A different war in 2022

What if China invaded Taiwan instead of Russia attacking Ukraine?
==Timeline==
1962: NASA Mariner 1 goes to Venus. This is a point of divergence by virtue of butterfly effect.
1996: Russia launched a probe to Mars.
2008: Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
2011: Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi is brought into the ICC for trial. 
2012: Russian President Dmitri Medvedev ran for a second term. Xi Jinping became the President of China.
2014: Ukraine goes revolution as OTL. However the Russian response is more restrained; it resulted in a power-sharing deal between Yanukovych and the opposition members. Rise of ISIS and the Ebola outbreak; the latter was more severe and resulted in the development of novel drug treatments.
2015: The New Horizons space probe flew by Pluto. Russia dusted off an old plan to buy Crimea for millions of dollars. A razor thin majority in an Ukrainian national referendum approved this measure. Syria's Assad begins negotiations with opposition after a drawn out civil war.
2016: Jeb Bush was elected as the President, beating Hilary Clinton.
2017: North Korea began to conduct frequent weapons tests. ISIS was defeated.
2018: Moon Jae In was elected as South Korean president.
2019: Protests in Hong Kong and COVID-19 outbreak. The protests in this time were far heavier and grounded its economy into a standstill, while the outbreak became uncontrolled, causing countries to restrict travel to the country. As a result it fell into a deep recession and China begin to distract its population from the woes.
2020: Jeb Bush won the second term. China launched a military crackdown against Hong Kong protesters.
2021: A secret plan is approved by China to invade Taiwan and its territories. North Korea, in concert with China, ramps up rocket tests again while China mobilize troops to the coastline. Through grey area methods such as disinformation, they managed to hoodwink everyone for a short time.
2022: Taiwan is invaded. First its outlying islands is taken over, then Taiwan proper is hit with amphibious invasions. The world then came close to a nuclear war while Russia pleaded for calm..
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