The challenge is to come up with a scenario where roles are somewhat reversed: India becomes a communist state and a Soviet ally after WW2, while China becomes capitalist and a US ally. As you probably guessed, the aim is to bring the Cold War to Asia in earnest
The rules:
- POD can be as early as you like, but keep it in the 20th century
- WW2 should be as per OTL, even if your POD is before that (no big butterflies and such)
- India and Pakistan can stay together in one big communist state
- China can be an authoritarian state, but no outright dictatorship if possible
- It doesn’t have to be an even competition: if you think a capitalist China can become a third superpower while India remains in poverty, or if you think a planned economy could help India get their problems sorted out (even with considerable loss of life, like an Indian Great Leap Forward) and capitalism causes China to remain agrarian, go for it J
- Various other Asian states are up for grabs, I would imagine both states wanting to get influence in Indichina and other places anyways
PS: I tried looking for a scenario like this but only found an old DBWI thread