AH Challenge (with a fun intro!): Prevent the Sino-Soviet Split

OK, gonna try and be a little more theatrical with this challenge.

From: Multiversal Timelines Department
To: AH.com Institute
We are aware of your interest and expertise in our department's field work. We are in need of your services. We would also recommend this work be Please note that this message is classified and will not be repeated.

As you may know, our department works in both chronicalling all of the alternate timelines in the multiverse, and chronicalling. As you know, it is very hard to get a complete picture of a timeline, and often times it takes extensive work to find both the point-of-diversion from our timeline. Oftentimes, we create hypothetical timeline based around suspected points-of-diversion, and run a compartison in our computing system to the alternate timeline that we are analysing. If we determine similitaries, even vague ones, that helps us detirmine the exact path of this timeline. That is what we need your services for.

Of course, many of the exact reasons for this project are still classified, and be warned that excessive prying into these reasons by any of your alternate historians may result in their ejection from the project. And, of course, any revelation of secrets that we choose to give your AH.com-ers to the public, will result in severe punishments and likely a jail-sentance exceeding ten years

The subject of your work is the Sino-Soviet Split, in the 1950s and 1960s. We suspect that one of our timelines may have a point-of-diversion involving the Sino-Soviet Split, and that is what you will focus on.

The job, if any of your AH.com-ers choose to accept, is to attempt to find a way to cause the Sino-Soviet Split not to occur. Also, if you choose, you may create a scenaro for what happens after that.

Farewell.
 

MacCaulay

Banned
Well...if, perhaps...the Korean peninsula was completely under US or Soviet control after World War II.

Kim Il Sung (or was it his father? No. Kim Il Sung WAS the father) was one of the biggest wedges that got shoved into the Sino-Soviet relationship.

Without a divided Korea, there would be no need to create a powerful Korean dictator, and Kim Il Sung might even stay in China, where he was at the end of the Second World War.

That's just my two cents.
 
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