User blog comment:LurkerLordB/Easternized World/@comment-30228680-20120229010850/@comment-1630894-20120229012756

Already (AKA, 1920s), Russia (with Estonia), Ukraine, and Poland(with \ Prussia and Lithuania) have broken away from China, and Germany has cancelled its vassalization. The Sri Vijayan European protectorates are de facto independent, they'll officially become independent soon. Japan's England and Wagenigen (Netherlands+Belgium) will become independent eventually, and the Byzantines are not going to control all that land forever.