China

China, officially Republic Of China is a country in East Asia, inhabited by more than 1.4 billion people. It's capital city is Beijing, while the most populous city is Shanghai. China borders Vietnam, Laos, Burma, India, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Mongolia and Korea.
Previously a country divided into two states - the People's Republic of China also known as Mainland China, and Taiwan. Since the Third World War's end, China is united once again, ruled by Kuomintang, the Chinese Nationalist Party.
==History==
===Pre 20th century===
China was one of the oldest still existing civilizations on Earth. As the world kept evolving however, China having cut itself off from the world over the previous few centuries, by the Qing Dynasty has fallen behind other countries in technology, and was helpless to stop colonizing Europeans, who started to establish their influence in China by the time the colonial period rolled around.
===20th century===
In the 20th century, China dissolved into a chaotic mess, ruled over by various warlords, most importantly the Nationalists, and the Communists. Their infighting lasted from 1927 to 1947; this civil war was won by the Communist Chinese, led by Mao Zedong, who turned China into a communist dictatorship. Landlords and the rich were brutalized, abused, imprisoned, tormented and killed. In paintings, powerlines and factories replaced trees and waterfalls. Thousands if not more died, and many more were put through torture, inhuman labour camps, brainwashing and psychological manipulation. Countless treasures of pre-Communist Chinese culture were burned or destroyed, and many innocent people perished in a great faminy. In the meantime, the Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-shek fled to the island of Taiwan and set up their new capital city in Taipei, forming a separate country called Taiwan.
At first, Mao's China was allied with the Soviet Union, until the Sino-Soviet split. Communist China grew to be a dangerous and powerful state, feared by NATO - maybe not as much as the Soviets, but still, a power to be on the lookout for, especially after 1976, when China underwent market economy reforms under Deng Xiaoping, and experienced rapid economic growth, which overshadowed the progress made by Taiwan.
===Third World War===
thumb|250px|Chinese army preparing for the Third World WarIn 1984, premier Yuri Andropov of the Soviet Union passed away, and as usual, a new premier was chosen; Aleksander Vitalevich Rukov, one of Joseph Stalin's most trusted allies. From 1987 to 1989, Aleksander promised the socialist countries of the world a beautiful vision - a socialist world; a global socialist state, and the only catch to fulfilling this dream was to band all together just this once. All the communist countries agreed, including China; something which shocked even Aleksander himself. Little did he know, that China had plans for him. They never really did forgive the Soviets, and wanted to steer the war in their favor behind the backs of the Soviet Union.
As the war begun, nervous of the prospect of a highly skilled Spetsnaz operative called Yuri Semashkoshov being used against them in the future, the Chinese suggested that the Soviets should go back to Afghanistan and re-take it; Aleksander admitted that this sounds like a plan worth putting into action, and dispatched Yuri alongside the 127th Machine-Gun Artillery Division to Afghanistan. This was the Chinese assassination attempt on him - the country was too well guarded, and Mujahideen nearly killed Yuri, but he managed to escape the country, and even find documents containing valuable information in Afghanistan.
Chinese forces invaded both United States (mostly as support for the Soviet forces), and Asia, especially Japan, a country they detested for quite a long time. In Japan, they found out about the Mishima Corporation, a company developing high-end technology, including military equipment; they desired to steal their weapon blueprints and patents from them, and produce their experimental weaponry to gain an upper hand against the NATO forces and eventually, their so-called Allies. An American soldier known as Martin MacDonald stopped their invasion, rescued Shigeru Mishima, and the blueprints of Mishima Corporation were locked away in a secret NATO compound. They later tried to kill Martin MacDonald] in the Kalinigrad Oblast after he foiled their Mishima debacle, and against the knowledge of the Soviets, they planted a bomb in the base, destroying it.
Later on, the Chinese tricked NATO into attacking Yugoslavian weapon storages via an annonymous tip. The Chinese wanted NATO to attack the already paranoid and jumpy Yugoslavia that day, so that they'll have enough time to finish their most powerful weapon - the most powerful Dongfeng ICBM yet devised by the heads of the Chinese nuclear programme, mostly the general of the Second Artillery Corps, Egg Fu. French agent, Nicolas Alceste was sent to China to destroy this weapon - and succeeded, much to the shock of the Chinese.
