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Ripping off the China as a member of the Axis thread. A World war 1 timeline.

i.e. Germany doesn't do the 1897 shake down of Shantung but supports the Chinese government on a free trade policy. Boxer rebellion doesn't happen. China is stronger and sympathetic to Germany as a friend against the various powers trying to dominate her.

China feels that if Germany is defeated that she would be a the mercy of the various other powers and her country split and annexed.

In May 1916 the entire Hentig Niedenmyer mission, knowing Chinese sympathy, leaves Afghanistan for China (OTL only Hentig went to China)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niedermayer-Hentig_Expedition

This mission stays in western China with the sympathy of the Chinese government uses this area as a base and attempts to cause mayhem in the southern Muslim regions of Russia which is currently revolting. With the assistance of the mission these revolts are more successfull than OTL.

Russian forces raid into China to try end end this Hentig problem once and for all. China declares war on November 14th, Britain, France and Japan all declare war on China on November 15th 1916....

What happens next?
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