Napoleonrules
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It's fine you consider Siberia to be Central Asia, however most geographers don't. Literally all of Russia east of Urals geographically is also called "North Asia". You're forgetting we also have a South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) and South East Asia (Thailand, Burma, Vietname, Indonesia, Philippines, etc).I think you'll find that people's lives intersect, and that 'lines of causality' are not somehow magically separate from one another. In other words: changes accumulate hyperbolically. Not that it matters that much to me: if you want to have the PRC in a scenario with an 1580 POD, go for it. It just won't be happening in any world I envision. And as I said, I'm assuming a scenario where Russia never makes it past the Urals, so that should provide enough evident causal changes even for your liking.
On that note...
I imagine a middle must have a north. If we have a Western Asia, and an East Asia, and if the Russian Far East is considered part of East Asia, being the Far East and all...then surely the bit between Western Russia and the Russian Far East must belong to Central Asia?
Eh, it makes sense to me.![]()