Write an realistic, plausible alternate history scenario set on the world of the alternate history scenario with no references to the real world, OTL, or even to the fact that this is an alternate history scenario after all in the form of a lengthy, descrptive, exposition-filled real documentary history book chapter set in the world of the alternate history scenario, in which the 15 April 1989 – 4 June 1989 Tiananmen Square anti-CCP protests with the goal of End of corruption within the Chinese Communist Party, as well as democratic reforms, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of association, social equality, democratic input on economic reforms and the subsequent massacre conducted by the mainland Chinese military and police forces in Beijing in the de jure Marxist-Leninist, socialist but de facto Han nationalist, Han supremacist, Chinese supremacist, Chinese Imperialist Chinese Communist Party ruled de jure socialist republic but de facto Han nationalist, Han supremacist People's Republic of China ruling [the PRC] over Han China, Guangdong, Guangxi, East Turkestan, Inner and Outer Mongolia, Tibet, Shanxi and Yunnan from [the PRC's stronghold and home base] Greater Manchuria since the CCP won the Chinese Civil War of 1945-1949 against [the CCP's rival for control over China in the Chinese Civil War]  the Han nationalist, Han supremacist, Chinese nationalist, Chinese imperialist, Marxist-Stalinist political party/militant group/secret society of the KMT/Kuomingtang and the joint American-Soviet satellite state the KMT ruled with an iron fist, the Unitary, adhering to Sun Yat Sen's three principles of the people, nationalism, democracy and socialism [social welfare] one-party ruled and dominated directorial republic under a military dictatorship of the Second Republic of China/Nationalist China/National Government of the Republic of China ruling over parts of Han China proper, Central China and Manchuria from [Nationalist China's stronghold in the China region] Guangdong and Guangxi in [when the CCP defeated Nationalist China] 1 October 1949, with the KMT and Nationalist China fleeing to Taiwan and the Pengu Islands and [the KMT and Nationalist China] subsequently establishing a government in exile there [Taiwan and the Pengu Islands] on December 7, 1949, [the 15 April 1989 – 4 June 1989 Tiananmen Square anti-CCP protests in the PRC] snowball into a modern-day incarnation of the 10 October 1911 – 12 February 1912 Xinhai Revolution against the Qing launched [the Xinhai Revolution] by [who launched the Xinhai Revolution] the Han Nationalist, Han supremacist and Han expansionist secret society/political organization/nilitant group Tongmenghui against the Manchu Imperial House of Aisin-Gioro-ruled, Manchu dominated Great Qing Empire ruling [the Great Qing Empire] over Han China, Guangxi, Guangdong, East Turkestan, Tibet, Greater Manchuria and Tuva from [the Great Qing Empire's stronghold and home base] Greater Manchuria, [the Tiananmen Square protests becoming a modern day version of the Xinhai Revolution] with the CCP taking the place of the Imperial House of Aisin-Gioro and the PRC taking the place of the Great Qing Empire in this modern incarnation of the inhai Revolution, and [the Tiananmen Square protests] leads to the fall of the PRC and the subsequent breakaway of Guangdong, Guangxi, East Turkestan, Manchuria, Inner and Outer Mongolia, Tibet, Shanxi and Yunnan from Han China, and the subsequent restoration of the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China as the short-lived Empire of China formed by Yuan Shikai in 1915, with the imperial family of the pre Qing Han Chinese Imperial House of Zhu-ruled Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/"Ming dynasty", the Imperial House of Zhu being [the Imperial House of Zhu] reenthroned [the Imperial House of Zhu] as the Chinese imperial family in the place of Yuan Shikai's descendants due to the influence of the millenianist Chinese folk religious sect focused on militant self-defense and tax resistance along with romanticised monarchism, wishing to restore the pre Qing Han Chinese Imperial House of Zhu-ruled Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/"Ming dynasty" as the government of China, the Yellow Sand Society, which [the Yellow Sand Society] was [the Yellow Sand Society] never suppressed [the Yellow Sand Society] by the CCP in 1980, [the influence of the Yellow Sand Society] being  [the influence of the Yellow Sand Society] quite prevalent  [the influence of the Yellow Sand Society] in  post CCP, post-PRC Han China. 

