AHC - Dzungar dominated Xinjiang

The challenge is to have the Dzungar survive to the present and dominate Xinjiang.

Bonus points if Dzungaria ends up like OTL Mongolia and the Dzungar genocide is butterflied away, though do not mind if Dzungaria becomes a Russian or Chinese ruled autonomous region.
 
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The challenge is to have the Dzungar survive to the present and dominate Xinjiang.

Bonus points if Dzungaria ends up like OTL Mongolia and the Dzungar genocide is butterflied away, though do not mind if Dzungaria becomes a Russian or Chinese ruled autonomous region.

Um, the POD is to not have the Dzungar Genocide by the Qing.
 
The challenge is to have the Dzungar survive to the present and dominate Xinjiang.

Bonus points if Dzungaria ends up like OTL Mongolia and the Dzungar genocide is butterflied away, though do not mind if Dzungaria becomes a Russian or Chinese ruled autonomous region.

Dzungars and Uighurs are not only very different peoples, their homelands (Dzungaria, Tarim basin) were completely different too. Due to the Dzungars being nomadic and the Uighurs being oasis farmers with contacts to civilization by the silk road, the Uighurs were predisposed to dominate Xinjang even if the Dzungar genocide doesn't happen.

However, if the Qing never conquer the area, there won't be a Xinjang. Instead, there will be a Uighur khanate around the Tarim and a bunch of nomads up in the basin above.
 
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