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In the novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, there were mentions of an independent Manchuria that has its own space program. Which got me thinking: with a post-1900 POD, how do we get an independent, no-one's-puppet Manchuria powerful enough to afford a space program?
BTW I haven't actually read the book. I only saw that passage about their space program on Wiki.