democracy

The title speaks for itself. What if the Chinese government decided to crack down on the protests in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, and in other parts of China.

As we all know, both China and India are rising (near) superpowers which have thriving economies, nuclear arsenals, first-rate armed forces, and increasing assertiveness foreign policy-wise but this is where the similarity ends as the Republic of China is the world's largest democracy (even...

Let's go for an arbitrary POD of 1836. Could we see a gradual showing of a cold war between Democratic and Absolute Monarchism powers? They have to be relatively balanced in power scale to create a cold war, possibly make it so that a Atomic bomb development earlier makes it far more like a...

Ηγεμών Αθἠνα and the warring states of ΑΣΙΑ./ A 460 BC Athens hegemony ATL. Hello to my second ATL try. This is going to be a rather small ATL with a POD in 461 BC when Ephialtes the radical democratic leader of Athens was assassinated. Ps: The research of this ATL was based mostly in the...

The challenge is to create an america with 2 political parties, probably still the Democrats and Republicans, who have dramatically different positions and voting coalitions than OTL Democrats and Republicans. The pod or pods have to be after 1900. It cant be a massive gain for 1 party, it has...

Is it possible to have a functional democratic republic in Great Britain and Ireland after the French Revolution? Would it last to present day or It'd be replaced by a Monarchy restoration?

September 1939 Germany and Soviet Union divided Poland after successful Invasion on Poland. This outraged Western Allies regimes. who called this as act of aggression and murder (PoD). Summer 1941 US Congress rejected idea of sending Lend-Lease to Soviet Union. Instead some of strenghtened...

VICTORY FOR CHINESE DEMOCRACY A Global Wikipedia-Style Timeline with Daily Updates PART I: 1947-1952 Regional Focus: Eastern and Southeastern Asia Chinese Revolution of 1947 The Chinese Revolution of 1947, named the Thirty-Six Revolution domestically because it occurred on the 36th...

Pretty much what it says, find an elegant way to have the Attic democracy win the Peloponnesian War and build a large empire. The condition is that Athens stay a democracy in the process, so no Emperor of Greece or something like that. Democracy means that every free male citizen hast the same...

Nanjing Radio 14th September 2016 Good Morning Nanjing! Today it's 14th September 2016, Wednesday. Weather in Nanjing is sunny, there is a bit of smog but it's just fine and you can calmly breathe. One hundred and four years ago first Chinese president Yuan Shikai was assasinated by lone...

In most republics / democracies, the right to vote was restricted more or less at the start. (Women, young people, poor people, illiterates, foreigners / new immigrants, cultural or religious minorities, criminals, non-landowners, even soldiers were or are excluded from voting in some...