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Robeatnix — Partition of China 2030 (Alt-His)
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Introduction
After the Third World War came to a close, the world had been born anew. The supposed truths held evident before were now dispelled by the hammer of reality, the courtesy of those proclaimed bastions of progress and civility consumed by the fire of war and the fleeting innocence of those aging civilizations stained forever by the blood of millions soiling the irradiated Earth beneath them. This last war, whose ferocity noone had been able to even concieve of just years prior, was in no way a honorable test of strength between competing world powers but escalated to nothing less then a fully automated butchery of the innocent. The pervasive climate of treachery and atrocity in this war had turned even the most dignified men into unflinching executors of misery and executioners of entire nations, desiring nothing less than the complete annihilation of the enemy.
This war also decided the fate of Western Civilization, with the two faces of the Occident, the face of money, of liberalism and of progressivism clashing with the face of order, authority and traditionalism; each of them consumed with desdain for the other and with the drive for extermination in their hearts. The revolutions of the 1950s and 60s had changed the outlook of our combatants significantly, with the youth of post-war Europe seeing the golem of modernity and technology carve its way into the traditional fabric of society, consuming any kind of greater meaning or purpose and supplanting it with nothing but hedonism and consumerism. The Revolution against this decay, seen as maybe the last chance to remedy society from its impending degeneration, suddenly halted the seemingly inevitable progress towards greater democratization and liberalization and erected in its place a new testament for Europe's desire to turn her back against the modern world and return to a state of civilization long gone past. In the reinvigorated United States on the other side, which had already been estranged from the continent before the Second World War, the view across the ocean horrified them and made them insist ever more on the qualities, which seperated them from the old world. „Plus ultra“ - further beyond, became the implicit motto of the new United States, leaving behind all conceptions, seen as backwards and European in the minds of the American Liberal Revolution. Hierarchy, commitment the reliance on the wisdom of the elders was replaced by equality between all societal groups, liberalizations in all social fields and the constant desire to rid oneself from the miserable state of current society to escape towards the utopia awaiting.
Backstory
1940s – 1970s
And inbetween these ideological arch-nemeses was China. Once an ally of Germany and the Europeans, it soon grew to be increasingly closer with their worst enemy. Originally friendly with Germany, as Germany rescued their collapsing military resistance against the Japanese and provided them with much needed investment in the 50s and 60s, with many European firms looking for a stake in the emerging East Asian economy, this relationship quickly turned from amicable to neutral to strained to hostile. German and other European firms were already complaining about horrendous levels of corruption, plaguerism and copyright infringements as well as constant issues with products not meeting quality standards and the manufacturers trying to disguise it. This put a damp on market confidence in the 70s and led the firms to divert their investments into the more functional outer territories, controlled by Germany (Schantung and the Far-East Protectorate (later the East Asian Federation (EAF)) as well as the now friendly countries of Korea and Japan (which were integrated into Germany's economic and security confederation after WW2). The government also continued to put increasingly more pressure on the aging Chiang Kai-Shek to curb these issues and push the country into accepting the help of European advisors to aid in that endevour.
1970s – 1990s
After his death, a year long power struggle ensued, pitting the relatively passive pro-German Chiang-faction against the anti-German Lin-faction, which wanted to rid themselves of German domination, both internally and in regards to regional geopolitics. It however also wanted to clean up the image of China as a backward impoverished country to encourage more financial investment from abroad via massive infrastructure investments and the sanitation of China's terrible business image. China therefore made considerable efforts to woo the US into investing heavily, praising them as the „good foreigners“ in contrast to the „evil imperialists“ in Europe and made them profitable offers to lure them in, now, that this grand restructuring took place and the Europeans failed to capitalize. Following this government change and in response to aggressive rhetoric from Beijing concerning the Outer Provinces and the German administration, the Imperial government issued a ban for German (and by extension also European) companies to branch out into China and placed more restrictions and control mechanisms on investments. The relations between Europe and China continued to be marked by several ups and downs with many of the restrictions placed on China in 1978 being repealed and reapplied as Beijing continued to jibe at their neighbors over territorial matters. Business with the Europeans suffered as many firms didn't want to deal with the constant uncertainty. FDI stagnated in this period and barely any new factories were set up by the European firms, while US-investments skyrocketed as many American firms simply ignored the experiences and warnings from the European competitors and only saw the profitable business climate with the enormous capable work force and massive market China provided. This continued to the point, that China became the largest trading partner of the US in the mid-1990s. German firms started to branch out further in search for more politically viable but also affordable production centers after Korea and Schantung became increasingly expensive and started to set up shop in her colonies in Southeast Asia (mainly Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaya and Siam) from the late 80s onwards. The geopolitical outlook of Germany now for the first time recongnized China as a threat to national security for her and her allies, which needed to be opposed.
