AHC: With a Pod after 1975, make China be a failed state like Somalia.

I think the best POD is involving the protests in 89. A collapse in government and civil war would cause serious famine and destruction. I don’t know if that civil war could last as long as the Somali civil war though.
 
The upper-level members of the Chinese government or meeting and a meteor crashes into the building killing all of them.
 
I just remembered there was a similar idea posted about six or seven months ago about what if china population had the same earnings as I think Algeria or was it Tunisia I don’t remember The specifics but they explained the economic poverty as a gang of four ruled China
 
I just remembered there was a similar idea posted about six or seven months ago about what if china population had the same earnings as I think Algeria or was it Tunisia I don’t remember The specifics but they explained the economic poverty as a gang of four ruled China

I think it was a scenario of mine. It was a double what if the gang of four had remained in power and China was at parity with morroco.
 

thorr97

Banned
As I understand it, one of the biggest and constant tasks of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is ensuring the various preexisting and long standing systemic forces within China that would otherwise pull the country apart don't. Ethnicity, regionalism, and so on. This, much like Tito and his regime achieved in Yugoslavia. Note how quickly that country came apart once Tito ceased to be.

If the CPC lost its ability to function nationally toward that requirement then the country could pretty quickly revert back to its regionalism / warlord type set up. This, made all the worse with numerous second tier former CPC members all declaring themselves to be THE true leader of the CPC. Say, Mao dies even more suddenly or was assassinated. Or that his successor loses his attempt to firmly gather all those reins of power in hand.

This is one of the things which keeps the leadership of the CPC awake at night and why they're so adamant in maintaining such systemic control over China as a whole even today.
 

Marc

Donor
A failed state with numerous nuclear devices. The only question is how many detonations...
 

thorr97

Banned
A failed state with numerous nuclear devices. The only question is how many detonations...

That could get... bloody.

As soon as the first warlord in the new Balkanized remnants of the PRC lights off a nuke in pursuit of his power ambitions the US and Russia are gonna have a helluva problem on their hands. Do they act preemptively to eliminate the rest of China's nuclear arsenal? This, even assuming they can find and take out all the nukes the Chinese acquired and distributed throughout their country. Or do they sit by and watch one mushroom cloud after another start blossoming all across the Middle Kingdom as the various warlords act to ensure they are the last ones standing?
 
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