WI: Surviving Western Liao/Qara Khitai khanate

The Khanate of Qara Khitai is notable for being perhaps the most sinicized of the turkic khanates, going so far as to utilize the chinese calendar, a chinese-inspired writing system, chinese royal titles, and chinese-style coins.
However, the Liao-derived khanate was a bit short-lived, de facto collapsing due to an invasion from the naiman tribe.
But what if the Qara Khitai had survived this invasion and its decline?
What would be the effects of continuing sinic influence on Central Asia?
If Genghis Khan's expansion is not butterflied, how will the Qara Khitai deal with him?
 
However, the Liao-derived khanate was a bit short-lived, de facto collapsing due to an invasion from the naiman tribe.
But what if the Qara Khitai had survived this invasion and its decline?
What would be the effects of continuing sinic influence on Central Asia?
If Genghis Khan's expansion is not butterflied, how will the Qara Khitai deal with him?
Well, first of all Qara Khitai entity was not too short-lived, that was a standard life-expectancy for a khanate.

But if it had survived longer there wouldn't have been more "sinic influence" on the Central Asia, I guess.
Because there was not too much of 'sinic influence' in OTL.

While dealing with their sedentary subjects, the only thing the Qara Chitai emperors were concerned was them paying tribute, they didn't touch the local power structures, Muslim institutions; the local dynasts continued issuing their own coins, mostly without any mention of belonging to Qara Chitai empire.
Funny thing - when Muslim travellers described the Muslim towns under the Qara Chitay power, they tell the readers about the splendor of the local Muslim rulers; and they sometimes don't mention the Qara Chitay at all; so the power of the Empire seems to be almost "invisible" in some cases.
Only before the fall the Qara Chitay Empire had some problems with Muslim riots (probably because of increased taxation).

As for their nomadic (mostly Turkic) subjects, the Qara Chitay styled themselves as a traditional Khanate, without too much of any serious cinicization effort to speak about.

So proud of their cultural "Chinese" superiority, the Qara Chitay were not too eager to cinisize their subjects.
 
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