In post-CCP, post-PRC Tibet, the theocratic Buddhist absolute monarchy of the Lama-ruled Kingdom of Tibet is [the Kingdom of Tibet] restored [the Kingdom of Tibet] as the government of the country [post-PRC, post-CCP Tibet]. 

Central China, more specifically the area ruled by the Hui Muslim warlord family of the Mas as Xibei San Ma during the modern Chinese warlord era, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War also breaks free from Han China, [the former Xibei San Ma] restoring the Turko-Mongol Han Chinese Imperial House of Li-ruled Great Tang Empire/Tang dynasty to power as an Islamic sultanate in the model of the Arab Islamic monarchies, the Ottoman Empire and the pre Russian Empire Mongol Empire successor states in Central Asia.


Yunnan restores the Bai-Han Chinese Imperial House of Duan-ruled Daili Kingdom as its [Yunnan's] government after [Yunnan] breaking free from the CCP and the PRC. 

The side branch of the Genghis Khan-descended Mongolian Imperial House of Borjigin, the Mongolian Imperial House of Chagatai-ruled joint-Islamic sultanate and Mongolian khanate of the Kumul Khanate is [the Kumul Khanate] restored [the Kumul Khanate] as the government of post-CCP, post-PRC East Turkestan. 

In post-CCP, post-PRC Greater Mongolia exclusive of Inner Mongolia's Charhar and Suiyan regions, the spiritual head of the Gelug lineage of Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia also holding the title of Bogd Gegeen, making them the top-ranked lama in Mongolia known as the Jebtsundamba Khutuktu as the Bogd Khan [Holy Emperor]-ruled post-Xinhai, Unitary Buddhist absolute monarchy of the feudal Khanate of the Bogd Khanate of Mongolia/Great Mongolian State is [the Bogd Khanate of Mongolia/Great Mongolian State] restored. 


The restored Empire of China ruling over post-PRC, post-CCP Han China still has the official name of the "People's Republic of China' in English but [the restored Great Ming State] has the Beiyang Government's and the first Republic of China's five coloured flag [the five colored flag] is [the five coloured flag] is [the five colored flag] a banner [the five colored flag] having five horizontal bands of red [Han], yellow [Manchu], blue [Mongol], white [Hui] and black [Tibet] with the Ming Sun and Moon symbol, a white circle with a smaller red circle in the left, [the Ming Sun and Moon symbol], representing [the Ming Sun and Moon symbol] an eclipse, [the Ming Sun and Moon symbol] in the middle [of the modified five coloured flag] as its [the restored Great Ming State's] unofficial national flag. 

A modified version of the Kuomingtang's Blue Sky, White Sun, and a Wholly Red Earth flag becomes its [the restored Ming State's] naval flag, [the restored Great Ming State] replacing the Kuomintang's White Sun with a white-outer rayed, red inner-rayed yellow sun with the Chinese character for "Ming" in the middle of the yellow sun in tribute to the original Ming blue sky and red outer rayed yellow sun flag while the crossed 18-star iron blood flag of the Xinhai Revolution becomes the Chinese army flag.


The Beiyang Government of the Republic of China’s Twelve Symbols national emblem is [the twelve Symbols National Emblem] rechosen [the twelve Symbols national emblem] as the Chinese national emblem, albiet with two crossed 18-star iron blood flags behind the main insigna of the emblem as tribute to the Xinhai Revolution, and a plum blossom/Chinese plum seal akin to the Japanese imperial family's, the Japanese Imperial House of Great Yamato's/the Minamoto dynasty's Chrysanthemum seal is [the plum blossom seal] chosen [the plum blossom seal] as the reinstated Imperial House of Zhu's seal while the peony remains the Chinese national flower.

 The restored Great Ming State also has the first incarnation of the Empire of China's national anthem, "China heroically stands in the Universe", as its [the restored Great Ming State's] national anthem. 


