China War

Formerly the People’s Republic of China, the current China is broken and twisted to a shadow of its former self by the Vannai invasion of Earth . With most of its population decimated and old government completely dissolved, China has regressed to an era of warlords and mutual agreements of peace.
However, everything changed after Operation CCS Destruction. With the Vannai threat that boxed the people of China gone, China once again faces turmoil, and the embers of war again reignited as factions jostle for power and influence.
==Geography==
Having been pushed to the borders, humanity has been setting up territories that are more defensible against Superforts. However, this has led to a complete fall of humanity in the heartlands of China, making resources and land scarce.
This has influenced much of China's military tactics. This manifest primarily on the use of melee of recoverable throwing weapons, as most believe that ammo is too scarce to be wasted on Superforts. Furthermore, this also means that most factions rely heavily on manpower, often taking heavy casualties after operations.
==Factions==
===Survivalists Coalition (幸存者联盟)===
 Also see: Chang, Beng, Huang, Luo, Che 
The first of the coalitions to realize the hibernation of the Superforts were the Survivalists. Disillusioned by the CCP’s ineffectiveness during the invasion, these people have chosen to believe in their own abilities and their connection to their native land to evade and survive the Superforts.
While most of the Survivalists are peasant militia that live off the land, they are led by virtuous and pragmatic Chang (苍) faction. Espousing the ideals of taking back the land for the people, the Chang are made up by a small army of suit pilots and their support crew. Battle-hardened to the level of the infamous GI, they are currently seeking to reclaim the city of Beijing as their base of operations and to use the resources left to once again regain Chinese independence.
While the survivalists are a coalition, most factions under the flag listen to the progenitor of the Chang faction, Chang Jian (苍健), a former PLA pilot sergeant who deserted with his platoon after a disagreement with his commanding officer. Known for his daring and heroic skirmishes, he was the first to enter Beijing since the Great Hibernation, and has sworn to turn this land into a home once more.
Under the Chang are other pilot-led factions such as the Beng (泵), Huang (煌), Luo (洛), and Che (策).
The Survivalists represent the single greatest military force in China, with the largest number of suit pilots. However, the coalition grew out of a need to band together against the threat of roaming Superforts. With the Great Hibernation, it seems that allegiances might shift once more.
After the Che Wedding Massacre, the Che were taken over by the Axe Gang Bandits, while the Chang, having lost both its leader and heir, was absorbed into the Beng, leaving on the Luo, Huang, and Beng factions to remain in the Coalition.
The Coalition has dissolved after the nuking of the Beijing. With the Beng destroyed, tensions and disagreements between the two remaining warlords, Warlord Luo and Warlord Huang, increased to the point that further collaboration is impossible, turning the two factions into independent factions.
After Operation 4, with Warlord Luo's death, Warlord Huang is the final warlord left alive out of the initial five.
Chang Flag.png|Flag of the Chang
Beng Flag.png|Flag of the Beng
Che Flag.png|Flag of the Che
Huang Flag.png|Flag of the Huang
Luo Flag.png|Flag of the Luo
===Neo Liberation Army (新式人民解放军)===
 Also see: Neo Liberation Army 
With their frontlines in the heartlands utterly crushed, the PLA continued to tactically retreat towards the coast, bleeding morale, talent, and resources constantly.
With no choice left, the PLA retreated to Hong Kong, and ceded its remaining resources and manpower, along with the command to Grand General Zau Yi of the Hong Kong defense forces, turning Hong Kong into a powerful faction that existed independently without help from the growing Armor Corps and Survivalist Coalition. This merging of the PLA and Hong Kong as well as its expansion fo territory beyond Hong Kong prompted the changing of their name to the Neo Liberation Army.
After being publicly disgraced by Hanse pilot Lyn Wong, Zau Yi passed on the title and position of Grand General to Liu Xiao Jiu, disappearing into Bandit territory to continue his one-man crusade of protecting his homeland of Hong Kong.
===Iron Army (铁甲联军, literally Armor Alliance Corps) ===
 Also see: Iron Army
The Iron Army is a faction born of Taiwan before the Great Hibernation. While technically separate from the Armor Corps Coalition, the Iron Army nonetheless heavily relies on them for supplies and defense. In exchange, they act as the ACC's information hub in Asia, and their staging grounds if need be.
