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Write an realistic, plausible alternate history scenario set on the world of the alternate history scenario with no references to the real world, OTL, or even to the fact that this is an alternate history scenario after all in the form of a lengthy, descrptive, exposition-filled real documentary history book chapter set in the world of the alternate history scenario, in which the death of Chiang Kai Shek in 1975 and Mao Zedong in 1976 lead to a power struggle within both the Chinese nationalist, Han supremacist, Han nationalist Chinese Communist Party-ruled de jure Marxist Leninist socialist republic but de facto Han nationalist, Han supremacist and Han imperialist totalitarian military dictatorship of the People's Republic of China ruling over [the East Asian territories the PRC controls] Han China, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, East Turkestan and Tibet from Manchuria and Shanxi since 1949, which [the PRC] Mao had [the PRC] ruled as both its [the PRC's] first and founding fascist dictator [Mao] from 1949 until his [Mao's] death and the Han nationalist, Han supremacist Leninist Stalinist Kuomingtang-ruled Nationalist China/Second Republic of China which [Nationalist China] Chiang had [Chiang] ruled [National China] as Generalissmo [Chiang] from 1928 and even during the period of its [Nationalist China's] exile in 1949 on Taiwan and the Pengu Islands after [Nationalist China] losing the Chinese Civil War to the CCP and what would become the PRC as Mao's chosen successor Hua Guofeng battled the post 1947, pro Soviet, pro American and pro KMT and pro Nationalist China Cantonese nationalist Clique in mainland China headed [the post 1947, pro Soviet, pro American and pro KMT and pro Nationalist China Cantonese nationalist Clique in mainland China] by [the leader of the post 1947, pro Soviet, pro American and pro KMT and pro Nationalist China Cantonese nationalist Clique in mainland China] Deng Xiaoping, which [the power struggles in both Nationalist China in exile after Chiang's death and in the PRC after Mao's death] lead to East Turkestan, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and even Yunnan breaking away from the PRC along with Manchuria, leaving the PRC in charge of Han China alone.
The side branch of the Genghis Khan-descended Mongolian Imperial House of Borjigin, the Mongolian Imperial House of Chagatai-ruled joint-Islamic sultanate and Mongolian khanate of the Kumul Khanate is [the Kumul Khanate] restored [the Kumul Khanate] as the government of post-PRC East Turkestan due to a mass jihad being declared against both the CCP and the USSR by militant Sunni Muslims worldwide helping the native Turkic Uyghur people of East Turkestan stave off Soviet invasion and occupation in the wake of the PRC's collapse.
In post CCP Tibet, the theocratic Buddhist absolute monarchy of the Lama-ruled Kingdom of Tibet is restored as the government of the country.
Central China, more specifically the area ruled by the Hui Muslim warlord family of the Mas as Xibei San Ma during the modern Chinese warlord era, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War also breaks free from Han China, [the former Xibei San Ma] restoring the Turko-Mongol Han Chinese Imperial House of Li-ruled Great Tang Empire/Tang dynasty to power as an Islamic sultanate in the model of the Arab Islamic monarchies, the Ottoman Empire and the pre Russian Empire Mongol Empire successor states in Central Asia.
Yunnan restores the Bai-Han Chinese Imperial House of Duan-ruled Daili Kingdom as its [Yunnan's] government.
