People's Republic of China (1983: Doomsday)

The People's Republic of China is a state in East Asia. It is one of the few East Asian states that survived Doomsday, but also one of the most damaged. It was the rival of the Soviet Union in the leadership of communism; however, perhaps because of the perceived incompetence of the Chinese Communist Party in handling the post-nuclear world, a military coup by a PLA commander caused dramatic changes in Chinese society. However, even then, it was unable to prevent the independence of Tibet, the resurgence of Nationalist China albeit in a transformed state, and the annexation of Xinjiang and Manchuria. Today, China is trying to re-enter the international community. However, perhaps due to harsh conditions that the Chinese people still endured, it's recovery is rather painful.

==	History==

China in 1983 was ruled in the mainland by the Chinese Communist Party. It had a turbulent history, and when its founder Mao Zedong died, there was a power struggle in which Deng Xiaoping, a moderate, won over the "Gang of Four" led by Mao's widow Mao Jiang Qing. Deng initiated reforms in the economy while keeping it communist, and he continued his country's belligerent stance toward the Soviet Union.

===	Doomsday===

China was struck down by Soviet nuclear missiles at the time of Doomsday. The Chinese were caught surprised, their capital in Beijing reduced to nuclear wasteland, and dozens other cities. Only a few Chinese Politburo, National People's Congress, and government officials survived, and the officials in question are in the countryside to visit them; Deng was unable to escape in time in Beijing. The Chinese retaliated with their surviving nuclear weapons, but their targets in the Soviet Union are already wasted with American nuclear weapons. The Chinese are more successful in decapitating the Nationalist government in Taiwan with a nuclear strike in Taipei, though in the end, the PLA was unable to invade the island. Chaos ensued as hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated to the countryside, and along with it, chaos, disease, and even armed clashes between surviving PLA units.

One of the major surviving cities is Yinchuan, Ningxia. It was not hit by a Soviet nuclear strike. Since it was deemed the only major city in China that was left intact, the remnants of the Chinese government convened in Yinchuan to establish an emergency government in May 21, 1983. Martial law was declared in all of China on June 1. However, many PLA units ignore this order.

Cities erased in Doomsday:

*		Beijing

*		Changchun

*		Chengdu

*		Chongqing

*		Dalian

*		Dinghai

*		Fuzhou

*		Ganzhou

*		Guangzhou

*		Guiyang

*		Harbin

*		Jinan

*		Lanzhou

*		Lhasa

*		Lunoning

*		Nanjing

*		Nanning

*		Qingdao

*		Shanghai

*		Shenyang

*		Shenzhen

*		Tianjin

*		Wuhan

*		Xi'an

*		Zham Jiang

===	Chaos===

Many PLA commanders, tired of not been given ample warnings by the Provisional Chinese government in Yinchuan, declared themselves "independent of the Provisional Government". One of these PLA commanders, from the Guangzhou military region, decided to end what he called "the Mandate of the Damned." Liu Zhou Ming was a regimental commander in the PLA during the clashes between China and Vietnam in 1979. Although a competent commander, he had seen his troops die due to interference of political commissars from the party. Fed up anyway, he contacted some of his friends from the Northwest Military Region to stage a revolt against the party.

In June 12, 1983, he and other commanders from the Northwest Military Region mutinied against the government. Alarmed, the Provisional Government called loyalist units to crush this mutiny. Unfortunately for them, Liu's forces quickly took Yinchuan on June 30 and arrested the CCP leadership. Liu then declared himself as Chairman of the People's Republic the same day. However, the Central Military Region, as well as loyalist Northeast troops, denounce him as a warlord. Liu then replied that they the Party loyalists are the warlords.

Fed up by this blusters, some surviving Chinese officials in the Northeast region had contacted the Soviets, and in Xinjiang, an uprising by PLA units opposed both to the PG and Liu and Uyghur guerrillas on the 23rd of August 1983 threw out the PG in Xinjiang and established the East Turkestan Republic. Both Uyghurs and Han share in the government and would later turn to the new USSR for help.