Yuan Shikai's descendants are [Yuan Shikai's descendants] absorbed [Yuan Shikai's descendants] into the reenthroned Imperial House of Zhu via concubine, polygamy, multiple marriages and adoption as a means of forming a unified post-1644 Chinese imperial house and also to prevent any succession claims. The pre-Genghis Khan-descended Mongolian Imperial House of Borjigin-ruled Great Mongol Nation/"Mongol Empire" and its [the Great Mongol Nation's] successor state ruling over much of Siberia, parts of Central Asia, Inner and Outer Manchuria, Han China, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, East Turkestan and Tibet from Greater Mongolia, the Genghis Khan-descended Mongolian Imperial House of Borjigin-ruled Great Yuan Empire/Great Yuan State/Yuan dynasty, [the pre-Mongol Empire and pre-Yuan dynasty] Han Chinese Imperial House of Zhao-ruled Great Song State/Great Song/Empire of the Great Song/"Song dynasty"  and the pre-Manchu Imperial House of Aisin-Gioro-ruled Manchu-dominated Great Qing Empire/Empire of the Great Qing ruling over Han China, Greater Mongolia, Tuva Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, East Turkestan and Tibet from Inner and Outer Mongolia, Ming era [the pre-Mongol Empire, pre-Great Yuan, and pre-Qing] Han Chinese aristocracy, monarchy and nobility is [the pre-Yuan Mongol Empire, pre-Great Yuan, and pre-Qing, Song and Ming era Han Chinese aristocracy, monarchy and nobility] subsequently [the pre-Yuan Mongol Empire, pre-Great Yuan, and pre-Qing, Song and Ming era Han Chinese aristocracy, monarchy and nobility] restored, restructured, readjusted and modified for the modern world of the late 20th century, [the pre-Yuan Mongol Empire, pre-Great Yuan, and pre-Qing Song and Ming era Han Chinese aristocracy, monarchy and nobility] being [the pre-Yuan Mongol Empire, pre-Great Yuan, and pre-Qing Song and Ming era Han Chinese aristocracy, monarchy and nobility] merged [the pre-Yuan Mongol Empire, pre-Great Yuan, and pre-Qing Song and Ming era Han Chinese aristocracy, monarchy and nobility] with the system of peerage Yuan Shikai had [Yuan Shikai] created when he [Yuan Shikai] formed the Empire of China in 1915.

The descendants of the Han Chinese bannerman of the Qing military system turned military dictator and bandit tyrant of Manchuria after the Xinhai Revolution and during the modern period of Chinese warlord history that followed Yuan Shikai's death in 1916, the "Old Marshal" Zhang Zhuolin, who [Zhuolin] was [Zhuolin] leader of the Han Chinese bandit warlord faction of the Fengtian Clique that [the Fengtian Clique] had [the Fengtian Clique] occupied both post-Xinhai, post-Qing Manchuria and the Fengtian Government of the First Republic of China and his [Zhuolin's] more famous son, the infamous "Young Marshall" Zhang Xueliang, who [Xueliang] inherited his [Xueliang's] father's [Xueliang's] positions as both head of state of the Beiyang-ruled ROC and de-facto leader of Manchuria and leader of the Fengtian Clique after his [Zhuolin's] death, [the surviving Zhang descendants] are [the surviving Zhang descendants] also integrated [the surviving Zhang descendants] into the reenthroned Imperial House of Zhu via concubinage, multiple marriages and adoption. 

