AHC: Western versus Eastern Civilization Cold War?

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Hello, this the first time I'm making a post to this part of the forums.

The scenario I propose is something similar to that of LurkerLordB's Easternized World, where nations such as China, Indonesia, and Japan gain technological advancements and colonies, but instead of the East completely dominating the world and spreading its influence and culture en masse, the West still rises to power and prominence like IOTL, competing against the eastern powers in a Cold War.

Could this of happened? What nations could rise to prominence? How would Europe and Asia influence and interact with each other? How would colonization go of the Americas, Africa, and Oceania play out?
 
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Why would Poona feel any more cultural/political similarity to Beijing or Istanbul than Paris or Rome- your conception of the East lumps together a lot of extremely different and often opposing cultures, peoples and civilisations. Any such scenario, IMO requires a POD at least before Christ and even then it’d require a lot of acrobatics to get anything like that to be feasible.
 
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