Will Kürlich Kerl
Banned
Challenge: With a POD after 1792, what is the Smallest possible independent mainland China that isn't a puppet state of another country and isn't carved into spheres of influences?
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Having the Mongols do to China what they did to the Middle East would go a long way.
Mainland China.
Challenge: With a POD after 1792, what is the Smallest possible independent mainland China that isn't a puppet state of another country and isn't carved into spheres of influences?
This is unclear: are large parts of China allowed to be colonized and the independent part is the remnant? Because that could be quite small. Or do you mean "what is the smallest China could be with the rest of OTL China identifying itself as non-Chinese?"
Bruce
I actually think Mongolia getting Inner Mongolia is unlikely, even in a very limited form, because it would effectively Sinicize Mongolia, or at least, add a gigantic Chinese minority. Manchuria is the same, by the late 19th century, which is why a long-term Manchukuo is basically impossible, leaving aside that it would violate the POD, and before, nobody has the will or interest.