The CCP is [the CCP] reabsorbed [the CCP] into its [the CCP's] parent political organization, the Han nationalist, Han supremacist, Han fascist conservative political organization adhering to Dr Sun Yat Sen's three principles of the people, nationalism, democracy, and the livelihood of the people (or welfarism) [the Chinese political organization the CCP broke away from], the Young China Party [YCP], which [the YCP] was [the YCP] named [the YCP] after the now- infamous Young Turks in the now long dissolved Turkish Imperial House of Osman-ruled Ottoman Empire, [the YCP] having followed the Han nationalist, Han supremacist, Chinese nationalist, Chinese imperialist, Marxist-Stalinist political party/militant group/secret society of the KMT/Kuomingtang and the joint American-Soviet satellite state the KMT ruled with an iron fist, the Unitary, adhering to Sun Yat Sen's three principles of the people, nationalism, democracy and socialism [social welfare] one-party ruled and dominated directorial republic under a military dictatorship of the Second Republic of China/Nationalist China/National Government of the Republic of China into exile on Taiwan in 1949 after the latter [the KMT and Nationalist China] lost the Chinese Civil War of 1947-1949 to the CCP and what would later become the PRC but [the YCP] returning to Han China after the demise of the CCP and the PRC by request of moderates within the CCP, [the CCP's remerger with the YCP] becoming [the CCP as part of the YCP once more] the YCP's ultra-nationalist left-wing [the CCP as part of the YCP once more] again as the YCP becomes the governing political organization [the YCP] of the Zhu-ruled restored Empire of China ruling over post PRC, post CCP Han China. 


In a reverse of the infamous Northern Expedition launched [the Northern Expedition] by Nationalist China and the KMT under Nationalist China's most infamous Generalissimo, the infamous Chinese warlord who was a puppet of the now-long deceased Soviet dictator Josef Stalin,  Jiang Jieshi, who [Jieshi] was [Jieshi] known as Chiang Kai-Shek outside of Asia, [the Northern Expedition launched by Nationalist China and the KMT under Jieshi/"Chiang"] in [when the Northern Expedition was launched] 1928, the Nationalist Chinese government and the KMT agree [the Nationalist Chinese government and the KMT] to [what the Nationalist Chinese government and the KMT agree |the Nationalist Chinese government and the KMT| to] reunification with the Zhu-ruled restored Empire of China ruling over post PRC, post CCP Han China. 


 The restored Empire of China's restored Bicameral legislative branch consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives, the National Assembly [the restored Empire's of China's restored National Assembly] absorbs National China's unicameral legislature, the Legistative Yuan into itself [the restored Empire's of China's restored National Assembly] with the KMT becoming a part of the political coalition governing the restored Empire of China, Nationalist China's combined land, air and sea combat force, the Republic of China Armed Forces/Chinese National Armed Forces absorbs the still-existing the PRC’s combined ground, aerial, land, and naval combat forces, the People’s Liberation Army,  into itself [the ROCAF] and [the ROCAF] becoming a modern day version [the ROCAF] of [what the ROCAF becomes after |the ROCAF| absorbing the PLA into itself |the ROCAF|] a modern day version of the Great Ming State's combined ground combat force and naval warfare force, the Great Ming Army, [the ROCAF becoming a modern day Great Ming Army after |the ROCAF| absorbing the PLA into itself |the ROCAF|] in the form of a restored version of the Beiyang Government's of the Republic of China's armed wing and the Beiyang Government-ruled first Republic of China's combined ground combat, naval warfare and aerial warfare branch, the Beiyang Army and from November 1928, the National Pacification Army [the ROCAF absorbing the still existing PLA into itself |the ROCAF| and |the ROCAF| subsequently becoming a restored Beiyang Army/National Pacification Army], the PLA's special operation force with an intended rapid-response units in the event of a limited regional war under high-tech conditions, also carrying out Special Operations, counter-terrorism, and intelligence gathering operations both inside and outside of China, the People's Liberation Army Special Operations Forces, [the PLASOF] being [the PLASOF] absorbed [the PLASOF] into the ROCAF's elite special forces unit tasked with carring out special operations, including decaptation strikes in the events of a war, the Airborne Special Service Company, [the PLASOF being |the PLASOF| absorbed |the PLASOF| into the ASSC] the Nationalist Chinese National Police Agency which [the NPA] falls under the Nationalist Chinese Ministry of the Interior and [the NPA] oversees all all police forces within National China on a national level, [the NPA] absorbs the still-existing civilian police of the now-long dissolved PRC, the People's Police into itself [the NPA], [the NPA absorbing the People's Police into itself |the NPA|] and the Chinese People's Armed Police being [the Chinese People's Armed Police] absorbed [the Chinese People's Armed Police] into the National Police Agency's specialist unit and highly trained police tactical unit conducting high-risk arrests and other dangerous law enforcement duties, the Thunder Squad with Nationalist China's principal intelligence agency created to supervise and coordinate all security-related administrative organizations, military agencies and KMT organizations in Taiwan, gathering, International intelligence, Intelligence within the area of People's Republic of China, Intelligence within the area of Taiwan, Analysis of the nation's strategic intelligence, , Scientific and technological intelligence and telecommunications security, Control and development of secret codes (the matrix) and facilities, Armed Forces Internet Security while also taking charge of planning special tasks and is responsible for guiding, coordinating, and supporting the intelligence affairs in military and civil categories in addition to managing intelligence relevant to national security, the National Security Bureau, [the NSB] subsequently [the NSB] absorbing [what the NSB absorbs] the still existing PRC’s bodyguard unit for elite CCP members + domestic secret police agency, the Ministry of State Security, [the NSB absorbing the MSS] into itself [the NSB], [the NSB after |the NSB| absorbing the MSS into itself |the NSB|] becoming [what the NSB becomes after  |the NSB| absorbing the MSS into itself |the NSB|] a modern day version of the Great Ming State's domestic imperial secret police also serving as a personal protection force for the Imperial House of Zhu and an imperial military body with its members serving as political commisars of the Great Ming Army in times of war, with the authority to overrule judicial proceedings in prosecutions with full autonomy in arresting, interrogating and punishing anyone, including nobles and the emperor's relatives and also to overrule judicial proceedings in prosecuting those deemed as enemies of the state, granted with full autonomy in arresting, interrogating, detaining them without trial and punishing them, being bound to the service of the emperor and taking direct orders from him, the Jinyiwei.

