People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China is the world's third-largest country with the world's greatest population. Historically, China and the kingdom of Korea have for the most part maintained strong ties and alliances, a friendship bolstered by centuries of invasion of both by Japan, most recently in the brutal Second World War. Though having fought alongside the United States through the Second World War, China fell under Communist rule at the conclusion of the Chinese Civil War, and henceforth served as North Korea's sole major ally and an American rival and trade partner for many decades.
However, everything changed in the year 2025, when Xi Jingping was overthrown by a cabal of renegade Chinese politicians and military officers who grew tired of China's continued support of the hermit nation known as North Korea and that the country should be left to die.
== History ==
=== Second Cultural Revolution ===
In 2025, China was the site of what was deemed the "Second Cultural Revolution", though the origins of the event go back years; a Beijing-based cabal of Chinese politicians and military officers known as the "East Asian Coalition" had grown convinced that Xi Jingping's continued support for the hermit nation of North Korea, believing the country should be left to die. The reasoning behind this bold assertion was that Xi Jingping's continued support for North Korea did nothing to lift the hermit nation out of its poor state and that it would better serve China's interests to abandon North Korea to its fate.
From the year 2023 to about 2025, the cabal of renegade military officers and politicians plotted to remove Xi Jingping and everyone loyal to him from power, convinced that Xi Jingping was doing nothing but wasting precious resources to help North Korea out of what they perceived to be a "wasted effort." 
At midnight on New Years Day, 2025, China launched "Operation Spring Elephant", a violent coup against the Chinese government under Xi Jingping. With the help of a Russian PMC known as Konni Group, rogue Chinese special ops soldiers under the command of EAC cabal member Zhāng Wěi assassinated Xi Jingping and took over the Chinese government. Within hours of the assassination, Zhāng Wěi ordered every loyalist of Xi Jingping and all North Korean sympathizers within the Chinese government arrested or executed on trumped up charges of "treason". To further cover his tracks and eliminate loose ends, Zhāng Wěi betrayed Makarov and ordered the termination of all Konni Group members, before publicly announcing that China had experienced a terrorist attack committed by North Korea with the aid of Russia, and that in retaliation China would be permanently ending all relations with the hermit country and gave North Korean ambassadors in China 72 hours to leave the country or face either arrest or execution. Kim Jong-un himself was declared persona non grata in China. 
After all relations with North Korea ceased, the outraged Kim regime demanded an explanation for the abrupt decision, but was met with silence. In a bid to intimidate China, Kim Jong-Un commissioned the Korean People's Army Navy to send its latest submarine Hero Kim Kun Ok on a voyage to the South China Sea with the intention of intimidating and/or pressuring the new Chinese government to reconsider. 
Once inside the South China Sea, the crew of Hero Kim Kun Ok launched an ICBM over China, as a show of force. They then detonated the missile over Shanxi Province, China, triggering an EMP that plunged large areas of the nation and neighboring countries into darkness. The blast radius included the Chinese provinces of Shanxi, Shandong, Heibei, Laoning, Jilin, Jiangsu, Zheijang, Shanxi, Henan, Fujian, and parts of Heilongjiang. The EMP also affected parts of Siberia, and Kyushu, Japan, outraging the Russian and Japanese governments. 
Miraculously, the capital city of Beijing was unaffected. The other cities were not so lucky. 
China retaliated by issuing an ultimatum to North Korea: "Leave us alone, or expect the wrath of the Dragon." 
From 2025 to 2029, North Korea refused to concede, continuing to intimidate China into reconsidering its abandonment of the hermit country. 
Then, in 2026, North Korea executed a cyberattack against the Chinese military that crippled its drone fleet. For China, this was the last straw. The Chinese government quietly mobilized its military for an invasion of North Korea, intending to annex the country and remove Kim Jong-Un from power, in a sudden reversal of its earlier pledge to abandon North Korea. 
China declared war on North Korea in spring of 2029 with the unveiling of its latest weapon: an orbital kinetic bombardment weapons platform codenamed the Oriental Messenger. The satellite weapon was used to execute a series of orbital kinetic bombardments against military bases in North Korea. Intending to cripple the Korean People's Army, the Oriental Messenger targeted Uiju Airfield, Panghyon Airport, Taechon Airfield, Kaech'on Airfield, Pukch'ang Airport, Changjin Air Force Base, Sakkanmol Missile Operating Base, and many others. The Chinese People's Liberation Army immediately followed up this surprise attack with a massive amphibious invasion of North Korea. 
The entire nation of North Korea fell to Chinese military occupation in a matter of days. 
=== World War III ===
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