User blog:SArchangel/Altverse Concept

Concept #1: Alternate History of China
Premises:
 * China (with the exclusion of Altverse’s Machuria) is divided between (1) the Northern one-party communist sovereign state, the People’s Republic of China (Zhönghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó), and (2) the Southern multi-party democratic republic, the United Republic of China (Zhönghuá Liánbāng)
 * [Border suggestion subject to change] The border between the two countries is divided by the Kunlun Mountains, the Qin Mountains, and the Yangtze River. Tibet, Qinghai, Western Sichuan, and all other land below the Yangtze River which is the primary border at the Chinese flatland belongs to the United Republic of China. As for Shanghai, Chongming Island is a Demilitarization Zone that belongs to neither nation according to the 1954 United Nations Armistice, while Shanghai being south of the Yangtze River, belongs to the United Republic. Guangzhou is the capital of the United Republic of China.
 * The Chinese Civil War "ended" in