AHC: Largest possible annexation of territory in the 20th century

France cooperates more eagerly with Hitler - for example, they collapse faster, Hitler occupies less land, and there is less of a Free France movement. As thus, it is decided they should be punished after an Allied victory (I think there were various Allied politicians who wanted this to happen IOTL), and Britain takes all their colonial holdings, possibly with a few exceptions. That's millions of square kilometers right there just in French Africa (somewhere between 5-7 million if my estimates are correct).
 
China completely implodes around 1900 (seems feasible) and some strongman actually achieves centralized control over China's core population base by 1908, and immediately begins reforms. From 1910-1919 they get 7% growth per year, join the allies, renounce most unequal treaties, and establish reliable centralized control over Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet.

In the 20s they grow at 10% per year and emerge as one of the worlds strongest by 1930. They pull out 6% growth in the 30s and become the worlds largest economy. WWII still happens and China rolls into Siberia and Korea taking almost everything in Siberia and all of Korea.
 
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The Space Race keeps going for longer than in OTL. There's no general prohibition of extraterrestrial territorial claims in this timeline's Outer Space Treaty. Someone (probably the USA or USSR) annexes the Moon or Mars.
 
The Soviet Union's collapse is a lot more chaotic and bloody than OTL, with major civil war between different factions. China occupies the east of Siberia as a peacekeeper, and - as demographics change due to Chinese settlement - eventually annexes it.
 
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