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With a PoD no earlier than 1970, find a way to reverse the fates of the Soviet Union and Red China; that is, the USSR survives and remains powerful well into the 21st Century, while the PRC collapses sometime in the 1990s.

I assume that one way would be to reverse their economic fates. Perhaps this could be done by having a more competent reformer take power in the USSR (maybe Breznehv dies early and Andropov is able to seize power earlier than in OTL) while Mao is succeeded not by Deng Xiaoping but some Maoist lackey that continues to drive the Chinese economy into the dirt.

Another way might be to somehow keep the Sino-American rapprochement of the 1970s from occurring, so that the US continues to back Taiwan, Tibet, and other proxies against Beijing.
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