all too well." -Tomoyuki Yamashita Buildup Following their successes in China, the IJA decided to temporarily rest and upsize their military rather than continue a rapid expansion. Military...

Painting of Sukarno by Basuki Abdullah, 1964 • • • Nationalism and Decay: Inside Sukarno's Indonesia "I remembered what had been told to me months ago in Jakarta, "Sukarno is the great Dalang, and we are all characters in his Wayang, his shadow play. We have no existence beyond that which he...

The Story of Indonesia: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Independence "Look at a map of the world. Look at the great mass of islands that trails from the underbelly of mainland Southeast Asia. Squint, and you won’t be able to see the red lines marking the political boundaries. This is the...

Hi again. So, I was thinking about a "plausible" scenario of a German victory in the Second World War. So one of the premises is that Churchill dies and the order for the BEF to withdraw comes a week or so later than OTL, which means that the Germans are able to cut off and capture the majority...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_democracy_period_in_Indonesia From 1950 until the imposition of "guided democracy" in 1959, Indonesia was a parliamentary democracy marred by uprisings, coups and prime ministers with extremely short tenures, the longest of which lasted just two years. Was...

Please keep the objectifying jokes to a minimum One of the great medical mysteries of history is that, while yellow fever escaped the confines of Africa and became established in the New World (with dramatic consequences for history) it never did so in tropical Asia. I wonder what happens if...

So, if The Netherlands manage to keep Belgium in 1830, is it plausible that they will set up new colonies, especially in Africa or Asia? The Dutch king William I wanted to make The Netherlands a great power again, and he knew that he needed (more) colonies for that. For example: is it maybe...