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  1. Music, Hippies, and Pop Culture of an alternate KMT-ruled China during the 1960s

    In my revised alt-timeline scenario, KMT-ruled China of the 1960s is a Western ally that possesses a nuclear arsenal. As of 1967, it has a large GDP of 570 billion USD and a population of 700 million. Its territory spans OTL China, Taiwan, the Diaoyu Islands, and Western Xikang Province...
  2. Alt Timeline: China the Superpower (Chinese Armor)

    In this timeline, the ROC won the Chinese Civil War, and then annexed back East Turkestan. This version of the ROC controls all of Mainland China (excluding Macau that is to be returned in 1980 and HK that is to be returned in 1997), Taiwan, and the Diaoyu Islands except for Western and Central...
  3. Alternate History Timeline: China the Superpower (The Drug Wars of Southeast Asia)

    Hi! I am currently writing an alternate history timeline in which the KMT defeated the Communists and re-united China (including Taiwan and the Diaoyu Islands but not Mongolia and Tuva). In this timeline, Tibet is a Chinese protectorate, as China chose to vassalize Tibet instead of annexing it...
  4. Alternate History Timeline: China the Superpower (Chinese Light Machine Guns)

    Hi! I am currently writing an alternate history timeline in which the KMT defeated the Communists and re-united China (excluding Mongolia and Tuva). Note that in this timeline, Tibet is a Chinese protectorate because China chose to vassalize Tibet instead of annexing it. In this timeline, the...
  5. Alternate History Timeline: China the Superpower (The Chinese Car Industry as of 1978)

    Hi! I am currently writing an alternate history timeline in which the KMT defeated the Communists and re-united China (excluding Mongolia and Tuva). In this timeline, Tibet is a Chinese protectorate, as China chose to vassalize Tibet instead of annexing it. In this timeline, the Chinese car...
  6. Alternate History Timeline: China the Superpower (Chinese Weaponry)

    Top-of-the-line Chinese weaponry as of 1978: Service Rifle: Type 59 Rifle (License produced Colt M16A1) The Type 59 is a variant of the M16A1 rifle that was adopted by the R.O.C. Armed Forces in January 1970. Here are the specifications for the Type 59: Select-Fire License-produced variant of...
  7. Alternate History Timeline: China the Superpower

    Hi. I am currently writing a story set in an alternate timeline in which China remains under KMT rule. These are my notes about this alternate timeline. Please review my notes, analyze them, and correct anything if I wrote something wrong or inaccurate. Sorry if the notes are a bit too...
  8. What if France held onto Guangzhouwan until 1997? (reupload)
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    Une ville français en Chine – Broadcast by Antenne 2, 31 December 1996 Good morning and hello to everyone watching. As France prepares for yet another new year, about 6 and half million of us are preparing not only for a new year, but for a new, non-French future. These 6.5 million Frenchmen...
  9. What if France held onto Guangzhouwan: A history of Gwangzhouwan from 1898 to 1997
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    Une ville français en Chine – Broadcast by Antenne 2, 31 December 1996 Good morning and hello to everyone watching. As France prepares for yet another new year, about 6 and half million of us are preparing not only for a new year, but for a future apart from France. These 6.5 million Frenchmen...
  10. Could China become a democracy in the 1910s?

    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...
  11. Sarthak

    Swap the fates of Taiwan and Hainan

    With a PoD of 1946 make sure that the PRC still wins the Chinese Civil War, but they successfully manage to take Taiwan but the ROC remains doggedly in Hainan. What would the effects of such a swap be in the geopolitics of the region?
  12. AHC: Have ancient China become a republic

    There are many posts here and in general comparing China and Rome while both being powerful, long lasting empires that heavily influence the regions they're in. but while Rome was originally a republic China has always been dynastic/monarchal, which makes me wonder could the inverse of what...
  13. World Mapping

    WI: China invades Taiwan on 2022/02/24?

    Idk if this qualifies as alternate history, but here we go. Asking out of curiosity, what would have happened had China invaded Taiwan on the 24th of February 2022, the same day Russia invaded Ukraine?
  14. The_Persian_Cat

    AHC/WI: Successful Yuan Shikai?

    Hello all, Yuan Shikai was a Chinese Revolutionary general who became president of the Republic of China in 1912. His tenure is widely regarded as little more than a corrupt dictatorship, and in 1915, he went so far as to abolish the Republic and proclaim a new "Chinese Empire," styling himself...
  15. European US Japan Intervention in Chinese warlord era

    what if US, Japan and Europeans Intervened in Chinese warlord era to keep China divided like they did to Boxer rebellion ? will it succeed? can they carve out satellite states out China
  16. 沒有國民黨就沒有中國, Without the Kuomintang there would be no China, A Republic of China Story
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    諸言-Intoduction China has been a great civilization since antiquity. But with greatness comes envy. For thousands of years, China’s enemies sought to plunder and conquer. Since these enemies usually came from the North, a Great Wall was built to keep them out. But no one had expected that...
  17. The_Persian_Cat

    PRC "Taiwan" in Mongolia?

    Hey all, So as we all know, the Kuomintang was forced to evacuate mainland China for Taiwan in 1949. The Chinese Civil War may be de facto over, but the Kuomintang government in Taiwan is still known as the "Republic of China," still claims to be the rightful government over all of China, and...
  18. Gillan1220

    Why did the United States have a love-hate relationship with the KMT and how could it have been repaired to prevent the rise of the PRC?

    What is says on the tin. What caused this rift between Truman and Chiang? How could the U.S. and the KMT reset relations so that the ROC would not lose control of the mainland?
  19. Duke Andrew of Dank

    DBWI: Italy-China Fascist Alliance Doesn't Happen in WWII, What Then?

    As we all know, Mussolini's Italy and Chiang Kai-sek's China forged a major alliance in their efforts to protect their respective interests in Western Asia, as well as to ostensibly prevent Communist take-overs of allies and neighboring countries. The Anglo-Japanese Alliance was re-forged for...
  20. Bomster

    WI: A different Chinese Republic

    Let’s say that Yuan Shikai dies or something before 1911. Without him, how does the Xinhai Revolution unfold without Yuan? Would the revolutionaries still be successful? Would the fledgling Chinese Republic avoid the warlord period? Or would it fall apart?
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