Guangxi and Guangdong unite [Guangxi and Guangdong] into the Cantonian Federation or the Republic of Cantonia, which [Cantonia] is [Cantonia] annexed [Cantonia] by the Marxist-Leninist Vietnamese nationalist Communist Party of Vietnam-ruled Socialist Republic of Vietnam in Vietnam at the request of Cantonese leaders, although the Socialist Republic of China falls soon after this due to KMT, US and CCP remnant secret support of Vietnamese Nationalist Party rebels, but the side branch of the Imperial House of Zhu, the Imperial House of Ngyuen/Ngyuen dynasty-ruled continuation/modernization/Government in exile of the Great Ming State, the Empire of Vietnam returns to power in Vietnam, the Lao People Revolutionary Party-ruled Lao Democratic People's Republic occupying Laos also collapses and the Khun Lo dynasty-ruled Kingdom of Laos returns to power in Laos and the House of Norodom-ruled Kingdom of Cambodia regains power in Cambodia after the CCP and US-backed Khmer Rouge terrrorists in Cambodia collapse, although the restored Empire of Vietnam quickly absorbs the restored Kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia into itself [the restored Empire of Vietnam], the restored Empire of Vietnam becoming a modern day incarnation [the restored Empire of Vietnam] of the ancient Han Chinese Zhao dynasty/Triệu dynasty-ruled Nanyue Kingdom.
The CCP is [the CCP] reabsorbed into its [the CCP's] parent political organization, the Han nationalist, Han supremacist, Han fascist conservative political organization adhering to Dr Sun Yat Sen's three principles of the people, nationalism, democracy, and the livelihood of the people (or welfarism) [the Chinese political organization the CCP broke away from], the Young China Party [YCP], which [the YCP] was [the YCP] named [the YCP] after the now- infamous Young Turks in the now long dissolved Turkish Imperial House of Osman-ruled Ottoman Empire, [the YCP] having followed the KMT and the ROC into exile on Taiwan in 1949 but [the YCP] returning to Han China after the PRC's overthrow by request of moderates within the CCP, [the CCP's remerger with the YCP] becoming [the CCP as part of the YCP once more] the YCP's ultra-nationalist left-wing [the CCP as part of the YCP once more] again as the YCP becomes the governing political organization [the YCP] of post-Mao, CCP-ruled Han China.
The millenianist Chinese folk religious sect focused on militant self-defense and tax resistance along with romanticised monarchism, wishing to restore the pre Qing Han Chinese Imperial House of Zhu-ruled Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/"Ming dynasty" as the government of China, the Yellow Sand Society continues to grow in strength and [the Yellow Sand Society] increase membership and support, both among the Han Chinese peasantry and compromised government officials and [the Yellow Sand Society] overthrows the PRC in 1980 with the help of compromised elements of the CCP, the PRC's combined land, sea and air combat forces, the People's Liberation Army, the combined protection service for the elite section of the CCP, domestic secret police agency and border control division of the PRC, the Ministry of State Security, the paramilitary organization of the PRC's government primarily responsible for internal security, riot control, counter-terrorism, disaster response, law enforcement and maritime rights protection, the Chinese People's Armed Police, along with the Triads, who [the Triads] have [the Triads] switched from the KMT and Nationalist China to the Yellow Sand Society due to their [the Triads'] initial formation as a means to restore the Great Ming State to power in China.
The Yellow Sand Society is forced to compromise with the YCP, [the Yellow Sand Society] restoring the Beiyang Government of the first Republic of China in the form of a restored Yuan Shikai-founded Empire of China as an Islamic sultanate under Sharia Law with the surviving descendants of the Imperial House of Zhu being reenthroned as the Chinese Imperial family in the place of Yuan Shikai's descendants, who are [Yuan Shikai's descendants] absorbed into the reenthroned Imperial House of Zhu along with the descendants of the infamous Chinese warlord and leader of the Chinese bandit faction/military junta that occupied both Manchuria and the Beiyang Government-ruled Republic of China during the modern warlord period of modern Chinese history, the Fengtian Clique, Chang Hsueh-liang aka Zhang Xueliang, [Xueliang's and Shikai's descendants being absorbed into the reenthroned Imperial House of Zhu] in order to create a united Pan-Chinese imperial house and prevent factionalism and rival claimants to the throne.
This restored Empire of China ruled by the Zhu instead of Yuan Shikai's descendants and is still officially referred to in English as the People's Republic of China but is referred to as the Empire of China or the Empire of the Great Ming in traditional Chinese.