1990s – 2000s
Being preceded by several major affairs in regards to the start of China's nuclear program and IP-theft in several major European firms, tensions finally escalated for the first time in 1997, after the Brits handed over Hong Kong and the Chinese government demanded Germany also handing over their colony in Schantung, with China not recognizing the treaty over the 99 year lease between the KMT and Germany in the 1920's as illegitimate and assembling a military presence on the border of the territory. The German response was explosive, with them defying the Chinese intimidation tactics and telling them to follow through on their promise, if they wished to be destroyed, which led to the Chinese quickly giving in, handing the Chinese a humiliating diplomatic defeat. Economic sanctions followed, forbidding the new setup of German businesses in China and the hold of all investments as well as the exclusion of any Chinese firms from the German stock market. All Chinese cultural institutions were closed and the property of several Chinese foreign nationals seized by the Imperial government. The US decried the measures as warmongering, imperialist and an anti-free market interception of global trade and sided with China on the issue of Schantung, claiming Germany coerced China into giving up the territory in a time of crisis. After much backpeddeling by the Chinese government, restrictions on investments were relaxed (although stringent monitoring bodies were set up to oversee any large financial transactions between foreign countries and the Empire). Leaders of industry now almost unitedly decided to significantly reduce the reliance on Chinese subcontractors and suppliers, relegating them mainly to South East Asia. The US and the elites controlling it meanwhile doubled down on their commitment to China, becoming ever more reliant on Chinese exports, with most US firms being heavily entangled with the Chinese state controlled oligopolies and the government to a point, that it became easy to manipulate, since a defeat of China in a war with the European forces would also wipe out all of the investments done in China and intercept their plan to expand their economic and geopolitical influence in East Asia. China now became the foremost threat in the eyes of German geopolitical strategists, who started drawing up detailed plans for potential war scenarios as well as several non-bellingerent tactics to combat the Yellow Peril with every legal possibility available. The conflict by this point stopped being only an economical and political conflict and gradually turned into a cultural, moral and racial struggle of the civilized world against the morally and culturally inferior Chinese civilization and the globalist financial elites in the US controlling them.
