Challenge: European colonialism alive into the year 2000

PoD being really any time after the Napoleonic wars. How do you keep the Europeans in Africa and Asia until the year 2000, bonus points for still being in China.
 
It might be a good idea to prevent WWI from happening in my opinion. A lot of resources were wasted on that, which could be put to work on the colonies. If you can avoid that it can work, or at least put it off for awhile.

Also, are airships involved?
 
Well, it would really need the prevention of any 'survining' non-european nations attaining modern technology. Also, preferably the US should be gone. Then it might last until 2000, however unlikely.
 
Definitely has to be some PoD prior to 1914, methinks; certainly has to be something that avoids WW1, so that the European powers don't commit mutual suicide by falling on each others' swords. That's the first consideration.

The second guess would be a PoD assuming that the empires were established along different lines, or for different reasons. Most overseas colonies were established, IMPO, purely for the purposes of exploitation of local resources, using the local people as the labour-force, to give the home economy of the colonial power cheap raw material for the use of its own labour force. A purely exploitative empire will not stand, no matter where or when it exists.
 

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If you squint and turn your head a little to the right, the British Commonwealth could be seen as a form of colonialism.
 
Yeah, just prevent both World Wars and have a decline of nationalism/jingoism of European states (well, atleast to each other) and that should prolong the Empires of Western Europe.
 
If you squint and turn your head a little to the right, the British Commonwealth could be seen as a form of colonialism.

You knw, I always poo poo the idea of surviving empires, but I wonder if you could have more states with a stronger informal empire, more like France's current one. Hrmm.
 
PoD being really any time after the Napoleonic wars. How do you keep the Europeans in Africa and Asia until the year 2000, bonus points for still being in China.

Well, it's not that hard. Delay the return of Macao to China for just a few days (12 days, exactly) and you'd have colonialism in the year 2000 :p

Anyway, I thing some form of direct European colionialism survives to this day. I'm thinking mainly in French Polynesia, but there are other cases. I mean, France set of nuclear bombs in the islands 15 years ago, something which I'm sure the "natives" didn't approve.

The situation of French Polynesia might be considered a form of colonialism, although one mantained more through means of persuasion (i.e. money: subsides, public emplowements, etc.) than by force. But "colonialism" also worked like that in the old days. I mean, the Europeans weren't constatnly fighting Africans in the 1930ies or 1940ies, but tried to coopt the elits and convince them than what they were doing was also good for them. Something the European colonizers might have even believed themselves.

Of course, if you want a survival of colonialism in a large scale, other Pods are needed. Avoiding WW1 is the best, as other have said.
 
The second guess would be a PoD assuming that the empires were established along different lines, or for different reasons. Most overseas colonies were established, IMPO, purely for the purposes of exploitation of local resources, using the local people as the labour-force, to give the home economy of the colonial power cheap raw material for the use of its own labour force. A purely exploitative empire will not stand, no matter where or when it exists.

Weren't the ones in Africa mainly there so the nations looked more important on a map?
 
In a no WWI TL with the 1st Globalisation continued, you could well see containerisation earlier, and thus offshoring heavy industry earlier. You could see very interesting impacts on the post-industrial economies of Western Europe if they retain political dominance of the areas industry still occurs.
 
You have to keep racism in Europe alive. If Africans were still considered to be inferior up to the 50's/60's, then this might be a good reason to keep on with colonialism. On one hand, to "civilize" the native Africans, on the other hand to increase the numbers of white citizens in Africa.
 
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