Elements of the KMT, ROCAF, ASSC and NSB who refuse to accept the reunification of Nationalist China with the mainland stockpile weapons and gain support from the still-sympathetic American CIA, NSA and US military and the Soviet KGB, GRU and Soviet Armed Forces and [the rouge Nationalist Chinese elements] flee [the rouge Nationalist Chinese elements] to Marxist-Leninist Vietnamese nationalist Communist Party of Vietnam-ruled Socialist Republic of Vietnam in Vietnam, [the rouge Nationalist Chinese elements after fleeing to Vietnam] quickly toppling the Vietnamese Communist Government [the CPV and the SRV] and [the rouge Nationalist Chinese elements after |the rouge Nationalist Chinese elements| fleeing to Vietnam and |the rouge Nationalist Chinese elements| subsequently |the rouge Nationalist Chinese elements| toppling the CPV and the SRV] restoring the Vietnam War era anti-communist, personality, emphasising the good of the community over the good of the individual, spiritualist, Roman Catholic supremacist Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party-ruled Unitary presidential constitutional republic under a military dictatorship  of the Republic of Vietnam that [the Republic of Vietnam] had [the Republic of Vietnam] ruled [the Republic of Vietnam] over South Vietnam from 1955–1975, [the rouge Nationalist Chinese elements restoring the Republic of Vietnam as the government of all of Vietnam after |the rouge Nationalist Chinese elements| fleeing to Vietnam and |the rouge Nationalist Chinese elements| subsequently |the rouge Nationalist Chinese elements| toppling the CPV and the SRV] with the help of  the Vietnamese nationalist, anti-communist, adhering to Dr. Sun Yat Sen's three principles of the people: democracy, nationalism and socialism [social welfare] political organization and militant group Nationalist Party of Greater Vietnam and the Nationalist Party of Greater Vietnam's more moderate counterpart, the democratic socialist, Vietnamese nationalist, Center Left to Center Right, anti-communist, socially conservative, adhering to Dr. Sun Yat Sen's three principles of the people: democracy, nationalism and socialism [social welfare] political organization and militant group of the Vietnamese Nationalist Party. 