2010s and Crisis
While in the 1990s and 2000s, the new Chinese state seemed like a rising star, quickly becoming the undisputed hegemon in East Asia, this outlook started to shift in the early 2010s. Economic growth was slowing down (even though the government still reported growth figures above 5 %), the demand for urban housing was starting to dry up, the local governments were drowning in mountains of debt, the country still hadn't found a way to deal with the crippling environmental issues and the demographic crisis with millions of old people leaving the workforce with little or nothing to finance their retirement. Along with this, the Chinese government, which had allowed a relatively laissez-faire kind-of governing style, as the population was held compliant with promises of future economic growth and the chance to become part of the new middle and upper class, was now trying to avert the people's attention from the looming collapse to outside forces by trying to instill in them a spirit of ultranationalism and xenophobia, ironically, while becoming increasingly more dependent on the United States, who saw China more as a useful tool to act as stepping stone to the old world to enforce American economic domination in the area, if necessary, even through the means of force. The economic and cultural elites of the two countries therefore became inevitably intertwined, with no country being able to exist without the other. The Chinese elites, seeing the end of the line for them, started to rapidly expand the military (both in regards to the number of soldiers and to the amount of spending) and security apparatus to keep both the control over the population internally, by expanding surveillance and population control measures and preparing for a possible conflict with the Europeans and their allies in East Asia, as over time Germany seemed increasingly unlikely to honor her commitment to return her territories after the 99 years, with tensions rapidly escalating between the countries. They also made sure that even if the whole system actually were to collapse some time in the future, they would be able to escape the fallout unscathed. The 2010s were therefore marked by a number of international crises increasing both in frequency and severity as the cracks in the foundations of the Chinese state became ever more obvious. 2011 saw an unsuccessful Chinese attempt to hack into the systems of the German military, which raised tensions and put the European countries in a state of hightened alert. 2014 saw the Chinese government using a mob of mainland Chinese agitators commiting acts of vandalism and violence on a demonstration against increased government incursions in Hong Kong (which was promised a state of autonomy under the terms of 1997), using this as a pretence to crack down even harder on the independence of the city.
It was in 2019 however, when tensions came to a boiling point. A reactor in Northern China near the border with the East Asian Federation underwent a meltdown and the radioactive plume quickly moved towards major population centers in the Federation and Northern Korea and made its way further towards Central and Northern Japan. The Chinese government purposefully chose not to inform the respective governments to maximize the amount of damage done to her enemies. The Chinese leadership denied any sort of mishandling of the situation, called it an accident and blamed it on the French manufacturer of the plant, with calls for an investigation being continously blocked by China. At this point, the German leadership assembled with the ministers of war of the other members of the allied powers and openly declared, that this Chinese state was going to be wiped off the map, in the interests of all members of the confederation. And while most of the Asian members of the Confederation applauded, the Europeans remained more hesitant, especially in the face of a possible nuclear war. It was nonetheless decided to massively build up military installations along the border with China and use the next international crisis before the year 2023 (which was going to be the end of the land lease treaty for Shandong) to enact the plan for the final solution of the Chinese problem.
And in one of the increasingly more frequent military exercises near the border with Schantung, the Chinese forces mistakingly directed over the border and struck a train station killing three people. The response followed quickly, as after the message, that the Confederation will not be tolerating these unbearable humiliations any longer, they declared war on China.
The War
The First Assault
The original plan was to quickly capture Beijing with a limited force and use precision strikes to sever militarily important control points to incapacitate the Chinese military apparatus to then force the government to surrender, thereby preventing a drawn out war and bloodshed and letting the Allied powers facilitate a quick regime change in the country, which they regarded as a present or future existential threat for the security of the region, which they used to justifying their limited force military action. The plan at first actually seemed to be working as the Allies captured most of Northern China up to the Yellow River as well as the region around the Pearl River Delta and gain control over the East and South Chinese Sea within only two weeks, installing a puppet government in Beijing made up mainly of officials from Shandong and members of the Liang faction, who had worked for years to remove the ruling Dong faction from power. This was supposed to weaken the coherence of the Chinese government and show, that defection might prove profitable for members of the elite. This however also had the effect of backing the members of the Dong faction into a corner, being cut off from all means of escape and being forced to choose between surrendering to the Allies, losing every bit face along with all the power, money and status (and maybe even being put on trial for the events regarding the nuclear incident as well as the missile crisis) and escalating the war into a global conflict by drawing in the US for help to retain at least a sliver of hope of stalling and repulsing the Allied attacks long enough (with US support), so that they will eventually be forced to abandon the war due to losses in the field, costs and a change in the popular opinion on the homefront. The US was basically obligated to help, as all of the (ill-gotten) Chinese assets of the American elite could very well be seized by the Europeans in a case of a Chinese surrender. To convince the American population of the legitimacy of the war, they turbocharged the media propaganda machine using footage of staged war crimes provided by the Chinese leadership to paint the Europeans as evil savages taking advantage of a friendly, helpless nation. The American reinforcements were dispatched less than 10 days after the beginning of the war.
