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Points of Divergence : China
Points of divergence concerning alternate historical developments within the modern day territory of China.
China is a large populous country in Eastern Asia. It, as we all know, invented pretty much everything, and possibly is one of the oldest civilizations on earth. It has been through pretty much every political situation known to man in its long and rich history, and so of course provides many potential PODS. Below are some examples of discussion about China:
Prehistory
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Antiquity
Discussion on China being Jewish
Discussion on Roman involvement in China
Discussion on Alexander the Great taking China during his conquests
Challenge: Nomadic Chinese tribe
Challenge: Prevent Chinese unification in 221 BC
Challenge: Save the Late Han Dynasty
Challenge: The Chinese Envoy reaches Rome in 97 AD
Better Technology exchange between China and Europe
China without foreign dynasties
Challenge: Preserve Tang borders
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Medieval to Colonial Era PODs
Plausibility check: Holy Roman Empire style China
Discussion on China's potential as a colonial power
Discussion on China being conquered and converted by Islam in the 800s
Discussion on the Japanese taking some or all of China during the Manchu conquests
The Ming continues maritime expansion
The Chinese Fleet of the Ming Dynasty
Plausibility check: Could the Japanese conquer China in the 1600s ?
Plausibility check: Chinese colonization of Siberia ?
Non-Mongol-led Chinese or Korean conquest of Japan ?
Why did the Chinease not expand and create a colonial empire ?
Challenge: Make Qing China fall earlier with civil war
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Pre-Modern and Victorian PODs
China pulling a Meiji (reforming)
China getting carved up by the European powers
Evolution of a distinct Cantonese culture in Southern China (more so than OTL)
No Dowager Cixi, China westernizes
WI: The Taiping Rebellion is ended circa 1862-1863
WI the New Territories (Hong Kong, etc.) in China were ceded permanently to Britain ?
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Republic of China and World War II PODs
Discussion on China balkanizing in the twentieth century
China in the Central Powers in WWI
Challenge: Greater Tibet with a 20th century POD
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Communist China PODs
Plausibility check/Challenge: Manchurian SSR
WI: Anti-Soviet PRC from the very beginning or an earlier Sino-Soviet split ?
No Chinese intervention in the Korean War
WI: China never implements the One-Child policy
Plausibility check: Sino-North Korean War in 1968
Full-scale war between the Soviet Union and China in '69
Plausibility check: Hong Kong's New Territories ceded in perpetuity (and the repercussions)
WI: Chinese Men to Space... by the 1970s
Challenge: Chinese to the Moon in the 1970s/1980s
Plausibility check: A democratic China in the 21st century ?
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Miscellaneous
Challenge: Make a Chinese dynasty that lasts over thousand years
An independent Manchuria space programme ?
PODs woth best possible outcomes for the Chinese
Challenge: Bigger/Superpower China
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ASB / ISOT / Geological
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