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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
What happened to the rest of the world?
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Alright, I'll try this broader bit. Let's say my aim is to make the rest of the world also a mess. China and the U.S. never thawed out, Nixon could not go to China and this is a major contributing factor in the U.S. longterm downturn - But China also doesn't do great. There's enough of a reconciliation between the Sino-Soviets, but ultimately it still fractures. The Soviet Union crumbles more or less on time, plunging Russia into the same terrible post-soviet depression. It's Icarus present is a kleptocratic oligarchy. China's catch-up phase lags and then falters under the burden of the one-child policy and the collapse of the Soviet Union, and now China is facing environmental devastation and an aging population while being governed by an increasingly desperate and authoritarian Communist Party.
The European Union is knit very closely together as a shield against the dark fates of much of the rest of the world, including militarily, but the central countries continue to impose austerity onto its periphery, causing frustrating. On the other hand, it still functions. Latin America was not a beneficiary of erratic American foreign policy after the sixties and is a patchwork of authoritarian and democratic states. Africa remains underdeveloped. Southeast Asia, particularly India, was a beneficiary of the more chilly relationship between the U.S. and China, but it achieved lift substantially later than Homeline's China did.