Full Mobilization - Limited War
The Chinese were eventually able to recover from the surprise attack and were able via the deployment of human wave attacks to slow down the Allied progress, leaving hundreds of thousands to die as cannon fodder, yet the Europeans were still making progress. The American entry into the war before anything even remote to a total surrender was achieved, rendered the original plans for the invasion useless and Plan B was now put into place, which called for a full mobilization of Allied troops to fully invade and occupy China and to completely force the United States out of Eurasia. The Americans were able to break through the naval blockade (which was also not in full force, as the Chinese navy was known to be notoriously incapable) and American troops soon arrived and were able to aid the Chinese in stopping the Allied advance and even recover some conquered land. The news of full mobilization and the declaration of war from the Allies however forced the US to also mobilize all of her troops. In a span of weeks, millions of soldiers from Europe, Asia and America were deployed on the fronts as the frontline kept shifting back and forth. After about a month however, the Allies were starting to gain the upper hand, as US reinforcements were effectively blocked off from entering the theatre, as the Europeans regained naval supremacy over the East- and South China Sea. As the situation was slowly turning against the Chinese however, they started to use increasingly more desperate and ruthless measures (such as scorched earth tactics, environmental destruction, chemical attacks and salted bombs), killing hundreds of thousands or even millions of their own civilians (directly or via exposure, starvation or dehydration) to slow down the advance of the Allies. They also encouraged the soldiers to abandon all premises of adherence to the laws of war, allowing them to kill, mutilate and rape captured enemy soldiers to demoralize them and to restore morale among the soldiery, which however often led to the soldiers taking out their frustrations on the local population, by demanding food, items or sex from the women as part of their patriotic duty. This resulted in hundreds of thousands of soldiers killing, raping and robbing their countrymen for personal enjoyment.
Total War
As a reaction the allies had also left behind all premises of a limited war and made preparations for a total war, using area bombardements, mini nuclear warheads for targeted hits on the enemy's front lines and surgical strikes against dams and other vital infrastucture. Despite all of the pushback of the Chinese military leadership, the Allied lines still continued closing in on them, which finally lead to them escalate the situation and without warning released about 50 % of the nuclear missiles in China's inventory on the neighboring countries including Japan, Korea, Vietnam and even countries in Europe. The mentality evidently was, that if they were going to perish, they were atleast going to take as many people as possible with them. Fortunately only a handful of missiles actually hit their target as most of them were successfully destroyed by Allied missile defence systems.
War of Annihilation
The impacts did however have an enormous effect on the exhausted and drained Allied leadership and soldiery, which had already started to lose all sense of mercy towards the population and seeing their cities going up in flames only became the last straw, the last act of treachery to the moral foundation, which until now kept the pitiless wrath of the leadership and common soldiery at bay and which turned the Allied ambitions from achieving a humiliating surrender for China to achieve the total annihilation of the Chinese nation; the war went from a total war to a war of extermination. As the Chinese continued to release more nuclear missiles, the Allies began implementing their own weapons of mass destruction including nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, developed in the decades prior, with China serving as a sort of testing ground for all of these weapons. They nuked almost every major settlement, still not under their control and destroyed the massive dams, built by the Chinese leadership as a sort of vanity project, which were now used to drown millions of Chinese people, as deluges of water were making their way through the valleys until they gushed out into the plain. Wuhan (which was designated as the war-time capital, since Beijing was too close to the border) was the last city still standing in the way of full Allied occupation (the city also had the best defences and was able to withstand Allied attacks until now and was by then surrounded by thousands of hidden landmines) and they wanted to make sure, that after this one final assault nothing was going to be left of the city, neither now nor in the future when they razed the city to the ground and covered it under a blanket of radiation as well as chemical and biological agents. After China was utterly defeated, the Europeans turned their gaze, now enflamed with righteous hatred, towards the USA, the Great Satan, the puppet master, the agent of ultimate evil. They offered them peace in exchange for an unconditional surrender. The American elites, fearing prosecution and execution by the Allies, rejected the offer and the war now finally turned against the Americans themselves. In the beginning the naval power still held out against the Allied advances, but after a few months, the Americans were gradually getting outgunned at sea and her allies in Latin America were asking for a seperate peace with the Europeans in exchange for military support. The Europeans eventually took Alaska and landed in Newfoundland, leaving the the American elites no choice but to use nuclear annihilation as a threat against the advancing Allies, offering them a white peace or the unleashing of America's full nuclear arsenal. The threat was falling on deaf on the allied side and the Americans followed through with the threat releasing the first 500 nuclear missiles towards Europe and Asia. Of these 500 missiles only 100 were actually fired however, as the Europeans were able to disable a large amount of them beforehand. Most missiles were again intercepted above the ocean and only two missiles actually reached Europe hitting the outskirts of Birmingham and the city of Lisbon. The nuclear response swiftly followed, turning almost every major metropolitan area into a sea of fire. The surrender of what was left of the United States quickly followed.
