THE ASIAN AND CHINESE WARS
1980 - 1994
A Russian Republic soldier watches over a northern Chinese town from his machine gun nest (1980)
1980 - 1994
A Russian Republic soldier watches over a northern Chinese town from his machine gun nest (1980)
When Chiang Kai Shek died in 1980, the power vacuum left China on edge. Russia's Sergei Romanov II was determined to use this to his advantage. He helped fund several Chinese generals' and admirals' attempts to take power in Peking simply to make sure the Chinese people were as divided as possible. The Muslim Uyghurs, a Turkic minority in Xinjiang and the western areas of China, were on the warpath for independence, and several rebellions were breaking out in southern Asia.
The ancient Chinese foe, Thailand (or Siam), was also undergoing civil unrest. On May 1st, 1980, hundreds of students marched into the Royal Palace in Bangkok and deposed the royal family, establishing a democratic system akin to the Columbian nations. This revolt spread to the nearby Chinese regions of Laos and Cambodia. Thai troops joined the revolutionary brigades in these regions and helped keep out the Chinese forces while order was restored. An attempted overthrow of Chinese authority in Burma ended in bloodshed and horror as Chinese troops rounded up and murdered thousands of civilians and conducted ethnic cleansing of rebellious groups. Facing such a huge threat, the rebel regions joined Thailand as the United Democracy of Indochina. Russia immediately sent military advisers and trainers down to aid the rebel forces. By August, things had spiraled out of control as an undeclared war between Russia and China saw Russian and Chinese troops killing each other in burning Indochinese villages. The United Nations, never one to be fond of Russia but unable to ignore the brutality of the Chinese, declared Indochina a humanitarian crisis zone and drew up plans with Russia for joint operations to effectively neutralize China as a great power.
Several Chinese leaders had risen and fallen in the brief period since the death of Chiang Kai Shek, but by September, a council of twelve generals had largely won out over all the others. Now, they rallied their people for the fight in the south and kicked their nuclear program into high gear. Russian spies revealed that within two years, China would have a nuclear missile.
In a race against time, the international and Russian forces desperately tried to secure independence for Indochina. Burma was a smoking crater, with over two million civilians rumored to have been murdered by the Chinese Army. In Vietnam, where the Chinese still were (just barely) in control, Thai pilots flying Russian-manufactured planes and airships blew up the northern border separating Vietnam from southern China. Revolution swept the streets and Vietnam declared itself to be a part of the the United Democracy of Indochina. UDI and Russian troops marched into the major cities and arrested and executed swathes of Chinese officers for war crimes.
Romanov II made sure to give the Russian people a sense of moral superiority by playing up the extent of Chinese atrocities as much as possible. The 'Yellow Brute of Peking" became a popular slur for the Chinese Republic. Fascist Indonesia's helping China did not make things look better internationally. Indonesian officers (some former American ones) had been the ones who had advised the Chinese on how to conduct fast ethnic cleansing. But despite exaggeration, China was committing brutal acts of genocide, especially against the peoples of the southern regions and the Muslims.
Finally, things began cooling down in 1982, as Chinese troops finally were forced out of Burma for good. Russia was not done, however, with its crusade against China. Despite setbacks, the Chinese nuclear program was still active, with an estimated six months to go before working bombs could be made. On May 9th, 1983, Russian troops invaded the Korean Peninsula and declared it part of Russia. China immediately declared war. United Nations troops swarmed into Tibet and Nepal, establishing UN Mandates and installing puppet governments who received their orders from the newly established "United Nations Council of Sovereigns" in Sardinia. Facing total opposition from the rest of the world (except Indochina and South Africa), China knew it was on the path to total defeat. In a last ditch effort to end the war, the Chinese nuclear research scientists threw everything they had into two very small nuclear weapons. On October 20th, 1983, the first bomb, hidden inside a shipping container, exploded in the port of Reval, Estonia, killing over 30,000 people and injuring 200,000 thousand more. China then issued a threat, saying that unless international forces immediately stopped hostilities, another bomb would go off somewhere in France.
This was a poor route for the Chinese to take. The Imperial Secret Service immediately located the conspiracy to detonate a bomb in Normandy and shut it down, easily finding and disarming the small nuke while it was being hidden on a cargo ship near the Horn of Africa. Russia was incensed, and Sergei immediately launched a retaliatory strike on China, nuking the city of Qufu, the place of origin for the conspiracy, killing 300,000 people. Further non-nuclear strikes occurred all over China, resulting in a total collapse of the Chinese government. In just a few short years, China went from a growing great power to a collection of shattered regions barely able to call itself a nation. Russian troops pressed onward to Peking and burned it to the ground. Knowing a total occupation of mainland China was a foolhardy misadventure, Russia scorched the major cities and left, taking everything of value, from gold, to paintings, to books, to women, to vehicles, and more, as well as executing or absconding with all of China's nuclear experts and destroying all research. The Chinese people were furious and revanchist, but nothing could be done. Swarms of politicians and general squabbled over who would next take the helm of China, but they knew China's glory days were behind her. Indochinese forces took the provinces of Guangxi and Guangdong to complete the national humiliation. China had lost a third of its empire and millions of soldiers and citizens. But even more would die.
