tiananmen square

Most, if not all Tiananmen Square AHs feature China transitioning into either a fledgling liberal democracy or a Russia-like kleptocracy. This time, I would like to try a whole different approach to this PoD...

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...

How could the reformist faction within the Chinese Communist Party (represented by Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang) defeat the conservatives in the dispute that took place in the late eighties and ended with the crackdown on the Tiananmen protests? A turning point that was just as important as the...

Going back to 1989, what's a plausible action the West and the United States could have taken in response to the Tiananmen Square Massacre that would've had the most significant consequences for China-Western relations today? Could the massacre have shaken the U.S. foreign policy establishment...

Exactly what it says on the tin. What if, instead of brutally cracking down on them and killing thousands of people as ordered, the soldiers sent too suppress the Tiananmen Square protest joined the protestors. I’m well aware this probably not a plausible scenario, but I do think it would be an...

Today, the 4th of June, is the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests (as known as National Remberance Day in China), which has successfully toppled the rule of the Chinese Communist Party. While watching a broadcast of the President of China laying wreaths in the Goddess of Democracy...

Is there any way that the protests at Tiananmen Square could escalate into a full blown revolution a la Romania or East Germany? What would be the effects of such a revolution? Would it even succeed?