The current High Officer of the Iron Army is the former politician An Guo (安国), a non-suit pilot chosen by the ACC to handle administrative and military matters in the Iron Army’s territories of control.
Quiet and humble, An Guo is a man who loves his people, and is thankful for the ACC’s support in ensuring that his lands stood mostly unmolested by the Vannai threat. He is loyal to the ACC, and will take actions that he believes is the best for both the Iron Army and the ACC, even if the ACC would disapprove initially.
Currently, due to actions of the ACMP pilot Chad Dudley, as well as all the pilots' less wise actions beforehand, the Iron Army denounced the ACC and declared independence, becoming a faction of their own.
===Axe Gang Bandits===
 Also see: Axe Gang Bandits 
A bandit alliance led by the bandit queen, Han Nu (韩努). It is revealed the Han Nu is actually Shi-er (史儿), one of the only few survivors of the GI cell that was in China during the Human-Vannai war. She has long been corrupted by the despair of losing her unit, and has tried to recreate her former comrades through torture and indoctrination.
The Axe Gang Bandits are trained in GI guerilla tactics, but without the moral and ethical focus. This results in the use of powerful terror tactics, allowing them to fight toe to toe to even a Survivalist Coalition faction.
Currently, their numbers are bolstered by the former Che army remnants. Using them as meatshields in horde tactics, they are poised to strike even more fear into any opposing army.
After the Long Shadow incident, the faction is largely defunct due to the death of Shi-er, with the former Revenants/pilots becoming refugees at ARHK.
===Lotus of Rebellion (革命莲花)===
 Also see: Lotus of Rebellion 
Made up of veterans and civilians disillusioned with the Coalition, this guerilla movement is decentralised, rising naturally from within the territories and ranks of the all the Chinese factions. Lacking a leader, doctrine, or even a unified methodolgy, these rebellious men and women share the same ideal: to retake power away from the suit pilots.
Believing that the alien influences of suit technology are to blame for the power inequality and the constant conflict, they poise themselves to depose and destroy the power structure that built itself up from these technologies. With the tyrannic Beng destroyed during the nuking of Beijing, the Lotus seeks to reorganize itself, but is struggling to do so due to its decentralized nature and many ideologies. 
The nuking of Beijing and the battle with the Long Shadow continued to dwindle the Lotus in terms of their manpower and their leadership. Currently, most of the former Lotus have now been absorbed by the surviving factions, making the Lotus movement largely defunct.
===Japan-EuF Alliance===
 Also see: The Empire of Japan, The European Federation
After the nuking of Beijing, the Empire of Japan and the European Federation started to worry about more nuclear weapons falling into the hands of factions that would use them against their own countries. Banding together, these two factions agreed to start sending forces into China to stabilize the region by themselves.
While their combined presence is still minimal, it can be expected that this alliance will be extremely effective in their goals, which brings them to potential conflict with almost all of the factions in China, as well as the ACC, who would not benefit if these two less-than-friendly factions took control of China.
Dubbed "The Foreigners" by the local Chinese peoples, the EuF and Japan have now started to capture territory around the Bohai sea, and most notably the still standing areas of Beijing, thus securing both an air and sea route to further reinforce in preparation of their expansion efforts into China.
After a bloody retreating skirmish with the Huang, the EuF has chosen to fully withdraw from China, having achieved two major goals - the salvaging and capture of multiple Superfort corpses, and the ACC's loss of territory in China (even though they had no hand in that). Returning as heroes, the EuF can be said to be the faction that benefitted the most from The Great Hibernation.
Takamitsu Nakagawa.png|Takamitsu Nakagawa (Japan)
Kazumi Kanemaru.png|Kazumi Kanemaru (Japan)
Elias Gustavsson.png|Elias Gustavsson (EuF)
Emilia Kruger.png|Emilia Krüger (EuF)
==Timeline==
===Operation 1: Retake the Forbidden City===
A mission given to the Iron Army by the Survivalist Coalition. Pilots were tasked with destroying a Superfortress designated DRAGON (统恶绝命天龙) located in the airspac eabove the Forbidden City as the Coalition attacked the two other Superfortresses in Beijing. The operation was a success with the destruction of DRAGON and the success of the Coalition securing Beijing. 
