raharris1973
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What if the PRC from 1 October, 1950, is ISOT'ed back 20 years to 1 October, 1930?
This is the entire territory sovereignly controlled by the PRC, so the only exceptions are the remaining foreign leasehold territories, which in 1950 were the Portuguese leased Macau, British leased Hong Kong, and Soviet leased Dalian and Lushun/Port Arthur on the Guangdong peninsula. Those don't ISOT back, so they remain in their 1930 incarnations, which are controlled by Portugal, Britain, and Japan, respectively. However, by 1950 numerous other concession areas and leases throughout other Chinese cities and ports like Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhouan had been abolished, so their 1930 foreign owners/protectors will wonder where their property, expats, and regular contacts suddenly disappeared to.
The Chinese PLA is poised to begin the occupation of Lhasa, Tibet, establishing control over the core Tibetan region. It has also reconsolidated a great deal of armed forces in the Northeast Frontier Army north of the Yalu compared to their location earlier in the summer in the Taiwan straits, in readiness to intervene in Korea, where war has broken out, and the Americans intervened. Having strong PLA forces in the Northeast provinces is fortuitous when suddenly dropped in the international environment of 1930, since the Northeast provinces border irate Japanese formations of Kwangtung Army and Korea Army who wonder just why they aren't hearing from their troops in the South Manchuria Railway zone and why there's no routine traffic from there.
The PRC government has diplomatic ties to establish with the USSR (the Republic of China has broken diplomatic relations with the USSR and not restored them by 1930) and gets to surprise them by mentioning that the two countries have a treaty of alliance. Mao Zedong, his comrades, and likely Soviet personnel present in China likely have some "news from the future" they would like to convey to the USSR about the decade and a half ahead.
The PRC also would probably like to change the situation of having the Japanese Empire as a neighbor on land, ASAP, seeing the Japanese removed from the Guangdong peninsula and Korean Peninsula, in that order. Beijing also desires Japanese ouster from Taiwan and the Pescadores, but that is probably less strictly urgent, from a pure security POV, and probably also more difficult to accomplish.
This is the entire territory sovereignly controlled by the PRC, so the only exceptions are the remaining foreign leasehold territories, which in 1950 were the Portuguese leased Macau, British leased Hong Kong, and Soviet leased Dalian and Lushun/Port Arthur on the Guangdong peninsula. Those don't ISOT back, so they remain in their 1930 incarnations, which are controlled by Portugal, Britain, and Japan, respectively. However, by 1950 numerous other concession areas and leases throughout other Chinese cities and ports like Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhouan had been abolished, so their 1930 foreign owners/protectors will wonder where their property, expats, and regular contacts suddenly disappeared to.
The Chinese PLA is poised to begin the occupation of Lhasa, Tibet, establishing control over the core Tibetan region. It has also reconsolidated a great deal of armed forces in the Northeast Frontier Army north of the Yalu compared to their location earlier in the summer in the Taiwan straits, in readiness to intervene in Korea, where war has broken out, and the Americans intervened. Having strong PLA forces in the Northeast provinces is fortuitous when suddenly dropped in the international environment of 1930, since the Northeast provinces border irate Japanese formations of Kwangtung Army and Korea Army who wonder just why they aren't hearing from their troops in the South Manchuria Railway zone and why there's no routine traffic from there.
The PRC government has diplomatic ties to establish with the USSR (the Republic of China has broken diplomatic relations with the USSR and not restored them by 1930) and gets to surprise them by mentioning that the two countries have a treaty of alliance. Mao Zedong, his comrades, and likely Soviet personnel present in China likely have some "news from the future" they would like to convey to the USSR about the decade and a half ahead.
The PRC also would probably like to change the situation of having the Japanese Empire as a neighbor on land, ASAP, seeing the Japanese removed from the Guangdong peninsula and Korean Peninsula, in that order. Beijing also desires Japanese ouster from Taiwan and the Pescadores, but that is probably less strictly urgent, from a pure security POV, and probably also more difficult to accomplish.