The Great Leap Into Hell: WI China went North-Korean way?

Greisen

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Suppose Mao lives longer, or purged his party better, and nothing changed after his death. Suppose there is no such thing as "Chinese Miracle".

How would the world look like? Would China ever survive as a single state? What country could replace it as a "miracle"? Or would we have products of better quality, but higher costs, due to lack of cheap chinese products?
 
Suppose Mao lives longer, or purged his party better, and nothing changed after his death. Suppose there is no such thing as "Chinese Miracle".

How would the world look like? Would China ever survive as a single state? What country could replace it as a "miracle"? Or would we have products of better quality, but higher costs, due to lack of cheap chinese products?

Greisen

If you get his wife and the so called gang of 4 gaining control then you might get something like this. If so I would expect either violent change sooner or later or the collapse of China into chaos. Given how much N Korea depends on aid from the rest of the world a comparable China would be unsupportable. Also there would be the danger that the government, facing growing unrest, tries a foreign adventure. Something against Taiwan would probably be fairly easy to handle as the Chinese navy and air force in this time period wouldn't be too great a peril. However a clash with Russia could get very messy.

Steve
 
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