However, the pilots also found the Imperial Seal of China within DRAGON, with everyone coming to a consensus to keep it secret. It is currently in the hands of the pilot, Lyn Wong.
===Operation 2: Protect the Supply Train===
A mission given to the Iron Army by the Survivalist Coalition. Pilots were tasked to protect a supply train travelling from northern Coalition territory into Beijing, which was running out of precious supplies in order to maintain an encampment. The operation ended with a success when the pilots managed to temporarily disable the Quadruped.
With the Quadruped severely damaged, Chang Jian's son, Chang Xing (苍星) was able to lead a small contingent of men and finish it once and for all. This secured supply routes to Beijing, allowing the Coalition to expand further into the heartlands.
===Event 1: Che Wedding Massacre===
After Operation 2, the ACC was invited to a Che-Chang wedding ceremony but instead found themselves in a situation were most of the Che family and Chang Xing, son of Chang Jian, were assassinated. Deducing that there were two separate murders and the perpetrators are Che Mu Xin (the bride), and the NLA, the pilots eventually had to escape quickly when chaos descended due to the Axe Gang Bandit's broadcast of the entire event to China.
Leveraging the feelings of hatred towards warlords and their petty politics, the Axe Gang Bandits successfully caused multiple rebellions, and plunge China into further chaos.
===Operation 3: Cover the Luo Retreat===
With the Axe Gang Bandits leading the former Che soldiers, the Luo were under the threat of annihilation. However, the leader of the Luo, Luo Bai He, ordered that not a single civilian be left behind to the oncoming horde. The Iron Army was requested to aid in this retreat, and the operation was a success.
With the Bandits pincered by the NLA and the Huang, they are essentially now in a deadlock. Another threat, the Lotus of Rebellion, makes themselves known as well.
===Event 2: Cascade of Treaties and the Reveal===
=====Also see: NLA-ARHK Meeting and NLA-IA/ACC Summit=====
In a series of negotiations between the NLA, led by Zau Yi, and the ACC, IA, and ARHK, an alliance was formed between the ACC and the NLA. In this alliance, Fujian became a piece of shared territory, with a jointly-run base and joint-effort factory being built in Fujian.
However, after the alliance is formed, Lyn Wong revealed the imperial seal in a public broadcast as well as accusing Zau of being manipulative and scheming. The broadcast however focused on the ACC's willingness to continue their alliance with the NLA, citing peace as the final goal. While this increased ACC's general reputation and standing in CHina, Zau Yi quickly fled the NLA, and is now in whereabouts unknown.
===Solo Event 1: Jeanne's Nuking of Beijing===
During a Bandit raid on the Luo, Warlord Luo tasked ACC pilot Jeanne to scout out and destroy Bandits in an unidentified bunker to prevent additional weaponry falling into the wrong hands. While Jeanne succeeded in this endeavor, she soon found out that the bunker was a launch site for a MRBM nuclear warhead. 
Jeanne chose to fire this at Beijing, the capital of the Beng at the time, killing at least 4 million and destroying the Beng as a faction. She then tried to place the blame on the Bandits. This backfired when one of the Bandits she killed was found to have an active communications device, and broadcasted the entire audio transcript of the situation. The Bandits used this to sow distrust and blame towards the Luo, which ultimately resulted in the dissolution of the Coalition, leaving the Luo in an extremely vulnerable state from both within and without.
Furthermore, the utilization of a nuke has also attracted the attention of both Japan and the EuF, which has started their own operations to stabilize the region of China, as a form of preemptive defense should the nuclear situation goes out of control and outside the borders of China.
===Operation 4: Subjugate the Luo!===
Under the orders of the Iron Army, pilots of the ACC attacked the vastly weakened Luo in an attempt to take the territory Xinjiang as well as their manpower and resources. The mission was a major success, with the Iron Army casualties being mostly their autonomous Tactical Dolls. The Luo lost all of their pilot generals as well as over 50% of their army.
In the wake of the mission, Warlord Luo was found to have already died of injuries sustained from a previous battle with the Axe Gang Bandits. In a dying message, he revealed his intentions for his faction to fall to ACC rule, as he believed, until the end, that the ACC was the best chance for his people. 
As a result, with the more disagreeing generals dead and the people convinced by the warlord's final words, Xinjiang fell to ACC rule without much resistance.
