AHC: Soviet-American Alliance Against China

Your challenge should you choose to accept it is to create a war where the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics(communist) and the United States of America(democratic, non-communist) are allied together against the People's Republic of China(communist) with a POD after 1900. The PRC must be a credible threat to both nations, and even with its defeat, some sort of Chinese nation must still exist. Bonus points if the POD is after WWII and/or the Cold War ends because of this
 
Lin Bao takes power in the 60s, and starts an assertive foreign policy.
But would that be enough to make America and Russia join forces? The reason that this is a challenge and not a discussion is because all the scenarios I can imagine involving a USA-USSR-PRC war involves the USA supporting or allying with the PRC against the USSR, and I wanted something different
 
Seems tough, early China 1900's was plagued with problems ranging from corruption, warlords, Invasions by Japan and a civil war. When the communists did win they had a mess to sort out of the KMT government's screw up and questionable policies under Mao. China could become a possible credible threat to both countries is if they had a decent navy and perhaps long range missiles to threaten the U.S however having your navy sunk by Japan and being land power anyway makes the Navy aspect unlikely. Also if both the USSR and USA have nukes what real threat can China even try to pose to either of them, not to mention both of them. They would pretty much be worried about each other than China.

At best you would have to POD where the Qing can at least compete with European powers, so China can start on better footing, but that would be before 1900 and we could possibly not even have a Soviet Union.
 

elkarlo

Banned
What about when the USSR asked if it was cool with us to nuke China? What if we negotiated a way out of Vietnam with allowing the Soviets to attack China?
 
I cannot see a later USSR and America joining forces, after they polarize, it needs to happen early in the existence of the USSR, or have the USSR survive until modern day and begin to build ties with the Americans.
 
I was thinking that maybe Nixon visits Russia rather than China and establishes ties there, effectively ending the Cold War. That wouldn't explain how China became a threat, though.

Or you could maybe have the Soviet coup of '91 not happen, so the USSR lasts at least a little bit longer. Ultra-nationalist China sees its chance with a weak USSR and attacks, leading to the USA helping the Soviets. ASB and Tom Clancy-ish, but it's all I can think of right now
 

Kongzilla

Banned
China becomes more assertive in North Vietnam while accidentally sparking a war with the Soviet Union. USSR attacks and America just pretends not to hear anything.
 
China becomes more assertive in North Vietnam while accidentally sparking a war with the Soviet Union. USSR attacks and America just pretends not to hear anything.
That's...not really what I'm looking for. I'm looking more for a Soviet-American Alliance, not just a war where one doesn't do anything
 
I have no idea if you could make this happen - probably not - but IOTL apparently Kennedy wanted to launch a joint air strike with Russia to eliminate China's budding nuclear weapons program.
 
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