China (Russia Never Expands East)

The Republic of China (Chinese: 中華民國. Zhōnghuá mínguó) also known as China, is a country located in East, Central and North Asia.

China emerged as one of the world's earliest civilizations, in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. For millennia, China's political system was based on hereditary monarchies, or dynasties, beginning with the semi-legendary Xia dynasty in 21st century BCE. Since then, China has expanded, fractured, and re-unified numerous times. In the 3rd century BCE, the Qin reunited core China and established the first Chinese empire. The succeeding Han dynasty, which ruled from 206 BC until 220 AD, saw some of the most advanced technology at that time, including papermaking and the compass, along with agricultural and medical improvements. The invention of gunpowder and movable type in the Tang dynasty (618–907) and Northern Song (960–1127) completed the Four Great Inventions. Tang culture spread widely in Asia, as the new Silk Route brought traders to as far as Mesopotamia and the Horn of Africa. Dynastic rule ended in 1912 with the Xinhai Revolution, when the republic replaced the Qing dynasty.

In 1917, towards the end of World War I, China was again, ravaged by civil war, by communists who fled Russia after a failed communist revolution there, the Chinese Red Army who led triply by Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao and Vladimir Lenin, who would establish the Chinese Administrative Federative Socialist State, or "Red China". Duxiu would lead Red China to establish communist governments in the Central Asian and Siberian territories of the Republic of China, eventually, to form the Eastern Confederation - to which the Chinese AFSS would form the largest socialist state.

The Eastern Confederation played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II with the siege of Tokyo, and emerged as a superpower, and a rival to the United States, having the largest-standing modern military, largest nuclear stockpile and largest missile force in the world, as well as the world's second-largest economy.

Following the dissolution of the Eastern Confederation in 1991, a couple countries emerged: China, Mongolia, East Turkestan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. The Chinese AFSS emerged as the legal successor to the Eastern Confederation, and eventually, the fall of the Communist Party of China in 1992 and the complete takeover of the Kuomintang led to the establishment of the modern-day Republic of China.

China's economy currently constitutes the fourth-largest, and is a member of the United Nations, WTO and a number of global organizations.