I couldn't stop myself to wonder how the tendency in writing US post World War timelines is usually going towards China being screwed. I just wish to inquire more in detail why.
Events like Korean war, ideology/border war with the USSR, Vietnam wars and cultural revolution are sufficient reasons to send on tilt China if just one of them went bad for Beijing? Or eventually, China on the eyes of you is so really vulnerable respect to the Soviet Union? (which makes me wonder also how here Soviet screw TLs post WW2 are rare)
Or generally, whenever the US are going on those scenaries (better ATL presidencies to internal distopian scenaries) is usually considered as counterweight a Chinese collapse or crisis? Is because without the Mao-Nixon agreements or the defeat of the far-left wing in the cultural revolution, the general opinion is China wouldn't fare better or stay in a certaib stability without those or other events?