The restoration of the Republic of Vietnam as the government [the Republic of Vietnam] of all Vietnam by the rouge Nationalist Chinese elements after their [the rouge Nationalist Chinese elements'] flight and [the rouge Nationalist Chinese elements'] subsequent toppling of the post-1975 CPV-ruled SRV government there [Vietnam] is [the restoration of the ROV as the government of Vietnam by the rouge Nationalist Chinese elements after their |the rouge Nationalist Chinese elements'| toppling of the CPV and SRV in Vietnam] intended [the restoration of the ROV as the government of Vietnam by the rouge Nationalist Chinese elements after their |the rouge Nationalist Chinese elements'| toppling of the CPV and SRV in Vietnam] as a means of building a power base for the eventual restoration of Nationalist Chinese control over not just Han China, but all the other nations that were once part of the Great Qing Empire before the Xinhai Revolution.

But pro-democracy, monarchist and anti Han imperialist and anti-Han nationalist factions of the VNP and NPGV in the restored ROV government secretly join forces with the pro-democracy, anti-PLRP and anti-ROV, anti CPV and anti SRV, reformist liberal, liberal democratic, Vietnamese nationalist, classical pluralist, anti-communist, center to center-right, Vietnam Reform Revolutionary Party, which [the Vietnam Reform Revolutionary Party] had [the Vietnam Reform Revolutionary Party] been [the Vietnam Reform Revolutionary Party] persecuted [the Vietnam Reform Revolutionary Party] by the CPV-ruled SRV government of Vietnam before the putsch launched by the Nationalist Chinese refugees that [the putsch] put the ROV back in power in Vietnam, [pro-democracy, monarchist and anti Han imperialist and anti-Han nationalist factions of the VNP and NPGV in the restored ROV government secretly joining forces with the VRRP] and [the moderate factions within the VNP and NPGV with the secret aid of the VRRP] manage  [the moderate factions within the VNP and NPGV with the secret aid of the VRRP] to  [the moderate factions within the VNP and NPGV with the secret aid of the VRRP] seize power  [the moderate factions within the VNP and NPGV with the secret aid of the VRRP] in the restored ROV,  [the moderate factions within the VNP and NPGV with the secret aid of the VRRP after seizing power] restoring the nativized Vietnamized side branch of the pre-1644, pre-Qing Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire's/"Ming dynasty"'s imperial family, the Han Chinese Imperial House of Zhu, the Vietnamese Imperial House of Ngyuen/Ngyuen dynasty-ruled continuation/modernization/Government in exile of the Great Ming State, the Empire of Vietnam as the government of Vietnam. 

This restored Empire of Vietnam continues to utilize the republican governmental, legal and military frameworks set by the PLRP-ruled ROV and CPV-ruled SRV in Vietnam after 1955, fly the ROV's yellow banner with three red horizontal bands separate from each other in the center as its [the restored Empire of Vietnam's] national flag and [the restored Empire of Vietnam] use the name "Republic of Vietnam" in English. A VNP, NPGV and VRRP coalition governs it [the restored Empire of Vietnam] and the massive military, industrial, high technological and even nuclear technology brought over by the rouge Nationalist Chinese elements is used to strengthen and develop the nation [the restored Empire of Vietnam], making it [the restored Empire of Vietnam] the strongest power [the restored Empire of Vietnam] in Indochina and a major power [the restored Empire of Vietnam] in Southeast Asia. 

Despite the toppling of the CPV-ruled SPV and the subsequent restoration of the PLRP-ruled ROV as the government of the nation [Vietnam] before the replacement of that [the PLRP-ruled ROV] with the restoration of the Vietnamese monarchy [the Ngyuen dynasty and the Empire of Vietnam], Vietnam still [Vietnam] retains control over its [Vietnam's] post-1975 satellite states:  the Marxist-Leninst Lao People Revolutionary Party-ruled communist dictatorship Lao Democratic People's Republic occupying Laos and the House of Norodom-ruled Kingdom of Cambodia in Cambodia, although the LPRP-ruled LDPR is [the LPRP-ruled LDPR] dissolved [the LPRP-ruled LDPR] and the Laotian Khun Lo dynasty-ruled Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy under a military dictatorship of the Kingdom of Laos is [the Kingdom of Laos] restored [the Kingdom of Laos] as the government [the Kingdom of Laos] of Laos by the Vietnamese after the restoration of the monarchy [the Imperial House of Ngyuen and the Empire of Vietnam] in Vietnam.

