asian colonialism

All the American Philippines posts have left me concluding that the idea needed a better foundation of PoD's to be able to stand. So — what are the paths that America can go through to so that McKinley (or whoever the advocates and movers can be by then) can sell his idea better to the American...

(So, I'm trying to come up with an idea for a concept for a private project of mine, inspired by @Ambassador Huntsman's timeline amazing Nobunaga's Ambition Timeline (Go read it if you haven't), but not using the Gavin Menzies' 1421 idea; I want late East Asian colonization, where Japan...

Despite kickstarting the age of exploration with their Aztec gold and controlling the 4th largest empire in history at its height (then the largest by a huge margin), Spain didn't have much of an Asian empire. The Philippines were good for what they were, plantations and a stop on the way to...