China (1991-present) (Stephenverse)

China officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. It has a population exceeding 1.2 billion. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world. With an area of approximately 9.6 million square kilometres (3,700,000 sq mi), it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The national capital is Nanking, and the most populous city and largest financial center is Shanghai.
The Republic was declared on 1 January 1912 after the 1911 Revolution overthrew the Qing dynasty, the last imperial dynasty of China. Sun Yat-sen, its founder and provisional president, served only briefly before handing over the presidency to Yuan Shikai, the leader of the Beiyang Army. Yuan quickly became authoritarian and used his military power to control the administration, which consequently became known as the "Beiyang government." Yuan even attempted to replace the Republic with his own imperial dynasty until popular unrest forced him to back down. When Yuan died 1916, the country fragmented between the various local commanders the Beiyang Army. This began the Warlord Era of decentralized conflicts between rival warlord cliques. The most powerful of these cliques, notably the Zhili and Fengtian cliques, at times used their control of Beijing to assert claims to govern the entire Republic.
World War II devastated China, leading to enormous loss of life and material destruction. Japanese occupation continued until the surrender of Japan at the end of World War II in 1945. In the aftermath of World War II, civil war resumed between the areas liberated by the Republic of China and those liberated by the Communists. The Communist People's Liberation Army managed to defeat the larger and better-armed National Revolutionary Army due to better military tactics and corruption of the ROC leadership. In 1949, the ROC repeatedly moved its capital to avoid the Communist advance—first to Guangzhou, followed by Chongqing, Chengdu, and lastly, Taipei. In October 1949, the CCP proclaimed the People's Republic of China. Remnants of the ROC government would hang on in Mainland China until late 1951. 
In 1990, People's Republic of China falls following a massacure and dissolved in December 1991, and it was replaced with Taiwanese goverment and it was re-became the member of United Nations as the PRC falls. Today, the country is one of the fastest-growing major economies and is the world's largest manufacturer and exporter, as well as the second-largest importer.
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