Anything special with New Holland being the only place with two spellings shows?
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TNO: The End of a Unified China
STATUS REPORT July 21, 1982
It's over, Mr. President.
While what happened was unsurprising, It was still very interesting that Prime Minister Takagi would even consider this option of breaking China into several pieces.
We also heavily underestimated the sheer brutality that the National Protection Army would enact on their fellow countrymen. Most of China lies in ruins, with casualties never seen before since the Second World War.
It all started in 1974 in Yunnan when the late Long Yun would break free from his imprisonment and overthrow his cousin Lu Han. After establishing his control over Yunnan and the neighboring province of Guizhou, Long Yun led the National Protection Army in a rampage all across China, destroying anything and anyone that either stood in their way or refused to join them. There are also reports saying that several kuomintang guerillas in the area may have joined the N.P.A. during their conquest of China.
It is still unclear why Japan took this long to react to the N.P.A.'s rampage. Some reports hint at a possible dispute within their civil government, the military, and the Kempeitai. Whatever it was, Japan would finally wake up and notice the N.P.A. when they took Shanghai and their territory in Shandong in November 1976, with their puppet state of Mengjiang being invaded the following weeks after. Japan responded immediately with the deployment of most of the I.J.A. and I.J.N. all over their sphere into China in both, reportedly, in an attempt to both prevent their loss of China and to stop the N.P.A.'s trail of destruction all over the Mainland. In response, Long Yun attempted to call on Japan's most rebellious client states in Asia, but after hearing of the destruction and brutality not one answered his call. There were initially several plans drawn up on how exactly the OFN is going to intervene on behalf of China, but again the news of the N.P.A.'s brutality swung the Public's opinion against supporting them, to our surprise actually.
The War itself was basically an even bigger bloodbath for both sides. The N.P.A.'s own tactics of slash-and-burn only proved to disadvantage them as they now lack the infrastructures and supplies to withstand a full offensive from the Japanese and their allies. Several factions within their own territory also started rebelling against them, with the Uyghurs in Xinjiang and the Tibetans being the most active against them. By 1978 Mengjiang and most of Northern China were reconquered by the Japanese, but the N.P.A. resisted down south, with Nanjing being once again a city of death as the two sides threw whatever they can at each other.
The city would fall after a year of destruction, forcing the N.P.A. to retreat back to Yunnan, where Long Yun was promptly killed by his own lieutenants in 1980. The province would fall the following year as the N.P.A. splintered into several guerilla groups that continued on fighting the Japanese until now, but despite that Japan would consider the "Western Insurrection" to be over by this year, with the Shanghai Declaration being enacted a few days ago in July 16, permanently breaking China into several pieces as a way to, reportedly, govern more efficiently and to help ease the reconstruction in each territory.
In conclusion, while it was a good idea not to intervene, this disaster could've been prevented, or at least limited to a certain scale. It also brought into light that the Japanese Military are still as brutal as ever, but after this war Japan as a whole was severely weakened economy-wise and military-wise. This could brought about more conflicts all over Asia as several rebel groups could use this opportunity to finally break free from Japan's rule, like what the rest of Maritime Southeast Asia did in the early 1970s with the revolts of Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
Signed.
Andrew Anderson
Office of East Asian Affairs.
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I'm aware that I was using old lore prior to TT for this one, also a whole lot of speculation as GAW isn't really fully implemented yet.
I'm also aware that I made several mistakes on China's provincial and municipal borders as most are the present day borders, but just pretend that it isn't lmao.
The Gallic Empire
Created for the Map Telephone game 10th edition: see here https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/telephone-map-game-10th-edition.511741/
Created for the Map Telephone game 10th edition: see here https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/telephone-map-game-10th-edition.511741/
It's nothing special, really. It's just that New Holland has a shitload of Frisians in it, and I wanted to add the Frisian pronunciation too. Could've added it for South Africa as well, but it didn't differ that much from Dutch (other than Zuid becoming Zœyt).
In this world, an Indo-European group related to the Tocharians kept moving east and settled in OTL China, establishing new states and empires. Based on Prince di Corsica's "The Land of Pyramids and Redheads". First map in the Telephone Map Game: 10th Edition.
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I had the second map for the Telephone Map Game: 10th Edition, and decided to expand on the history of Sodavanism:
been meaning to post something here for a while, but couldn't find anything that might actually be worth people's time other than this graphic/info bit for a future-history USS election. i am by no means an expert on political trajectory or anything i just tried making something that would fit into the broader context of something unfinished
edit: had to fix one of the subdivisions
edit: had to fix one of the subdivisions
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Kept moving East, I think you mean? When does this TL diverge from OTL, or do map telephone games keep that sort of thing really loosey-goosey?
The New Order, an alternate history mod where the Axis 'won' in Europe and East Asia but are now decaying faced off by the OFN - US and Allies
My entry for the 10th Telephone Map Game! I'll admit that this was rushed, but I'm still okay with it myself.
Very loosey-goosey. Here's my map, which has nothing to do with the original map. By the time my map came up, the "camera" had shifted to the Atlantic Coast of Europe, so I figured I'd do a map on a post-colonial situation.
We never called the British Empire the Britse Keizerrijk.
IOW, unless there's an actual emperor (keizer), the Dutch word keizerrijk is an incorrect translation of the English word empire.
It should just be Rijk.
Same is true for German, BTW.
Roman Empire -> Römisches Reich.
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