Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-4923787-20130202175501/@comment-4923787-20130730015146

I have a couple other things;

Say Russia decides to hold onto Alaska, via perhaps earlier discovery of resources such as gold, and the Revolution takes place. Could a Taiwan-style retreat occur? Assuming that some members of the royal family survive and flee to Alaska, could it be possible for a restoration? If the Whites don't allow that, could this be possible if Russia remained a monarchy?

When would the earliest divergence have to take place in order to allow the Chinese a victory in a war involving modernized foreing powers around 1895?

And say that in a TL, China holds on to outer Manchuria, what would happen to Sakhalin?

I know that might sound stupid, but it would seem a bit odd, and look it, too, if China, Russia, or Japan took the island. Would it be possible to have it jointly controlled by all three, like the New Hebrides, due to conflicting interests? And than it could be independent after some time?