loughery111
Banned
taiwan actually had such a program OTL 1990s....http://www.missilethreat.com/missilesoftheworld/id.170/missile_detail.asp
I guess it's apt... it fulfills the same role as a horse. But why not the Tian Xiongmao?
taiwan actually had such a program OTL 1990s....http://www.missilethreat.com/missilesoftheworld/id.170/missile_detail.asp
Taking all of this together, there is only one ally which Taiwan can look to, and that is ROK. Now, given Parks disdain for Chiang, things might be rough, but I find it possible for a working relation to be formed with bombs being made by 1975.
I guess it's apt... it fulfills the same role as a horse. But why not the Tian Xiongmao?Or, seriously speaking, just to mock the mainland, the Hexie Shehui-Class IRBM.
but seriously, that is unnecessary aggravation!!!!
but I doubt china would invade over a missile name...hahahahaha
More like the 让你的社会很和谐-class IRBM, but that's a bit of a mouthful.
okay, but seriously, what would the butterflies be?
with both nuclear armed south korea and taiwan.....
with both nuclear armed south korea and taiwan.....
Assuming we have the nuclear test in 1975~6 (with only Taiwan declaring itself as a power, since ROK was negotiating some nuclear technology transfer), we'll be seeing Mao right before this death looking at what would seem to him to be a conspiracy by the US of invading PRC. Since he is probably going to die around the time he did in OTL, we might have Deng be shut out from power as the hardliners gain power using fear of ROC as a weapon. Basically, the market liberalization might be pushed back decades or perhaps indefinitely, turning the PRC into something akin to Burma.
This wouldn't be a pretty world. Leaving out PRC, the USSR is probably going to be more aggressive towards the ROK/ROC alliances, while the US would most likely be angry with both of its East Asian leaders.
I once read a technothriller where the premise was that the Taiwanese had started a secret nuclear research facility on Kerguelen in order to obtain a nuclear deterrent (this was written in the 90s and set in something like 2002...those books quickly ended up unintentional AH due to the lack of 9/11).
Does Deng Xiaoping shifting to become more politically hardline butterfly his domestic socio-economic stance - that stance which led China to open up? I have the impression (not backed up with research yet, mind) that he adopted a nonconfrontational foreign policy.
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China doesn't quite work that way, especially with so little time (in 1975 Mao only has one year left) for the post-Mao situation to be changed. The thing is that by that time, all across China everybody knew that more Maoist policies would endanger not only the populace but also the continuing authority of the party itself. It was imperative to enact some sort of reform after Mao's death, and by 1975 it was clear he was near it.problem is the hardliners who are bound to crop up over Taiwan's nuke.period.
China doesn't quite work that way, especially with so little time (in 1975 Mao only has one year left) for the post-Mao situation to be changed. The thing is that by that time, all across China everybody knew that more Maoist policies would endanger not only the populace but also the continuing authority of the party itself. It was imperative to enact some sort of reform after Mao's death, and by 1975 it was clear he was near it.
I once read a technothriller where the premise was that the Taiwanese had started a secret nuclear research facility on Kerguelen in order to obtain a nuclear deterrent (this was written in the 90s and set in something like 2002...those books quickly ended up unintentional AH due to the lack of 9/11).