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Points of Divergence : Taiwan
Prehistory
A majority aboriginal Taiwan (1)
A majority aboriginal Taiwan (2)
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Antiquity
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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The Middle Ages
WI: A Buddhist or Hindu Taiwan
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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Early Modern history
Plausibility check: Taiwan becoming an overseas possession of the Ryukyu Kingdom ?
WI Japanese try to colonize Formosa in 1594, earlier end to Imjin War
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)
WI: Spanish portion of Taiwan stays Spanish until 1899
Plausibility check: No invasion by Koxinga - does Taiwan stay Dutch ?
WI Koxinga survives malaria and leads his fleets ?
Koxinga invades Spanish Manila instead of Dutch Taiwan
WI the Qing do not hold Taiwan ?
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18th and 19th century
Plausibility check: European-colonised Taiwan
Early 1800s WI: Will the Qing hold on to Taiwan in case of a European invasion ?
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 trade interest in Taiwan
China ceding Taiwan to Germany
WI the Japanese sold Taiwan to France in 1897
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20th century
Challenge: Make Taiwan a US state by 1914
Challenge: Independent Taiwan with a Nationalist Victory in the Chinese Civil War
Challenge: Make Taiwan stronger during the 20th century
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ASB / ISOT / Geological
Landlocked Nations, Navies, and Islands ISOT to Waterworld
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