A modified version of the Kuomingtang's Blue Sky, White Sun, and a Wholly Red Earth flag becomes its [the restored Ming State's] naval flag, [the restored Great Ming State] replacing the Kuomintang's White Sun with a white-outer rayed, red inner-rayed yellow sun with the Chinese character for "Ming" in the middle of the yellow sun in tribute to the original Ming blue sky and red outer rayed yellow sun flag while the crossed 18-star iron blood flag of the Xinhai Revolution becomes the Chinese army flag. The Beiyang Government of the Republic of China’s Twelve Symbols national emblem is [the twelve symbols National Emblem] rechosen [the twelve symbols national emblem] as the Chinese national emblem, albiet with two crossed 18-star iron blood flags behind the main insigna of the emblem as tribute to the Xinhai Revolution, and a plum blossom/Chinese plum seal akin to the Japanese imperial family's, the Imperial House of Great Yamato's/the Minamoto dynasty's Chrysanthemum seal is [the plum blossom seal] chosen as the reinstated Imperial House of Zhu's seal while the peony remains the Chinese national flower.
Yuan Shikai's descendants are absorbed into the reenthroned Imperial House of Zhu via concubine, polygamy and adoption as a means of forming a unified post 1644 Chinese imperial house and also to prevent any succession claims. The pre-Genghis Khan-descended Mongolian Imperial House of Borjigin-ruled Great Mongol Nation/"Mongol Empire" and its [the Great Mongol Nation's] successor state ruling over much of Siberia, parts of Central Asia, Inner and Outer Manchuria, Han China, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, East Turkestan and Tibet from Greater Mongolia, the Genghis Khan-descended Mongolian Imperial House of Borjigin-ruled Great Yuan Empire/Great Yuan State/Yuan dynasty, [the pre-Mongol Empire and pre-Yuan dynasty] and the pre-Manchu Imperial House of Aisin-Gioro-ruled Manchu-dominated Great Qing Empire/Empire of the Great Qing ruling over Han China, Greater Mongolia, Tuva Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, East Turkestan and Tibet from Inner and Outer Mongolia, Ming era [the pre-Mongol Empire, pre-Great Yuan, and pre-Qing] Han Chinese aristocracy, monarchy and nobility is [the pre-Yuan Mongol Empire, pre-Great Yuan, and pre-Qing Han Chinese aristocracy, monarchy and nobility] subsequently restored, restructured, readjusted and modified for the modern world of the late 20th century, [the pre-Yuan Mongol Empire, pre-Great Yuan, and pre-Qing Han Chinese aristocracy, monarchy and nobility] being [the pre-Yuan Mongol Empire, pre-Great Yuan, and pre-Qing Han Chinese aristocracy, monarchy and nobility] merged with the system of peerage Yuan Shikai had [Yuan Shikai] created when he [Yuan Shikai] formed the Empire of China in 1915.
