I'm going through a survey of modern Chinese military history and just hit the Korean War chapter, which makes me wonder - could the Korean War have escalated into WW3, or at least Pacific War 2.0?
The former seems more likely - how can you get a PRC-USA war at the time without Soviet intervention? - but the latter has a novelty factor (to me) that I like. Any way to bring that about? Can we get Stalin to blink somehow?
The former seems more likely - how can you get a PRC-USA war at the time without Soviet intervention? - but the latter has a novelty factor (to me) that I like. Any way to bring that about? Can we get Stalin to blink somehow?