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    Names for emperors in a post-Qing dynasty?

    POD: the Taiping armies somehow take Beijing and massacre the Emperor and most of his near relatives in 1861. After subduing the rebels, Zeng Guofan becomes Yiyong (1), the first emperor of the Yan Dynasty. (I know it's a fairly unlikely scenario, but roll with it.) What are some potential era...
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    Development of Vietnam in a world without the PRC?

    In brief, I’m starting to think more about East Asia in my In and Out of the Reich setting (Nazis conquer USSR and bring UK to the negotiating table, don’t ask how), specifically what the impact of thr Nationalists winning the Chinese Civil War will have on Vietnam. I haven’t gotten much farther...
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    Alternate outcomes to the 1925 German presidential election?

    I don't know much about Weimar politics, I admit, but it seems like 1925 is ripe with AH potential - what if the BVP backs the Zentrum's Wilhelm Marx instead of Hindenburg? What if the KPD's Thälmann drops out after the first round? (I guess either POD leads to the same result, doesn't it?) What...
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    USN vs Kriegsmarine 1950 - what would each navy have?

    Let’s wave our hands and say Nazi Victorious TL 59680 happens - the Germans (somehow) conquer the USSR to the Urals and (somehow) force the British to sign at least a temporary peace treaty. My question (inspired by this post...
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    AHC - An ROC aircraft carrier

    Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to have the Republic of China operate an aircraft carrier at some point between 1927 and 2021. My initial idea is that one of the handful of Japanese aircraft carriers that survived WW2 was transferred into Chinese service after the war. (Maybe...
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    Consequences of an ROC Hainan?

    Suppose that the Nationalists, by some stroke of luck and skill, are able to fend off the Communist assault on Hainan. Then Korea happens and the US becomes more active in the region again. What effects will having a second Nationalist stronghold off the coast have on China and East Asia in...
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    AHC Alternate outcomes to the fall of the Ming?

    First off, I admit I don't know all that much about the Ming-Qing transition beyond what I've read in a few general histories of China. But is there any way to have the fall of the Ming result in a different outcome - could the Shun Dynasty somehow survive? Is there any way for Wu Sangui to fend...
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    PC/AHC - a federal West German army

    I was wondering how plausible it is that when the West German army is formed, it's a federal instead of a unitary one - that is to say, each of the Lander has its own individual army? It's probably not very likely, but the idea popped into my head and won't go away. Maybe it could be sold as...
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    Higher Waffen-SS formations and ranks

    In OTL, there were Waffen-SS Armies and the highest rank was Oberst-Gruppenfuhrer. But what if the Reich somehow survived to the present day in your bog-standard Fatherland scenario? What would Waffen-SS Army Groups and SS Field Marshalls have been called?
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    What would a 1970s nuclear battleship look like?

    Yes, yes, an extremely big fat target for missiles and torpedoes. This is a Nazi AH thing and we know rational planning wasn’t their forte. So if the Fuhrer of the day decided the Kriegsmarine needed one, what would it look like? What caliber of main guns? How much AAA? Etc.
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    Place names in a Greater Tang China

    Hi all, I'm considering commissioning a map in an ATL where China (however implausible it is thanks to logistics and a changing balance of power in the region) manages to hold on to the frontier territories it conquered in the 7th century, as here: Some provincial and city names are rather...
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    Size of the Reichstag in a Maximum Reich scenario?

    In OTL 1938, the Reichstag had 813 seats (72 more than the last election, representing delegates from Austria and the Sudetenland). In a Maximum Reich scenario (Germany annexes Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, large parts of northern and eastern France, most of Switzerland, Denmark, Norway...
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    AHC - No Triple Intervention

    Is there any plausible path for Germany, France and Russia not to exert their influence and prevent Japan from annexing the Liaodong Peninsula? If so, what are the immediate consequences likely to be? (I can't imagine Japan retaining the territory to the present day, but how long might it have...
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    AHC - Belarus in NATO

    What magical contortions of history would it take to result in Belarus to be a member in good standing of NATO by 2020?
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    No Japanese invasion of China + no Pacific War - long-term fate of the colonies?

    Let's say that, somehow, Japan avoids being taken over by militarists and invades neither China nor the Western colonies. What happens in Korea and Taiwan and the South Seas? I can't see the Japanese holding onto Korea in the long term, not unless they actually let all Koreans have full...
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    AHC Latin Patriarch of Moscow

    Is there any plausible way for the Catholic Church to establish a patriarchate in Moscow instead of creating an early Russian Catholic Church of the Eastern Rite? Bonus points if it’s not a formality and non-entity in practical terms.
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    AHC Zeng Guofan founds a dynasty

    I've been reading a bit about the Taiping Rebellion and the Hunan Army lately, and a couple times, it's mentioned how Zeng was encouraged to overthrow the Qing after the Taiping were defeated. From what little I've read about the man, he was far too orthodox a Confucian to cast down the dynasty...
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    PC - Taiwanese declaration of independence in the 1970s?

    Is there any chance that, after the UN replaced the ROC with the PRC, that Taiwan would declare independence instead of continuing the notion it was the legitimate government of the mainland? I can't see it happening while Chiang Kai-shek is alive, but was there any possibility his successors...
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    AHC China keeps the far west

    Is there any plausible scenario where China maintains the western territories it held during the Tang dynasty? Or is it imperial overstretch that's bound to collapse eventually?
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    Development of Catholicism in a mainland ROC?

    How much could the Catholic faith have grown if the Nationalists won the Chinese Civil War? Obviously nothing within a light year of a plurality, but is 8-10% possible without Communist persecution?
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