Liu had a problem. Now that Xinjiang is gone, he also discovered that some of the PLA in TIbet had mutinied and joined what he called "that damned monk the Dalai Lama." However, he had to control and stablilize his government. He instituted martial law, used the punitive measures to ensure his control. At this time, the "Liu Dynasty" only controlled Ningxia, Gansu, and Western Inner Mongolia, plus Northeast of Qinghai.

===	New Chinese Order===

While the "Liu Dynasty" controlled most of the Northwest sans Xinjiang, other warlords are spring up in the remains of China. In Anhui for example, a former Chinese general called "Hong" laid the foundations of his "Dragon State." Hundreds of gangs had made Nanchang their turf, the city being spared from the nuclear fire. Still another warlord, an ethnic Mongol named Du Zhi, had created a new Mongol state in eastern Inner Mongolia to fight the "puppet Mongol government in Hohhot and Ulaan Bataar", and considered himself the reincarnation of Genghis Khan. A band of ex-PLA military officers in Manchuria had "re-established" Manchukuo, with a PLA commander claiming to be a distant relative of Pu Yi, the last Emperor of China and Emperor of Manchukuo during the second Sino-Japanese War. In Liu's immediate south, dozens of warlords, many of them petty bandits, set up their own fiefdoms. Liu's task is how to deal with them and how to incorporate them to the Chinese state.

But first, he needed to build infrastructure and credibility.

On a surprising move, he declared that free and democratic elections will be held in 1990 once the situation is over. Next, he decided that Xinjiang and Tibet are lost causes and he admitted that "due to some PLA commanders in Tibet joining the Dalai Lama, and the Uyghur separatists gaining ground, it is impossible to deal with the new Tibet governments now. We now grant them independence for their own good, and my only wish for them is they should still treat China as a friend." Liu wanted Xinjiang and Tibet to become Chinese puppets, though this is not to be. The move is controversial; he crushed a suspected coup from his own junta in 1986, executing them.

Next, he tried to reorganize the Chinese population under his control. Conscription is introduced, rationing is intensified, and a campaign to grow vegetables were a questionable venture; many of the vegetables are mutants.

Seeing that he needed to improve the economy, he then continued the policies of the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. He sent "feelers" to the Siberian government, asking for a restoration of diplomatic relations. The USSR government were suspicious at first, because of the hostility of the Chinese and Russian governments before Doomsday. However, after a controversial move by the USSR's government, the Russians re-opened relations with China on December 2, 1987.

This is a major political coup by Liu, entrenching his authority and legitimacy. However, many Chinese warlords denounced him as a Russian puppet. An alliance of Yangtze warlords, save the Nanchang and the Dragon State, called the Yangtze alliance, declared war against the "Liu Dynasty" on January 8, 1988. Liu knew the day these warlords would one day attack him, and so prepared for this.

He did received some unexpected help. Many surviving PLA officers in eastern North China, including those in the northern Chinese coast, had declared his allegiance to Liu's government. They then had executed the "Second Long March" from the Chinese coast to Ningxia, with some going south to destroy the Yangtze alliance. Liu ordered to leave the Dragon State alone as well and Nanchung for they are not members of the Alliance. Liu sent feelers to both of them but without success.

In a series of brutal encounters, one by one, the leaders of the Yangtze alliance were killed, surrendered, or eventually swore fealty to Liu in a campaign that lasted a two years. The Reunification war was not a true unification; some Southern warlords, not to mention the Dragon State, the Nanchang state, and the Taiwan government were not taken, but for Liu, this is still considered a success.

===	Recent events===

Liu never lived to continue his mission of unifying China. In April 23, 1992, Liu contacted tuberculosis; the rather mediocre state of health services in China meant that his chances of survival are slim. In June 15, 1994, Liu Zhou Ming, the savior of the People's Republic, passed away. He was succeeded by Ren Fang, a close friend of Liu and one of Liu's earliest supporters. Ren later continued the reforms, and initiated the promised elections, delayed from 1990 due to constraints and infighting among the junta in how the government system will be built. Amidst allegations of fraud, Zhang Xiefei became Premier. Ren's position of Chairman became President, and a new Chinese constitution was proclaimed in July 6, 1995.

