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OTL's China in 2020 has essentially no institutional continuity with those of China pre-1912. Multiple revolutions, purges, wars, etc. since that time have made it so that the current government of the People's Republic of China is essentially a distinct entity from that of earlier imperial times. This is quite different from the older dynastic changes, where in many cases, much of the instruments and institutions used in the governing of China were conserved when a new regime established itself.
Modern China's government is broadly Western in structure, and even though it is not a Liberal Democracy, it has bodies like the National Peoples' Congress that are copied from or influenced by Western government structures. Of course, the PRC was also founded as a Marxist regime, and adopting a Western political ideology as the fundamental governing ideology of the nation is a large break from the Imperial government. Even though you could make a fair argument that it is less Marxist today, the political ideologies and ideas motivating modern Chinese political actors generally come from Western political science and social theories, and not any type Confucianism.
The challenge here is to conserve as much of late Imperial China's institutions as you deem possible in 2020 China- the Imperial Exam/Scholar-Gentry, The Administrative Structure, State Support for Confucianism, The Emperor/Imperial Rites, and others. The POD can't be earlier than 1600 or outside of East Asia.
Modern China's government is broadly Western in structure, and even though it is not a Liberal Democracy, it has bodies like the National Peoples' Congress that are copied from or influenced by Western government structures. Of course, the PRC was also founded as a Marxist regime, and adopting a Western political ideology as the fundamental governing ideology of the nation is a large break from the Imperial government. Even though you could make a fair argument that it is less Marxist today, the political ideologies and ideas motivating modern Chinese political actors generally come from Western political science and social theories, and not any type Confucianism.
The challenge here is to conserve as much of late Imperial China's institutions as you deem possible in 2020 China- the Imperial Exam/Scholar-Gentry, The Administrative Structure, State Support for Confucianism, The Emperor/Imperial Rites, and others. The POD can't be earlier than 1600 or outside of East Asia.