After a series of tense negotiations and crises that almost sparked conflict in the China region, the KMT-ruled Nationalist Chinese government in exile in Taiwan and the Pengu Islands agreed to reunification with the now post-CCP and post-PRC-ruled Chinese mainland, with the restored Empire of China almagating some aspects of the Nationalist Chinese government into its own political, economic and military structure. The restored Empire of China's restored Bicameral legislative branch consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives, the National Assembly [the restored Empire's of China's restored National Assembly] absorbs National China's unicameral legislature, the Legistative Yuan into itself [the restored Empire's of China's restored National Assembly] with the KMT becoming a part of the political coalition governing the restored Empire of China, Nationalist China's combined land, air and sea combat force, the Republic of China Armed Forces/Chinese National Armed Forces absorbs the still-existing PLA into itself [the ROCAF] and [the ROCAF] becoming a restored version of the Beiyang Government's of the Republic of China's armed wing and the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China's combined ground combat, naval warfare and aerial warfare branch, the Beiyang Army and from November 1928, the National Pacification Army [the ROCAF absorbing the still existing PLA into itself |the ROCAF| and |the ROCAF| subsequently becoming a restored Beiyang Army/National Pacification Army], the PLA's special operation force with an intended rapid-response units in the event of a limited regional war under high-tech conditions, also carrying out Special Operations, counter-terrorism, and intelligence gathering operations both inside and outside of China, the People's Liberation Army Special Operations Forces, [the PLASOF] being [the PLASOF] absorbed [the PLASOF] into the ROCAF's elite special forces unit tasked with carring out special operations, including decaptation strikes in the events of a war, the Airborne Special Service Company, [the PLASOF being |the PLASOF| absorbed |the PLASOF| into the ASSC] the Nationalist Chinese National Police Agency which [the NPA] falls under the Nationalist Chinese Ministry of the Interior and [the NPA] oversees all all police forces within National China on a national level, [the NPA] absorbs the still-existing civilian police of the now-long dissolved PRC, the People's Police into itself [the NPA], [the NPA absorbing the People's Police into itself |the NPA|] and the Chinese People's Armed Police being [the Chinese People's Armed Police] absorbed [the Chinese People's Armed Police] into the National Police Agency's specialist unit and highly trained police tactical unit conducting high-risk arrests and other dangerous law enforcement duties, the Thunder Squad.
Due to the reunification of Nationalist China with the Chinese mainland and the subsequent refusal of Taiwan and the Pengu Islands to [Taiwan and the Pengu Islands] become a part [Taiwan and the Pengu Islands] of mainland China, the Americans convince the Soviets to drop all support for the KMT-lead Nationalist China in exile and also to jointly return Taiwan and the Pengu Islands to Japan in a repeat of the return of Okinawa to Japan in 1972.
Fearing that pro-democracy protests in the joint US-PRC puppet state of the military dictatorship of the Republic of Korea occupying South Korea and the Soviet satellite state of the Worker's Party of Korea-ruled Democratic People's Republic of Korea occupying North Korea and from there spread to the USSR, thus affecting the stability of the Soviet Union, Soviet leaders also pressure the Americans to return all of the Korean peninsula to Japan with US and Soviet troops withdrawing from both the former DPRK and ROK in exchange for nonaggression treaties and an unofficial acknowledgment of the USA and USSR both starting the Second Sino Japanese War by backing Chiang Kai Shek against Japan during the Second Sino Japanese War. The Soviets also return Sahlakin and the Kurils to Japan.
After the return of Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, the Korean peninsula, Sahalkin and the Kurils to Japan, the Japanese restore the post-1947, pre-DPRK, pre-ROK People's Republic of Korea founded [the PRK] by Korean independence activist Lyuh Woon-hyung in 1947 before its [the PRK's] subsequent invasion by both the USSR and USA and the subsequent establishment of the DPRK ruled [the DPRK] by Korean resistance fighter Kim-il Sung in North Korea by the Soviets and what would become the ROK in South Korea by the USA and the PRC, [the Japanese restoring the PRK] as the government [the PRK] of a united, post-DPRK, post-ROK Korean peninsula with a coalition of opposition pro-democracy and anti-Kim and anti-WPK politicians from both the now dissolved DPRK and ROK serving in the restored PRK's government.
The Japanese also restore the Ming satellite state, rump kingdom and tributary kingdom of the Japanese-Han Chinese Zheng dynasty/Royal House of Koxinga-rules Tungning Kingdom as the government [the Tungning Kingdom] of Taiwan and the Pengu Islands, while [the Japanese] making Sahkalin and the Pengu Islands into the restored Japanese province of Karufuto.
Japan also [Japan] restores its [Japan's] pre-WW2 and [Japan's] WW2-era imperial era protectorates of the Qing Imperial family, the Manchu House of Aisin-Gioro-ruled Empire of Manchukuo in Manchuria and the Genghis Khan-descended Imperial House of Borjigin-ruled Mongolian Autonomous Federation in Inner Mongolia's Chahar and Suiyan regions.
