AHC: Union of Chinese Soviet Socialist Republics

raharris1973

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The challenge is to have a Communist China that constitutionally treats some or all of OTL's "autonomous regions" as "Union Republics" formally sovereign and empowered to secede.
 
IMHO, that would require a more multiethnic China, with minorities dominating outlying provinces with the Han majority being too slim a majority to effectively control them. This in turn needs a earlier POD. The very most that could happen could be Min, Sichuanese and Cantonese etc. being seen as ethnicities, but that's already fairly improbable.
 
In OTL the 1931 Constitution of the Chinese Soviet Republic proclaimed: "The Soviet government of China recognizes the right of self-determination of the national minorities in China, their right to complete separation from China, and to the formation of an independent state for each national minority. All Mongolians, Tibetans, Miao, Yao, Koreans, and others living on the territory of China shall enjoy the full right to self-determination, i.e. they may either join the Union of Chinese Soviets or secede from it and form their own state as they may prefer." https://sites.google.com/site/legalmaterialsontibet/home/communist-constitution-1931
 

CaliGuy

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In OTL the 1931 Constitution of the Chinese Soviet Republic proclaimed: "The Soviet government of China recognizes the right of self-determination of the national minorities in China, their right to complete separation from China, and to the formation of an independent state for each national minority. All Mongolians, Tibetans, Miao, Yao, Koreans, and others living on the territory of China shall enjoy the full right to self-determination, i.e. they may either join the Union of Chinese Soviets or secede from it and form their own state as they may prefer." https://sites.google.com/site/legalmaterialsontibet/home/communist-constitution-1931
So, in other words, Mao made this promise and then changed his mind, correct?

Also, though, off-topic, but out of curiosity--exactly which other Communist leaders other than in the USSR, China, Yugoslavia, and maybe Czechoslovakia ever supported the concept of secession for the various constituent parts/ethnic groups of their country?

Any thoughts on this?
 
Out of curiosity--when exactly did these ethnic groups become fully assimilated Chinese?
They always considered themselves, and were considered Han Chinese, just having different dialects/languages and similar cultures. But IMHO they're different enough to start considering themselves an ethnicity with, say a century or 2 of independence (Independence as in considering itself a nation, not as a warlord state). When a country gets big enough (eg: China, US), things like these starts to appear. Think the difference between a Texan and a Californian.
 
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