===Operation 5: Hidden in the Forest===
The Iron Army, working with Lotus members of the Heaven Sect, attacked the key manufacturing plants of the Axe Gang Bandits. The operation succeeded, leading in a massive decrease in the Axe Gang's capacity to wage war in the future.
However, this led to Shi-er leaking the conversations between Chad Dudley and Han Nu, where the death of An Guo was promised in return for the loyalty of the Axe Gang. Finally pushing An Guo over the edge, this led to the independence of the Iron Army as well as the withdrawal of the ACC from China as a whole.
However, some in the ACC eventually wanted to at least make up for the mistakes they did during their occupation, and created the Task Force RETRY, who are tasked with trying to help China as much as they could. This coincided with the mysterious disappearance of the Revenants, as well as reports that some Superforts were awakening from The Great Hibernation.
===Final Arc: Task Force RETRY===
After being officially ejected out of China, the ACC reattempted their efforts by forming Task Force RETRY, led by GIMD Warden Vega Atencio. Starting off with helping the local villages near their drop zone of Yunnan, the pilots eventually catch onto hints of the Gigafortress Long Shadow. Slowly gaining allies through negotiations, rightful actions, and a show of sincerity, the ACC was eventually able to unite the Lotus, Huang, and NLA to fight against the Long Shadow.
The campaign eventually ended in a victory, with the Task Force being credited with a large part of the merit despite their comparatively tiny participants. With China more stabilized and cooperative, the ACC was granted an embassy in Yunnan, serving as their new official link to both the Huang and the NLA. However, threats such as the remaining Vannai Puppets, the Iron Army, and Japan continue to linger across the horizon.
===Ceasefire===
Following the battle against the Gigafort Long Shadow, a short pause in hostilities took place as the various factions that participated in the climactic battle settled in to lick their wounds. The Japanese, with which ACC had failed to attain any sort of conclusive negotiations, used the opportunity to amass forces on the Korean Peninsula and prepare for to push into Huang Kingdom territory.
===The Mainland Campaign===
In August, Japan's expeditionary forces launched an attack against a major city held by the Huang Kingdom. The Battle of Mudanjiang resulted in the Huang successfully holding the city, forcing the Japanese to reevaluate their tactics and how committed they actually were to invading the mainland. Although Japan’s involvement in the war was initially spurned by the threat of nuclear weapons being used, continued involvement in the war proved to be highly unpopular with the Japanese civilian population, and the war effort itself was an unwelcome strain on Japan’s economy, which was still recovering from the Engineers' mismanagement. The Imperial Army became anxious that a more serious commitment to the war, which would require sending actual Japanese troops into actual combat, would be pushing public opinion too far. This resulted in the Army placing further reliance on the Imperial Science Academy to provide frontline manning. Major Nakagawa subsequently reorganized the ISA around the Korean peninsula and accelerated WBO production. For the next nine months, the ISA would continue to wage a grueling war against the Huang Kingdom using mass-produced ground troops, eventually capturing most of eastern China at the cost of tens of thousands of lives. In the meantime, figures in the NLA had begun to advocate military operations to regain control of Tibet, and expansion south-east. Chinese forces crossed over the Himalayas through Yunnan and established the Subcontinental Exclusion Zone, beginning the long process of decontaminating the region and clearing it of RACs and similar monstrosities.
In May 2021, two things happened. Frustrated with Liu Xiao Jiu's liberal policies, Maoist officers lead by General Yuan Heqi in the NLA staged a successful coup against the Grand General, running her out of the country and adopting a more aggressive stance towards other powers in the region. In addition, Major Takamitsu gained custody of the former warlord Che En Lin and placed her in charge of the territory captured by the Imperial Army. The territory was reformed into the Dōngběi Empire, allowing Japan to transfer responsibility of continuing the war against the Huang Kingdom and withdraw back to Chōsen, setting sights on the island of Taiwan.
China (Operation 1).png|State of China After Operation 1 (October 2019)
China (Operation 2).png|State of China after Operation 2 (October 2019)
China (Phase 4).png|State of China after Event 1 (October 2019)
China (Phase 5).png|State of China after Operation 3 (November 2019)
China (Phase 6).png|State of China after Event 2 (December 2019)
China (Phase 7).png|State of China after Operation 4 (January 2020)
China (Phase 8).png|State of China after the Long Shadow Campaign (August 2020)
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