Japan, which [Japan] continued on its [Japan’s] post-WW2 growth towards [Japan] becoming a political, economic, military and cultural superpower [Japan], [Japan] never experiencing “the Lost Decade” and or the Plaza Accords or any slump in growth and development in the late 1990s and 2010s, [Japan] Taiwan and the Pengu Islands as a province [of Japan] in a repeat of the return of Okinawa in 1972 to Japanese control sometime after the restoration of the monarchy [the Imperial House of Zhu and the Great Ming State] in Han China due to  the Han nationalist, Han supremacist, Chinese nationalist, Chinese supremacist Leninist-Stalinist Kuomingtang-ruled Nationalist China, which [Nationalist China] had [Nationalist China] previously [Nationalist China] been in exile on Taiwan and the Pengu Islands after [Nationalist China] losing control of mainland China to the CCP and what would become the PRC in the Chinese Civil War of 1947-1949, [Nationalist China] essentially being [Nationalist China] useless to both the USA and the USSR after the demise of the PRC and the subsequent return of the monarchy [the Imperial House of Zhu and the Great Ming State] in Han China, with Japan subsequently restoring the Japanese province on Formosa on Taiwan and the Pengu Islands after their [Taiwan and the Pengu Island's] return to Japanese control. 

In order to get money to prop up the failing Soviet economy and also as a unimplied non-aggression treaty, the Soviets also return Sahlakin and the Kurils to Japan, with the Japanese subsequently restoring the Japanese province of Karufuto on Sahlakin and the Kuril Islands. 

After pro-democracy, anti-military dictatorship protests in the joint US-PRC puppet state of the totalitarian military dictatorship of the Republic of Korea occupying South Korea spread to the Soviet satellite dictatorship of the Korean nationalist, Korean supremacist, Leninist-Stalinist Worker's Party of Korea-ruled totalitarian communist dictatorship of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea occupying North Korea, [the protests in the ROK spreading to the DPRK] toppling both post-WW2 Korean regimes [the DPRK and ROK], the Soviets and Americans jointly agree to return all of the Korean peninsula to Japan in a repeat of the Taiwanese and Okinawan situations.

After the return of the entire Korean peninsula to Japan, the Japanese restore the Japanese province of  Chōsen on the Korean peninsula. 

Japan also [Japan] restores its [Japan's] pre-WW2 and [Japan's] WW2-era imperial era protectorates of the Qing Imperial family, the Manchu House of Aisin-Gioro-ruled Empire of Manchukuo in Manchuria and the Genghis Khan-descended Imperial House of Borjigin-ruled Mongolian Autonomous Federation/Mengjiang in Inner Mongolia's Chahar and Suiyan regions, with Manchukuo and Mengjiang immediately [Manchukuo and Mengjiang] returning [Manchukuo and Mengjiang] to  [Manchukuo and Mengjiang] being Japanese protectorates [Manchukuo and Mengjiang]. 

Japan, The Beiyang Government-ruled First Republic of China as an restored Yuan Shikai-formed Empire of China ruled by the surviving descendants of the Imperial House of Zhu as the Chinese imperial family instead of Yuan Shikai's descendants ruling over post-CCP, post-PRC Han China, the post-CCP, post-PRC restored Manchukuo, the post-CCP, post-PRC restored Mengjiang, the post-CCP, post-PRC restored Kingdom of Tibet, the post-CCP, post-PRC restored Kumul Khanate and the post-CCP, post-PRC restored Great Mongolian State/Bogd Khanate of Mongolia form the East Asian Association after the dissolution of the communist military dictatorship of the USSR and the subsequent end of the Cold War between the USSR and the USA in 1991 as a northern counterpart and contemporary version of ASEAN, with the post-CCP, post-PRC restored Daili Kingdom and the Cantonian Federation [a union of Guangxi and Guangdong] joining ASEAN.