Ren decided that he needed to resort to diplomacy to co-opt the warlords. So far, only the PLA commanders in the former Eastern Military Region had joined him. He also wants to claim back Xinjiang, thanks to demands of radical generals in his government, but he doesn't want to ruin the already delicate Sino-Russian relations. Some of these radical generals later left the government, went back to the northeast, established a "Chinese Socialist Federated Republic" in Southern Manchuria, after defeating the Manchukuo warlords. However, the Russians were alarmed at the fleeing Manchukuo warlords attacking Russian territory, so the Russians conquered and annexed northern Manchuria that year. Ren, embarrassed about the Soviet incursion into historic Chinese territory, resigned his presidency on October 11, 1995. He was succeeded by Kang Wufei.

Kang Wufei was a more moderate President; he decided that as of this time, the People's Republic's territory will be composed of Western Inner Mongolia, Northeast QInghai, Ningxia, and Shaanxi. The Chinese government planned to include the former North China region and parts of the Eastern Chinese coast by negotiating with former PLA commanders now administering the area as independent entities, but as of today only the Shanxi and Hebei commanders agreed to voluntarily submit to the new People's Republic.

Today, the People's Republic is still challenged by the Nanchang and Dragon State in the Eastern Yangtze region, by the Zhejiang Republic in the former province, and the Khanate of Inner Mongolia in eastern Inner Mongolia. Despite these setbacks, and considerable economic hardship, the People's Republic strives to gain legitimacy to the nations of the world.

===	Contact===

Though the new People's Republic later established relations with the new USSR, information regarding the fate of the People's Republic, a ship of the WCRB landed in the Shandong Peninsula on the 21st of March, 1997. Kang Wufei was informed of this and personally went to the port of Yantai, ignoring the risk of radiation coming from the remains of Qingdao. He then gladly declared that the "People's Republic is still alive." He said that he originally wanted to claim all of China, but reality had reduced them into a strip of Northern China, with a coast and the Shandong Peninsula to spare, he claimed. Kang also asked the WCRB whether the United Nations is still operational, but the WCRB replied that it does not exist anymore. Kang also sent an emissary team to join the WCRB in securing diplomatic relations with the new Chinese People's Republic.

==	Government==

==	Economy==

==	Military==

As of 2010, the People's Liberation Army had 240,000 men, all raised from conscription. It still has the PLA air force and the PLA navy [from the remnants of the North Chinese Fleet], but they are woefully undermanned and their equipment getting too old. The army fared better, but complaints of low pay are the contents of the rumor mill, and indeed, in 2004, the PLA soldier's wages were upped by 10%, if only to stop the soldiers from mutinying. Loyalty of Chinese commanders were also suspect in many occasions, and one Chinese general was executed for planning to overthrow the Yinchuan government.

There are also the People's Armed Police and the Militia for internal security. Though they do a fairly decent job in security, they had a poor reputation in human rights, the government addressing that issue by professionalizing the forces.

Military ranks were restored in 1990. The rank insignia and ranking system remained the same as before 1965 [the year ranks had been abolished]. The President of the People's Republic is automatically also the Supreme Marshal, and Kang wears this uniform in military parades.

==	Foreign Relations==

As of now, relations with China and the USSR are proper but still tense. This stems at the fact that the Soviets attacked China with nuclear weapons. It also had tense relations with states claiming to be the successor state of China. The most serious contenders are the Dragon State, the new Taiwanese government, and the South Manchurian "Chinese Federated Socialist Republic." The People's Republic discourages any nations trying to have diplomatic relations with them, but so far, with little success.

China was later invited to join the League of Nations in 2009. The Chinese government is considering the option. However, there are many in the Chinese public urging the Chinese government not to join the LoN.