Nuclear China

This alternate timeline has several major points of divergence

First point- The Russian Empire in this timeline manages to institute many of the reforms that could have prevented the Russian Civil War and the communist revolution in our timeline however more zealot communist leaders like Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky are forced to flee to China.

Second point- The Chinese Civil War occurs in place of the Russian Civil War and the communist revolution, like our timeline counterpart the Chinese Civil War starts in 1917 when Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky convert Mao Zedong to communism which leads Mao Zedong to