Worldbuilding-Adventure Friendly Cold War/Alternate Earth

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by johndallman

You're going to need a pretty radical historical change to make China organised enough to take over even a mostly-defeated Japan. Deleting the Chinese Communists would only be a start: you'd need more to make it plausible.
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You'd need to do something like give Sun Yat Sen a cast of Founding Fathers rather than just some devoted admirers.

Somebody needs to succeed him and somebody else needs to succeed the second guy and muiltiple somebodys need to create viable political parties to absorb the political energies of the country and invest them in stable government and peaceful changes of government.