Russian troops in northern China (1983)
The ancient Chinese foe, Thailand (or Siam), was also undergoing civil unrest. On May 1st, 1980, hundreds of students marched into the Royal Palace in Bangkok and deposed the royal family, establishing a democratic system akin to the Columbian nations. This revolt spread to the nearby Chinese regions of Laos and Cambodia. Thai troops joined the revolutionary brigades in these regions and helped keep out the Chinese forces while order was restored. An attempted overthrow of Chinese authority in Burma ended in bloodshed and horror as Chinese troops rounded up and murdered thousands of civilians and conducted ethnic cleansing of rebellious groups. Facing such a huge threat, the rebel regions joined Thailand as the United Democracy of Indochina. Russia immediately sent military advisers and trainers down to aid the rebel forces. By August, things had spiraled out of control as an undeclared war between Russia and China saw Russian and Chinese troops killing each other in burning Indochinese villages. The United Nations, never one to be fond of Russia but unable to ignore the brutality of the Chinese, declared Indochina a humanitarian crisis zone and drew up plans with Russia for joint operations to effectively neutralize China as a great power.
Several Chinese leaders had risen and fallen in the brief period since the death of Chiang Kai Shek, but by September, a council of twelve generals had largely won out over all the others. Now, they rallied their people for the fight in the south and kicked their nuclear program into high gear. Russian spies revealed that within two years, China would have a nuclear missile.
Russian troops on the march in Cambodia
In a race against time, the international and Russian forces desperately tried to secure independence for Indochina. Burma was a smoking crater, with over two million civilians rumored to have been murdered by the Chinese Army. In Vietnam, where the Chinese still were (just barely) in control, Thai pilots flying Russian-manufactured planes and airships blew up the northern border separating Vietnam from southern China. Revolution swept the streets and Vietnam declared itself to be a part of the the United Democracy of Indochina. UDI and Russian troops marched into the major cities and arrested and executed swathes of Chinese officers for war crimes.
Romanov II made sure to give the Russian people a sense of moral superiority by playing up the extent of Chinese atrocities as much as possible. The 'Yellow Brute of Peking" became a popular slur for the Chinese Republic. Fascist Indonesia's helping China did not make things look better internationally. Indonesian officers (some former American ones) had been the ones who had advised the Chinese on how to conduct fast ethnic cleansing. But despite exaggeration, China was committing brutal acts of genocide, especially against the peoples of the southern regions and the Muslims.
Finally, things began cooling down in 1982, as Chinese troops finally were forced out of Burma for good. Russia was not done, however, with its crusade against China. Despite setbacks, the Chinese nuclear program was still active, with an estimated six months to go before working bombs could be made. On May 9th, 1983, Russian troops invaded the Korean Peninsula and declared it part of Russia. China immediately declared war. United Nations troops swarmed into Tibet and Nepal, establishing UN Mandates and installing puppet governments who received their orders from the newly established "United Nations Council of Sovereigns" in Sardinia. Facing total opposition from the rest of the world (except Indochina and South Africa), China knew it was on the path to total defeat. In a last ditch effort to end the war, the Chinese nuclear research scientists threw everything they had into two very small nuclear weapons. On October 20th, 1983, the first bomb, hidden inside a shipping container, exploded in the port of Reval, Estonia, killing over 30,000 people and injuring 200,000 thousand more. China then issued a threat, saying that unless international forces immediately stopped hostilities, another bomb would go off somewhere in France.
This was a poor route for the Chinese to take. The Imperial Secret Service immediately located the conspiracy to detonate a bomb in Normandy and shut it down, easily finding and disarming the small nuke while it was being hidden on a cargo ship near the Horn of Africa. Russia was incensed, and Sergei immediately launched a retaliatory strike on China, nuking the city of Qufu, the place of origin for the conspiracy, killing 300,000 people. Further non-nuclear strikes occurred all over China, resulting in a total collapse of the Chinese government. In just a few short years, China went from a growing great power to a collection of shattered regions barely able to call itself a nation. Russian troops pressed onward to Peking and burned it to the ground. Knowing a total occupation of mainland China was a foolhardy misadventure, Russia scorched the major cities and left, taking everything of value, from gold, to paintings, to books, to women, to vehicles, and more, as well as executing or absconding with all of China's nuclear experts and destroying all research. The Chinese people were furious and revanchist, but nothing could be done. Swarms of politicians and general squabbled over who would next take the helm of China, but they knew China's glory days were behind her. Indochinese forces took the provinces of Guangxi and Guangdong to complete the national humiliation. China had lost a third of its empire and millions of soldiers and citizens. But even more would die.
Russian troops in northern China (1983)
As what was left of the Republic of China was left to its own affairs, the various regions turned on each other in a near post-apocalyptic resource war. The southern regions, heavily influenced by their old Dutch overlords, formed the Republic of Hunan in the July of 1984. The province of Sichuan formed the Free State of Sichuan in August. In October, a group of revolutionaries north of Hunan declared the Republic of Central China. These new nations went to war over six times in the ten years, culminating in the Great Chinese War, where the Republic of China (commonly known as North China) and Sichuan battled Hunan and Central China over a series of longstanding, almost incomprehensible border dand trade disputes (this war was technically a spin-off conflict of the Third Sichuan-Central Chinese War).
List of Chinese Wars 1984 -1994:
- First Sichuan-Central Chinese War (December, 1984 - March, 1985)
- Muslim Insurgency in Sichuan (December, 1984 - August, 1990)
- Second Sichuan-Central Chinese War (November, 1985 - April, 1986)
- Hunan-Sichuan War (August, 1986 - September, 1986)
- Republic of China-Central Chinese War (December, 1986 - February, 1988)
- Third Sichuan-Central Chinese War (June, 1988 - March, 1990)
- Great Chinese War (March, 1990 - November, 1994)
Overall, over twenty million people are alleged to have died because of direct or indirect consequences of the Chinese Wars. Even thought the world was used to bloody genocidal wars, this was considered especially horrific, on par with the worst fighting during the Fall of the New United States. Samuel Barrow, one of Virginia's leading politicians during this period, called the Chinese Wars "one of the biggest, most catastrophic, and most pointless disasters in human history." In the late 1990s, the United Nations would finally move to intervene and end the madness...
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