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There are plenty of threads on what happens without world wars but none of them seem to touch the elephant in the room that is East Asia.

Here are a few ideas for PODs you could develop or explore further:
  1. Russia wins the Russo-Japanese war and thus Korea stays independent. Does this discourage Japan from being an imperial power or does it encourage them even more to seek other colonies
  2. Make Japan less imperialistic and militaristic and content with taking only Korea+Taiwan and maybe Manchuria without trying to invade all of China
  3. If Japan invades China make their goals more limited, without them trying to occupy the entire country and without Japan trying to make what's left of China it's exclusive economic zone
  4. If there is war between China and Japan make it end in a white peace with neither side losing or gaining anything, but make the widespread destruction caused by modern war seen worldwide so that anti-war sentiment becomes widespread. (thought I admit Japan giving up without being totally defeated is kinda ASB)
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