In January 1991, a failed mission in Romania made the Soviets put all the clues together - they realized that the Chinese were rusing them and manipulating some of the operations behind the scenes. Thus, Yuri was send to the top secret Chinese PLA base in Tibet, where he killed the remaining PLA army leadership, crippling China and forcing it to bail out of the war.
===Oh bother...===
thumb|250px|Lee Teng-hui, dirst Chinese head of state after the warAfter the Third World War ended in a fiasco for China, the once thought unstoppable giant started to crumble; they bunkered down, president Shangkun and Jiang Zemin growing paranoid and fearing the incoming NATO invasion - they came for the Soviets, so they must come for them next! But... they never did. The bunkered-down Chinese People's Republic begun cracking and spiraling into a economic crisis; military was heavily drained out and tired, and many politicians detested Shangkun and Zemin for agreeing to ally their country with the Soviet Union, resulting in their downfall. Civil unrest rose in the next months of 1991, and by 1992, the country broke down into chaos. The military was revolting, crime was running rampant, and the government refused to do anything; People's Republic Of China turned into complete anarchy.
Taiwan's government used this to their advantage, and via a CIA-supported leaflet dropping campaing sparked further unrest, and growing support for the return of Republic Of China. In December of 1991, president Shangkun stepped down, and the Chinese Communist Party knew it's over - sure, in the past it could, and would, abuse rebelling citizens, but it couldn't fight THIS amount of anarchy! The government was eventually toppled by the Chinese military itself, in ranks of which, after the lost war, a newly-born nationalistic fanaticism and sentiment for Chiang Kai-shek was born; soon enough, the military junta government offered to give the government to the Taiwanese Kuomintang. On the 6th of April, 1992, Chinese red flag was lowered, and in it's place, the banner of Kuomintang flew high. Republic of China was born, under the new President of China, Lee Teng-hui.
Most Chinese accepted the new government, especially when many CCP members were put on trial and many sentenced for corruption and abuse of Chinese citizens. In the nineties, under Kuomintang, many Chinese could experience freedom for the first time. Museums and exhibits were opened, exposing the crimes of the CCP and facts previously censored by the regime. Republic of China re-established contact with Western nations such as the United States and United Kingdom, much to rejoicing of many Chinese-Americans, who fled their country to escape communism years ago, the event of new government establishing forever going down as a unofficial holiday for many of them.
==Description==
thumb|250px|China in the eightiesUnder Chairman Mao, China was a hellhole; a monstrous country where millions died and suffered; as time went on, and reforms were initiated, China's economy straightened out. While on the surface, China presented itself as more civilized than the Soviet Union, in reality, it still was a communist dictatorship, constantly scheming how to conquer Taiwan, or other countries, spying on it's citizens, with any protests being crushed with no mercy via threads of tanks, and constantly working on their nuclear arsenal.
==Army==
thumb|250px|Some examples of the Chinese motor pool during the Third World WarSomebody in Area 51 once joked that one of it's scientists had more chins than a Chinese phone book - indeed, China has a massive manpower, that during the Third World War was only rivaled by the Soviet Union. Chinese Infantry, usually armed with locally-produced copies of Soviet weaponry, was inexhaustible - only the Soviets had more men to send to the grinder. The People's Liberation Army was a capital "M" menace to anyone they met, with their fanatic patriotism, iron will... and titanic manpower! During the Third World War, China also used infantrymen clad in Soviet leased heavy armor, and had several Soviet-trained Red Juggernauts loyal to them.
People's Libteration Army used various vehicles, including the Type 59 and Type 80/88 battle tanks, Type 62 and Type 63 light tanks, Type 58 tanks, Type 86 IFVs derived from the Soviet BMP-1, Type 77 APCs, and much much more.
==Appearances==
*Reds Over World
==Trivia==
*Originally, Reds Over World was to feature a mission in which China bombs Taiwan using a nuke; the player would witness the nuclear explosion first-hand, and would have to duck into the city's sewers, and fight the Chinese inside the sewer system.
*Early on in 2021 Reds Over World was to feature the motive of the Uyghur genocide and the player freeing Uyghurs from a re-education camp - until the author realized that it would be an anachronism.
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