I would like to hear your opinion on what will happen with the colonization of Africa and Asia. Who will be the players in the new world etc.
The colonization of africa and asia has few participants.
We have Holland, which lost its most valuable colony. It has only the Cape Colony and a war-torn nation. In my opinion they can perhaps keep the colony in Africa. But other than that they are bankrupt in the long run, being used by the French to generate resources and basically that.
Spain has Latin America (for now), and the Philippines. There's the problem of the king and heirs not having a brain. It's kind of a france vassal (on the edge of france which is pretty bad). It is a nation from a bygone century and the elite seem interested in staying in that century. I don't see a great future for Spain. Maybe morocco as colony?
Keeping cuba or the philippines would be possible too
The UK is doing well and at the same time it is bad. It has a good part of india and the east indies, colonies in the new world, the largest navy. A good economy. It will likely be the coalition leader which has its problems and benefits. Overall the future is positive. But it lost to france and it will have to maintain a good part of its energy trying to contain france, which prevents or slows down its expansion. Which creates opportunities for others.
Portugal. We have to split it in two.
The Kingdom of portugal is a bankrupt kingdom ruled by a french nobility. No colonies, with a hostile population that is probably immigrating en masse to Brazil. to be honest, this portugal is screwed, there's no other way to say it. Zero future. Maybe if france beats spain, Portugal will win something, like Galicia.
The United Kingdom of Portugal and Brazil. It has all the colonies of the Portuguese empire, the Chinese commercial monopoly, the Portuguese navy and army in the new world (which is kind of op against the nations of south america). Probably hates half of Europe. In the list we have france, spain, hollanda, the kingdom of portugal, uk (at least in part for not being able to protect the metropolis). Have to turn Brazil into a metropolis. Which will generate a renewal in the slave trade (seriously, it will be a big boost, to the point that the USA may not be able to buy many slaves. Brazil eats slaves and spits out corpses as if they were nothing). Can expand in the southern cone (to control the western core of south america), ]Africa (conquering cape and having almost a third of africa under portuguese domain) and in asia (with brunei and other colonies. an increase in trade with China maybe).
Russia. There's nothing to talk about. It is strong and its neighbors are weak. It will expand until It can't do it anymore. The russia of this time line will be bigger, much stronger and dangerous
I forgot someone, or any idea of some other country that can participate in the colonization?