Republic of China (Through a Glass, Darkly)

The Republic of China is a country located in eastern Asia. Though self proclaimed to be a democracy, the country is under a Illiberal democractic regime controlled by a single party.

History
The Republic of China was formally established on 1 January 1912 on mainland China following the Xinhai Revolution which itself began with the Wuchang Uprising on 10 October 1911, and replaced the Qing Dynasty and ended over two thousand years of imperial rule in China.

Though the presidency of the new republic was supposed to be handed to General Yuan Shikai, Sun Yat-sen was able to convince Yuan to accept the position of provisional Commander-in-chief with the promise that he is able to form his own separate monarch in Manchuria when the China is stabilized. Giving Yuan the position demoted Huang Xing to the provisional Minister of Foreign Affairs; this greatly strained the relation between Sun and Huang.

The early years of the republic was faced with wide scale economic disaster, the agricultural reform that the peasants desperately needed was not implemented in many areas, and badly maintained in area that did receive it. Along with poor development and reformation in the domestic areas, China also faced warlordism in unregulated provinces.

The industrial and civil sector, as well as its military, experienced rapid development, contrast to the agricultural sector, main due to the Sino-German cooperation in 1912, which allowed the drafting of a Chinese civil code (based upon the German civil code) and development, and granted 6 million Goldmark loan to the Chinese Republic.

Because of the 1902 Anglo-Japanese and the Triple Entente of 1907, Germany proposed a German-Chinese-American Entente in 1907, and the Entente was created in the summer of 1914, with the signing of the Alliance between the three countries in the Nanjing Presidential Place.