WI either the leadership decides not to order troops to attack the protests or troops refuse to do so.
How much of a democracy could China be?
How much of a democracy could China be?
Or trolls proclaiming "China need not democracy, need not throwing banana".Well, for starters, there’s no filters blocking out AlternateHistory.com!!![]()
Actually the protests were winding down by the time the troops got sent inCountry devolves into civil war? (for like the 3rd time within the century). I always wondered what a nuclear civil war would look like...
Seriously, the reason the government decided to go full oppression OTL was because there was an actual threat to their hold on power, and if they can't ensure enough loyalty from the military (or lack the guts to use the military, which would lead to lack of loyalty from them anyways) to crush the "flowering of democracy" then their days are numbered.
Medium to long term events:
-china gets trashed, again, nothing new except maybe the amount of radiation this time (death count might be somewhere between the previous civil war and Taipei Rebellion)
-SE Asia will reap the benefits of globalization and Western investment, some might even take a couple of chunks of land from the Chinese mess in the meantime
-various island disputes became a much more grey and grey affair since none of the remaining relevant claimants have a moral high ground anymore due to PRC out of the picture.
-DPRK is fucked, unless they act a lot of rational/irrational, like getting nukes much earlier
-Taiwan maybe getting back their UNSC seat? Or maybe that'll go to the upcoming superpower India?
-some nuclear scientist will end up in interesting places working for other countries. Nuclear proliferation might happen a bit more than OTL
-whoever wins the civil war will be verybutthurtrevanchist and angry, and extremely nationalist to boot. Think bigger and meaner OTL DPRK.
The first scenario (no troops get sent in) and the second (the troops mutiny) are pretty differentWI either the leadership decides not to order troops to attack the protests or troops refuse to do so.
How much of a democracy could China be?
Well, for starters, there’s no filters blocking out AlternateHistory.com!!