Third Chinese Civil War

Location
 Causes

**2105-2111**

 United States
 China

**2117-2126**
 Federal Republic of China
 Wuyue
 Taiwan
 Manchuria
 Hainan
 Macua
 Hong Kong
Shanghai
**2105-2108**

 Guangdong
 Fujian
 Zhuang
 Yunnan

**2117-2126**
 Yangtze
 Jiangxi
 Hunan

**Military Support:**

 Estela La Riva
 Stewart M. Li
 Christopher Reagan
 Miriam Weinstein
 Luis Zepeda
 Miguel Caso
 Joaquín Andrade

The **Third Chinese Civil War** was fought between forces loyal to the United Federation of China (UFC)-led government of the Republic of China, and Separatist factions across China. The civil war began in August 2105, with General Ruan Chengfa declared Independence for Yunnan, and essentially ended when major hostilities ceased in 2126. It can generally be divided into two stages; the first being from 2105 to 2111, and the second being from 2117 to 2126 separated by a period of direct American occupation along China's southern territories. The war was a major turning point in modern Chinese history, with the country dissolving into more than a dozen new states largely divided between North and South sphere's of influence by the United States and Mexico in a lasting political and military standoff that would last until the Third Mexican War.

## Background

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The United Federation of China was the culmination of a decade's of work by the Unity Society of Taiwan and the Social Democratic Alliance in the waning People's Republic, with a little help from American economic and military support to combat the Japanese during the last World War. Formally founded in 2058 the new China looked to have finally gotten over the millenia of cycles of growth, disparity, and revolution that had plagued Chinese civilization since its inception. The Federation shared in the prosperity of the post-war world, its economy bolstered by American investment and the return of its low lying coast-lands after the refreeze that let the Chinese rebuild their greatest cities. The flood had driven millions of Chinese inland, and driven a new kind of cultural revolution that spread the wealth and skills of the richer coastal areas to the poorer inland provinces. When the waters receded, and Shanghai was returned from the seas, the children of those pilgrims to the frontier returned to their parent's cities, and built an economic boom that returned China to its position as the economic heart of Asia, and the second largest economy on Earth.

The prosperity was short lived, as it was for every nation by the end of the 21st Century. The population crisis of the Americans could not compare to that of China. Where the United States began to feel the stings of an inflated workforce made redundant by advances in robotics and automation by the late 2070s, China had been reeling from economic depression for most of the decade. When the gates opened for a new wave of colonists to Mars in 2081, was it any wonder that the Chinese saw the largest transfer of citizens to the American space colonies? Over half a billion people from China flooded to the colonies in the space of 20 years, abandoning their homeland for the promise of a better life in space. For those that stayed behind, a power vacuum was left by the elites that had fled. By 2096, many Chinese leaders sought to adopt the Quantum Economic Model that had freed the colonies from economic disaster. After several pilot programs in Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Nanning, the government began to move forward with plans to be the first nation on Earth to implement the colonial model. Unfortunately for the Chinese, the Mex-American Cold War intervened.

China was America's strongest ally in Asia, and its military was often involved in proxy wars in South-east Asia and the Pacific to counter Mexican sponsored separatists. After the end of the Second Vietnam War, many Chinese soldiers returned home to not only find their economy still devoid of opportunities, but the Federalist government delaying pensions for veterans. The whole situation was a powder keg, and Mexico was quick to exploit it for their own benefit. After making contacts with local regionalists, Mexican operatives quickly established separatists movements from within local Chinese Army regiments. With a little social engineering, all of Southern China was quickly in open revolt against the Federalist government in Beijing.

## Course of the War

### **July Coup**

As the revolts in the South spiraled out of control and the government faced riots in Beijing itself, the Chinese army staged a coup d'état on July 11, 2105. However, the conspirators faced opposition within the army and had no support from the naval forces of China, leading to a short lived Junta that ultimately caused more chaos than it prevented. The coup had only limited authority outside of Beijing, and with the loyalists effectively in a civil war for the capital, the rest of the country began to fall to regionalism.

### **American intervention**

By the end of August 2105, the situation in China had become bad enough to compel President Estela La Riva to order a peace keeping mission to secure international interests in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai with aid from Brazilian, Japanese, and Korean forces who secured regions along the Chinese border.

### **First period of war (2105-2111)**

After a short, but costly civil war, some order began to be restored by 2108 and a provisional republic governed from American-run Shanghai had been propped up. Taiwan and Manchuria were in open rebellion, but not by Mexican sponsored revolutionaries, but revolts from local governments who refused to submit to a government so incapable of keeping the country in one piece.