taiwan

(Realm of the Siraya Confederacy) The Taiwanese Aborigines established a state-level Civilization of their own called the ''Siraya Confederacy'' unifying most of Taiwan. The Atayal people, for example, known for their impressive defensive fortifications, while the Bunun excelling in ironworking...

The Chinese in Indonesia are hated by all Indonesians - by the Islamists as "kafirs", by the nationalists as "collaborators of the colonialists", by the rightists as "communists" and even by the communists as "capitalists" - the overseas Chinese are overrepresented in the economy of countries...

Everyone likes to talk about the idea that one of the biggest changes was the "One Child Policy" of China was s a population planning initiative in China implemented between 1979 and 2015 to curb the country's population growth by restricting many families to a single child. The program had...

I’m not decided on a particular TL but the something in the 60s could be interesting. My best guess would be fighting would would be funneled into Korea due to it “sore thumb” like nature for both sides. Beyond that IDK. Let me know if this has been discussed before. Also please let me know if...

There are many other threads on this topic, all quite interesting but with slightly different ideas. My main question is, if Britain (it doesn't have to be Britain, it could be another European colonial power, but I find Britain the most likely IOTL) had acquired Taiwan/Formosa as a colony, in...

Just a scenario I cooked in my head. I know this is improbable but for the sake of the scenario, let us discuss the ramifications. Let's just say for some reason after Japan's defeat in WWII, the instrument of surrender only says Japan needs to let Korea and the South Pacific Islands go...

In our own history, the Tiananmen Square Protests erupted largely calling for a soft form of liberalization and government reform only to be brutally supressed, eventually leading to the leadership of Xi Jinping. Meanwhile, south of the Yalu River, Kim-Jong-Il had three sons - Kim Jong-Nam, the...

Taiwan is probably the homeland of the austronesian family language and is not that far from japan, considering their strong naval tradition, is not hard to think austronesians landing in Japan before the Yayoi. What do you think about a austronesian japan society ? More ties to Taiwan...

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?

According to a book I'm reading (The Dragon and the Foreign Devils by Harry Gelber), the Korean War blocked Chinese plans for an invasion of Taiwan in order to reunificate China. Although he doesn't give much detail on this, he makes it clear that had the Korean War not happened, it's possible...

Koxinga is one of the most well-known Chinese generals of the 17th century. He is most famous for dislodging and expelling the Dutch from Taiwan and establishing his own kingdom in there. However, this did not come to pass as he would die just a year after his kingdom was created. According to...

A lot of historical reading over years has given me this idea, but the two articles I'm linking summarize my line of thinking fairly comprehensively. Taiwan: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/question-why-didnt-mao-invade-taiwan-60837 Yugoslavia...

What exactly forced the US to abide by the 1-China policy? As the Cold War neared its end, the US was the undisputed world superpower and the PRC was still far from even hoping to challenge US in any way. For decades the US has had to play this game of not angering the PRC while still...

Inspired by this thread posted by Strategos' Risk. For the sake of this thread assume that the French decided to push things further than our timeline and manage, likely at the cost of a smaller indemnity, to get Germany and Russia as the other two members of the Triple Intervention to agree to...

The PoD is that Third Taiwan Strait crisis escalates into a ''border skirmish'' and PRC captures small Islands near Formosa ( which was IRL anticipated by many). Such move would hugely boost DPP support during the 1996 presidential elections. With DPP winnig the elections BEFORE they have...

After seeing the map below, I wanted to develop this scenario. How could India and China swap places after WW2? India becomes a powerful authoritarian nation. because it was expansionist at first, it controls the area of the British Raj + Tibet + Nepal + Bhutan. India claims Sri Lanka but the...

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?

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...

In OTL, on the island of Taiwan/Formosa, it was contested by the Dutch and the Spanish. The Dutch set themselves up on the South part of the Island, while the Spanish set themselves up on the Northern tip of the Island, in San Salvador. However, the Dutch took the Spanish Formosa, and was the...

Until the late 80s Taiwan actually had a very sophisticated nuclear weapons program which was shut down due to US pressure following a defector informing the CIA of its existence in 1987. Had Taiwan successfully kept a lid on the program until it was able to test a nuke, what would consequences...