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It doesn't seem to me that the (popular) status of China as generally being united into a single polity is foreordained, based on the geography of the country and that fact that is has been disunited a number of times in history. Therefore, I was wondering what possibilities might exist to prevent China (that is, excluding Yunnan, Sichuan, Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, or Manchuria) from being politically unified more than (relatively) briefly, akin to the Roman Empire in European history?

And, supposing that it was politically divided, what changes would be experienced in world history? Clearly steppe politics, Korean history, Japanese history, and Vietnamese history would be quite different...
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