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  1. Pan-Asian Antinationalism

    List of recipients of tribute from China

  2. Pan-Asian Antinationalism

    If kicking someone's butt means paying them to stop attacking you, sure.

  3. AHC/What If: End the Atlantic Slave Trade earlier

    China most certainly had slavery, it just didn't import African slaves at European scales.

  4. Pan-Asian Antinationalism

    Well, good luck telling the Mongols and the other steppe raiders that they owe fealty to the people whose asses they've been kicking for the last thousand years.

  5. Ming conquer Indian Ocean

    There were no creole Chinese communities in Southeast Asia because the Chinese kept assimilating really quick into the local society. There were Chinese enclaves in port cities but that was because their numbers kept getting replenished by new merchants coming from the motherland. To get an...

  6. Japanese China and the "imperial" titles

    It would be a diplomatic insult to refer to a monarch as a mere don. In Spanish they would be "Su Majestad" (Your Majesty) or "Alteza" (Highness) same as in English. I believe you can also use "Señor" (Sire), though.

  7. Afghanistan becomes Switzerland of Asia

    Would Iran be a more realistic target? It's a generally conservative country but actually functional in governance and economy.

  8. AHC: Create a nation that is a blend of Europeans and East Asians.

    Southeast Asia had low population density until the 19th century. And the Philippine population also decreased immediately after the Spanish conquest, though not as much as in the Americas. It was because isolated highland peoples got connected into the Eurasian disease pool that their lowland...

  9. Jiyu Banzai! A Japanese Timeline

    You're missing a step. The economics article was written by a Harvard professor, presumably in English, and started a debate in orthodox economics. Then 3 years later a Japanese newspaper wrote about the original article. The discussion was very technical and hard to understand but the gist that...

  10. Jiyu Banzai! A Japanese Timeline

    Nice, GDP gets invented and conservatives get their foot back in the door. I like this kind of left-field development.

  11. Anime without "Lost 30 Years"

    Japan with a weak economy continued to make manga and anime primarily for Japanese audiences. I don't see why a Japan with a strong economy would act any different.

  12. Anime without "Lost 30 Years"

    It was mentioned earlier in the thread but not remarked on: the US comics market collapsed in the 1990s and manga took its place, echoing what happened with video games in the 80s. Manga probably would still be brought over in a world with a booming Japan and from there it's not such a big leap...

  13. WI there was a large East Asian community in India?

    You'd need a reason for them to bypass Southeast Asia and go all the way to India instead. Southeast Asia already had large Chinese communities ready to take them in. In fact, they probably even already had relatives in Malacca or wherever to help with the transition.

  14. WI: The Siamese attacks Japan during the Imjin War

    The Thai would find it hard to expand in maritime Southeast Asia since the people there had a lot more experience with naval warfare and had ships armed with cannons and swivel-guns. The money would probably be better spent hiring Malay privateers to raid Japanese shipping or attack the coasts...

  15. More Ronin overseas during and after Sengoku Period?

    The Dutch hired ronin mercenaries to fight for them in Batavia. Not sure what happened to them though, presumably they just moved on to the next contract. There was also a small community of Japanese Christians who escaped to the Philippines after Christianity was banned in Japan. Plus there...

  16. Australia keeps the "White Australia" Immigration policy.

    Australia would presumably be smaller in population and therefore have a smaller economy, smaller military, and smaller global footprint. I'm looking here and it seems like in 2022 roughly 15% of Australia was non-white (I included Iraqis but the number should be a little bit higher since some...

  17. Effects of the independent invention of the outrigger canoe by Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest.

    The outrigger by itself would be useless for traversing the Pacific without the corresponding navigational knowledge that the Polynesians had. This was a very extensive body of knowledge developed over centuries, first by the Polynesians' Austronesian forebears sailing between the relatively...

  18. A Superpower Qing Dynasty: Dulimbai Gurun in 2024

    Speaking of pandas and the natural environment, with the Qing never declining then more people would have survived instead of emigrating to escape the Taiping Rebellion or dying in one of many historical famines. Those extra millions would have needed firewood, coal, farmland, roads, houses...

  19. A Superpower Qing Dynasty: Dulimbai Gurun in 2024

    The city is still called Vladivostok instead of something Chinese?

  20. A Superpower Qing Dynasty: Dulimbai Gurun in 2024

    Hmm, I hadn't thought about fashion. I suppose there wouldn't be any hanfu revivalists like in the real China since that style of dress wouldn't have gone away in the first place. Perhaps it would be more like how fashion evolved in South Asia, except with less direct Western influence? Qing...
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