Points of Divergence : Taiwan

A majority aboriginal Taiwan (1)

A majority aboriginal Taiwan (2)

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A majority aboriginal Taiwan (1)

A majority aboriginal Taiwan (2)

Native populations on Taiwan forming their own nations

WI: A Buddhist or Hindu Taiwan

Challenge: A culturally different Taiwan, distinct early on from China

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WI: A Buddhist or Hindu Taiwan

Islam reaches Taiwan (1)

Islam reaches Taiwan (2)

If Taiwan became Muslim

Would an Islamic Taiwan affect Japan ?

What would happen to Taiwan without the Mongol invasion of Song ?

Plausibility check: Taiwan becoming an overseas possession of the Ryukyu Kingdom ?

A "Filipino" conquest of Taiwan in the 15th century

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Plausibility check: Taiwan becoming an overseas possession of the Ryukyu Kingdom ?

WI Japanese try to colonize Formosa in 1594, earlier end to Imjin War

Early Japanese colonization of Taiwan ?

Shun Dynasty's possible policy on Taiwan

Plausibility check: European-colonised Taiwan

Plausibility check: Taiwan becomes a European settler colony

WI Europeans discover jade in Taiwan

WI: Japanese Christians flee to Taiwan

WI the Netherlands keep Taiwan

WI the Dutch colonize Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Indonesia

Plausibility check: Spanish Taiwan ? (1)

Plausibility check: Spanish Taiwan ? (2)

Effects of a Spanish Taiwan

WI: Spanish portion of Taiwan stays Spanish until 1899

Plausibility check: No invasion by Koxinga - does Taiwan stay Dutch ?

Plausibility check: The Dutch retaking Taiwan after Koxinga's death ?

WI Koxinga survives malaria and leads his fleets ?

Koxinga invades Spanish Manila instead of Dutch Taiwan

WI the Qing do not hold Taiwan ?

Ming Taiwan and Qing China ?

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Plausibility check: European-colonised Taiwan

Plausibility check: Taiwan as a mostly European-settled "Argentina of the East"

Early 1800s WI: Will the Qing hold on to Taiwan in case of a European invasion ?

The Qing, trade & Taiwan

WI Britain seized Taiwan in Opium War I or II ?

Plausibility check: British Taiwan/Formosa

Plausibility check: Russian Taiwan ?

Challenge: France annexes Taiwan and the Pescadores in the Sino-French War

Plausibility check: French seizure of the Ryukyuan Islands, Taiwan and Hainan by the 1850s

WI America purchases Taiwan from Qing China ?

US Taiwan since the 19th century (1)

US Taiwan since the 19th century (2)

US Taiwan since the 19th century (3)

US Taiwan since the 19th century (4)

American Hainan and Taiwan

American trade interest in Taiwan

Challenge: German Taiwan

China ceding Taiwan to Germany

European powers supporting the Democratic Republic of Taiwan against Japanese expansionism in the 1890s

WI the Japanese sold Taiwan to France in 1897

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Challenge: Make Taiwan a US state by 1914

Chinese Civil War PODs

Challenge: Independent Taiwan with a Nationalist Victory in the Chinese Civil War

Challenge: Make Taiwan stronger during the 20th century

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WI: No Taiwan

Landlocked Nations, Navies, and Islands ISOT to Waterworld

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