This restored Empire of China is [the Zhu-ruled restored Empire of China] a provisional authoritarian absolute imperial unitary royal monarchy under acombination of military dictatorship and semi-totalitarian party coalition from 1981-1985, and then a constitutional parliamentary democratic absolute federalist unitary Imperial Royal monarchy with free and fair, democratic multiparty elections from 1986 onwards, [the restored Empire of China] being known as the Empire of China in both traditional Chinese and English onwards as well.
The restored Empire of China is [the restored Empire of China] known as the Saudi Arabia of East Asia due to its [the restored Empire of China's] still-semi-authoritarian government and [the restored Empire of China's] adherence to Islamic government under Sharia Law along with its [the restored Empire of China's] vast oil wealth, with the restored Empire of Vietnam being compared to the Kingdom of Jordan, the restored Tang dynasty being compared to the pre-Saddam Kingdom of Iraq and the restored Daili Kingdom being compared to Qatar.
The Imperial House of Zhu-ruled restored Empire of China has an informal tributary status with Japan akin to the Beiyang Government-ruled First Republic of China's final incarnation as the WW2 era Japanese protectorate of the Reorganized Government of the Republic of China under Sun Yat Sen's protégé and rightful heir, Wang Jingwei [Sun Yat Sen's protégé and rightful heir]. The Reorganized Government is [the Reorganized Government] considered [the Reorganized Government] to [the Reorganized Government] be the predecessor state [the Reorganized Government] of the restored Empire of China.
Sun Yat Sen is still honored as the father of the nation [the restored Empire of China] and his [Yat Sen's] three principles of the people play a key role in the government of the nation [the restored Empire of China], but its [the restored Empire of China's] real founders are considered to be Shikai, Jingwei and controversially Mao.
Mao Zedong is seen in both China and the rest of Asia the same way as Franco is seen in Spain and the rest of Europe: A brutal dictator [Mao and Franco] who [Mao and Franco] fought against communist terrorists [the Spanish Republicans and the KMT] backed [the Spanish Republicans and the KMT] by both the Americans and the Soviets but whose [Franco's and Mao's] actions lead to the restoration of the monarchy [the Bourbon-ruled Kingdom of Spain and the Zhu-ruled Great Ming Empire] after his [Franco's and Mao's] death.
ASSISTANT
Chapter XIV: The Divergent Paths of China and the Rebirth of Empires
The passing of Chiang Kai-shek in 1975 and Mao Zedong in 1976 marked a significant turning of the page in the history of the Chinese nations. As both the People's Republic of China and the Nationalist China on Taiwan grappled with the power vacuums left by their long-standing leaders, a series of events unfolded that would reshape the face of East Asia and reverberate across the world.
I. The Splintering of the People's Republic
The immediate aftermath of Mao's death unraveled the tentative unity within the Communist Party. Hua Guofeng, anointed as Mao's successor, found himself in a fiercely contested battle for control against adversaries emboldened by the leader's absence. Among these adversaries, the most formidable was Deng Xiaoping, leader of a Cantonese nationalist faction, who harbored sympathies toward both the Soviet and American models of governance and harbored a latent nostalgia for the Kuomintang's rule.
As the power struggle intensified, regional nationalism and ethnic tensions, long suppressed under the iron fist of the Communist regime, began to surface. The vast territories under the Party's control started to witness upheavals of significant proportions. By the late 1970s, the fringes of the empire crumbled as East Turkestan, Tibet, and Yunnan declared their independence.
II. The Rising of Dominions
The tumult within the PRC created strategic openings for various regional powers and latent authorities to emerge. The Kumul Khanate, with its historic legacy tracing back to Genghis Khan's house of Borjigin, rose from the ashes, heralding a new dawn for East Turkestan. The global Muslim community rallied in support, fearing the expansionist tendencies of the Soviet Union into historically Islamic lands.
