User blog comment:LurkerLordB/Easternized World/@comment-1630894-20120411023201

By the way, how plausible does everyone think this timeline is? Bear in mind that the POD is 755, and the next two and a half centuries are different primarily in that China develops gunpowder and other technologies to make it the most powerful nation on the earth (and without losing so many people in the civil war their population would be much larger as well, to the extent they would be the most populous) so their expansion burst isn't that implausible.