Yeah, that TL works until the actual war starts... at which point it falls apart almost instantly.
Endless Summer? Haven't heard of that one.
Yeah, the Ussuri River War is really quite bad. The author has China opening up a war with so many fronts you can't even count them (Ussuri River, Mongolia, North Korea, Vietnam, Pakistan, India, Australia...) and then turns Mao into a weird expy of Hitler in the bunker. Strategy? Tactics? You can't tell in the choppy, one-event-per-day style of othertimelines.com.That timeline, which I only saw for the first time yesterday, is, IMO, awful, even dreadful.
Really lousy research, utterly impossible events (Canada dispatches 60,000 troops TWO DAYSafter declaring war, from a standing start, the UK send 50,000 Royal Marines in a single event when I am pretty sure that the Royal Marines never even mustered 50,000 men), casualty figures that are obviouslly pulled out of a dark body orifice, a through, rather depressing, lack of understanding of strategic theory, tactical planning, and logistical possibility, and departures from logic and common sense that are frankly incredible. It is exactly the sort of drivel that causes people to roll their eyes at the mention of Alternate History. Worst of all, it isn't even entertaining.
If it is a masterpiece, I have at least two works (Endless Summer & A/A-NW) posted here that deserve Nobel Prizes for Literature, with a third (PWR) in progress.
Back in the days of a much smaller Board (all the way back in 2007):
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=55116