Idi Amin returns as king of Uganda. Africa s wildlife is totally exterminated. India and China go to war over Tibet, control of resource-rich Burma, their disputed Himalayan border, and the Indian Ocean. China s communist party is replaced by an autocratic nationalist regime that reunites Taiwan. An assertive nationalist government takes power in Tokyo and deploys sea-launched nuclear weapons.
Japan emerges from years of recession as an economic powerhouse.
The surging economies of India, China, Korea and Japan vie for Asia s dwindling resources particularly oil from Indonesia and the Mideast. By 2020, however, a recovered, industrious, united Korea challenges Japan for dominance of North Asia. South China steadily slips away from Beijing s control and is dominated by Singapore. Vietnam again invades Cambodia and threatens Thailand. Chinese settlers infiltrate, then swamp the 25 million Russians in Siberia.