In the high plateaus of Tibet, the ancient theocracy saw revival. The Dalai Lama, once a figurehead in exile, now returned as the sovereign of a free Tibet, instituting a government founded on Buddhist principles.
Meanwhile, in Central China, the legacy of the Ma clan's warlord rule served as the substrate for the restoration of the Great Tang Empire, albeit in a modern Islamic Sultanate form. This new empire, drawing inspiration from its glorious past, articulated a fresh identity that was seeped equally in Chinese tradition and Islamic governance.
To the South, Yunnan retraced its lineage to the erstwhile Dali Kingdom, rekindling the flame of the Bai-Han Chinese imperial house under the guidance of the Duan family.
III. The Struggles of Guangxi and Guangdong
The southern provinces of Guangxi and Guangdong united in a federation, seeking to chart an independent path amidst the politicking of greater powers. Their union, however, was short-lived as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam annexed them at the behest of local leadership. Yet, this assimilation into Vietnam did not last as the undercurrents of nationalism spurred a revolution. The ancient imperial lineage of the Nguyen, cousins to the great Ming, were restored to oversee a new Vietnamese empire that swiftly reincorporated Laos and Cambodia, creating a dominion reminiscent of the mighty Nanyue.
IV. The Yellow Sand and the Rise of the Zhu
Within the heartland of Han China, the fragmentation of the PRC fueled the resurgence of the Young China Party, assimilating the remnants of the Communist Party and invoking the spirit of the Young Turks. This hybrid political entity found an unlikely ally in the Yellow Sand Society, a folk religious group dedicated to martial monarchism and yearning to resurrect the Ming dynasty. With opportunistic Triad support, they usurped power and reinstated a Ming-like state, leading to the birth of a new imperial era.
The new government adopted symbols of both its revolutionary and imperial past, fashioning a state emblem that evoked the twelve symbols of the Beiyang government and flying a flag that synthesized elements of Kuomintang iconography and Ming heraldry.
V. The Harmony of Old and New
The complicated tapestry of old bloodlines and revolutionaries sought to balance tradition with modernity. The descendants of Yuan Shikai, who once endeavored to establish a new imperial lineage, were merged with the Imperial House of Zhu, solidifying the new dynasty and eliminating the potential for rival claims.
VI. Reunification and Beyond
As the dust settled, the Nationalist government on Taiwan negotiated a historic reunification with the mainland. This delicate process involved the integration of Nationalist military and administrative structures into those of the new empire. As a result, the Republic of China Armed Forces became embedded within a refurbished Beiyang military fabric.
The resolution of cross-strait relations, however, resulted in unforeseen geopolitical shifts. The United States and the Soviet Union, seeking to mitigate the risk of pro-democracy movements, facilitated the return of Taiwan and surrounding territories to Japanese control. Japan, reverting to policies of an earlier imperial age, restored old protectorates and satellite states across its sphere of influence, renewing ancient allegiances and buffering its own position in Asia.
VII. The Empire Reinvented
As the 1980s dawned, the Empire of China transcended its provisional authoritarian beginnings, evolving into a constitutional monarchy with democratic elections. Its blend of imperial tradition, nationalism, and Islam swiftly earned it the moniker of "Saudi Arabia of Asia," referencing its unique polity and wealth, and naturally its alignment under a de facto informal tributary relationship with Japan.
It was an era both transformative and retrospective, as the defining characteristics of the modern Empire of China took shape—rooted in the heritages of Sun Yat-sen, Yuan Shikai, Wang Jingwei, and controversially, Mao Zedong himself.
From this crucible of upheaval and tradition, a new Asia emerged, wherein the restored empires each carved out spheres of cultural, economic, and politico-religious influence, shaping an eclectic era known alternately as the Resurgence of Empires or the Asian Restoration, leaving an indelible mark on the history of the region and the world at large.