General Mung Beans
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How can America take control of the islands of Hainan and Taiwan? What would be its effects if those islands were states?
How can America take control of the islands of Hainan and Taiwan? What would be its effects if those islands were states?
And how does Spain get Taiwan in the first place? That requires a POD in the 17th century at least. In OTL Taiwan was under Dutch domination when the Ming loyalists took it over in 1662, and from that point on until 1895 the only other serious Western attempt to claim it was by France in 1885.America gets Spanish Taiwan during the Spanish/American war in 1898.
As Spain held Taiwan in 1895, Japan took Hainan instead.