DBWI: U.S. attitudes on Russia and China flipped

samcster94

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China and Russia are both clearly not democratic countries, albeit Russia flirted with it once and their current leader(OOC:he is clearly authoritarian, but he isn't like Putin as he is uncharismatic and is planning on leaving office after his next term for a handpicked successor) might not be around much longer.
Russia is hardly beloved by Americans and its human rights in Chechnya have been called out on, but China is far worse(especially involving its illegal occupation of the Senkaku islands, and to an extent, its rampant homophobia). China also intervened in an election recently, which ultimately failed, but the damage was done and the Democratic candidate(OOC: this is a white guy, but has many of Hillary's other issues{and seems more like a 90's Blue Dog policy wise unlike Hillary} and faced a woman trying to pull a "Sanders") barely won(and his administration is rather damaged even if his hardline{OOC:he is not like Trump} opponent got money from China).
With a POD of 1991, what can be done to reverse the relations of America between China and Russia to make relations with China lukewarm and Russia hated.
 
Good luck, that's all I can say on that.

The problems lies in economic & geo-political issues and racism.

-Economically: post USSR Russia is of limited relevance on the world stage barring its nukes, with limited soft/economic power and limited military capability to influence far away. Meanwhile the PRC is clearly an economic competitor/threat and is rapidly acquiring military capabilities to intervene far away from its regional interests (even though Conway's all the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995 say that coming even back in the 90s). The US has a long history in rooting for the underdogs, and presently Russia is the underdog vis a vis the Chinese.
-Racism: let's be honest here, because the weird way US racial politics/theories work Russia is still more 'familiar' than the PRC, given the former is white while the latter is Asian. It's gonna be a huge hurdle to overcome that.

Maybe a POD where the Russian economy does a far better job in transition from communism to capitalism, which would have a knockdown effect of making their military much more potent and their appetite for foreign intervention much greater for a start.
 
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