The Aftermath
The peace terms for both countries meant nothing less then the entire dismantlement of their national integrity to ensure, that there will never be a threat coming from any of these nations ever again.
For America, this included the deconstruction of the entire post-war American identity, which was blamed for the destructions of the war, and therefore had to be eradicated. Leading members of the American elite were eradicated and replaced with members of the European leadership, lower ranking figures of influence in culture, media, science and politics, which contributed to the warmongering and sinophilia were either laid off or reeducated. America itself was divided into smaller more culturally and geographically homogeneous areas.
For China, ideology played significantly less of a role, than in America. It was more the national character of the Chinese itself and the identity of China and Chineseness, which was identified as the problem, together with general problem of China having been by far the most populous, homogeneous and centrally governed state in the entire world. The goal therefore was to dissolve the Chinese national identity into several new identities based on existing divides within China (based on language, ethnicity, culture, history, etc.) which included:
The permanent seperation of Tibet from China as well as several minor border annexations such as the Hexi corridor by Mongolia.
The establishment of the state of Yunnan in South-Western China, devised as a multiethnic state under the leadership of the Yi ethnic group building on the identity of previous states in the area. As most of the Han population lived in the cities in this region, which were significantly harder hit by WMD-attacks, their population naturally declined here, effectively ending the domination of this ethnic group in the region.
The seperation of Sichuan from both Northern and Southern China as a special and independent cultural region with a seperate dialect and identity from the rest of China.
The seperation of the highly populated urban regions as seperate states based on their local identity fostered both in early and more recent history. The generally higher development levels of these regions and the prevailing sense of superiority towards the population in the rest of the country is also used as an argument for their statehood. The goal was to turn these states into somewhat larger city states, which control much of the regions im- and exports and economy in general, but remain reliant on the provision of food and other ressources from outside at the same time, therefore balancing out their economic power.
The seperation of Southern China from Northern China with the deepening of existing differences between the two regions. Establishment of the Southern state as the new, modern and vital state, which however in the past had been constantly dominated, disparaged and supressed by the North. The name derives from the ethnolinguistic group in the very south as well as from several historic states in the region. Since there already were significant differences, culturally, ethnically and historically, it will be attempted to establish a seperate ethnic „Yue“ identity seperate from the North.
And lastly the creation of the Northern state, which derives its cultural and ethnic identity from being directly descended from the original Han people as well as from the mythical emperors, with the original Chinese civilisation developing along the banks of the Yellow River and the parts South of the Yangtze only being conquered by the Han Dynasty in the 2nd century BC. This was often emphasized to the point of claiming, that only the Northerners are the real Chinese. The name „Hua“ is derived from the Huaxia, the original northern pre-imperial Chinese civilisation.
The region around Wuhan was declared an exclusion zone due to the massive amount of remaining hazards and is still occupied by the Allied forces.
Lastly a series of renamings regarding terms with references to China were also changed as seen in the renaming of the East- and South China Sea.
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