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Flag of Ma Clique

The **Ma Clique,** AKA **The Royalist Faction** is one of the Chinese Claimant states located in East Asia. It is an islamic absolute monarchy based off of the Arabian government in the Middle East as the two share similar ideals of a new Islamic power, it of course is ruled by the Ma Dynasty. The Ma Clique has fought several wars against its neighbors of Tibet and Mongolia over the west of East Asia. The Ma Clique formed in the initial collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1912. After the new collapse in 1945 the Ma Clique is now the only faction in favor of a monarchial state. The Ma Clique did not participate in the Second Weltkrieg however it did give its support initially to the Russian State in hopes of having a strong ally to its north. This has gone semi-well with Russia now supporting the Ma Clique but it has also isolated them from the new world and it may end up being a major mistake for their chances of victory. The Ma clique is tentatively trying to reach out to the Cairo Pact and thus the Reichspakt for potential allies but the pro-Russian sentiment within the clique has prevented alliance so far.

## History

The Ma Clique in 1936 was a proud member of the Qing Empire but when the collapse came in the east the Ma Clique was quick to try and establish its own power base. The Chinese world was rocked with conflict but the western end of the nation was in the interesting position of being relatively peaceful compared to the rest of China. But this was a facade as the Ma clique was facing a lot of internal fighting with the conflict between Ma Lin and Ma Bufang. Ma Lin would end up winning the power struggle but rest was not to come with a border conflict with the Mongolians. The Ma Clique would lose this land but not China as a whole as the Guominjun would capture that area before their destruction by the Fengtian clique. But Ma was not having any rest as Tibet began to try and force control over the Yushu region as well as the discovery of the next Dali Lama in the Ma clique. Thus began the Yushu War the largest conflict in Western China during the last 12 years. The Ma Clique would preform as expected and would end up beating Tibet into the ground. But the entry of Mongolia into the war caused complications and just after Tibet released Yushu to Ma, Mongolia capitulated it. This lead to a interesting peace deal where the Ma gained claims on both thrones and gained a bit of land in the process. Mongolia was allowed to keep its ruler in return for Railway access to Russia and other areas of China witch was kinda useless but was still accepted. However then another struggle would begin that would define the fate of the Ma Clique for the rest of its current existence. The Ma Clique would turn into its internal struggles with the provisional leader of Gansu. The two brothers in the area were at each others throats and the council decided against Hongkui. However Ma Liang supported Hongkui secretly and after support was sent to Ma Liang the Clique forced out Hongbin. Ma Honkui would in-fact become so influential as to dissolve the rest of the government and declare himself emperor of the new Ma Dynasty. The Ma clique would spend the late 1940s centralizing and making plans with Russia. Russia and the Ma clique now plan on a new unification of China with the Ma clique at its head. As the last monarchist faction the Ma wish to establish a new dynasty, a muslim China. However the isolation of the Ma Clique certainly has been beginning to hurt it and the Ma ma have to sacrifice its ties to Russia should it wish to gain the support of the Cairo Pact and the Reichspakt. The future of China is uncertain but the Ma Clique will almost certainly be a part of the Unification of China.

## Military

The Ma Clique has one of the more rural oriented militaries compared to that of the Fengtian and Guangzhou governments. The Army while smaller than it probably needs to be is well made for the Semi-Arid confessions of the area and is more than capable of Holding the line against the other two factions. However the Xinjiang Clique may provide too much pressure if all attack at once. The Ma Clique due to being land locked does not have a naval force. The Ma Clique has a large air force comprised of a bunch of outdated Russian aircraft left over from the War and while they may not be much it may still give the Ma a slight edge.