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  • Apologies 1 - I'm sure this has been covered before, a link to the best thread on subject would be a good answer
  • Apologies 2 - This isn't my era or region

Britain and Japan, both islands off the coast of large landmasses.

Britain endlessly interferes with European politics to ensure that no European force comes to dominate the continent and power is decentralised. Europe is constantly at war for 1000 years but becomes the scientific and technological leader of the planet.

Japan retreats into itself and allows a series Imperial dynasties to rule China as a whole. China is not endlessly peaceful but does have a large overall national identity.

I have an idea why this happened - the Mongols - could this have turned out differently?
Perhaps the Mongols go West, and their invasion of Japan in OTL becomes the invasion of Britian, with similar results. In the West an insular Britain off the coast of a backwards German (Mongol originated) Empire
and in the East a liberal, acquisitive forward looking Japanese state which interferes with the independent states of China, and begins to colonise the New World the way Britain did?

Could we reach the 20thC with a mirror image set of World Wars originated by the states in the East over their colonies in the West?
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