People's Republic of China

*Main Article: People's Republic of China*

The **People's Republic of China** was the third-largest nation in the world and an East-Asian Nation. China emerged as one of the world's first civilizations in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. China was one of the world's foremost economic powers for most of the two millennia from the 1st until the 19th century. For millennia, China's political system was based on absolute hereditary monarchies, or dynasties, beginning with the semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE. Since then, China has expanded, fractured, and re-unified numerous times. In the 3rd century BCE, the Qin reunited core China and established the first Chinese empire. The succeeding Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE) saw some of the most advanced technology at that time, including papermaking and the compass, along with agricultural and medical improvements. The invention of gunpowder and movable type in the Tang dynasty (618–907) and Northern Song dynasty (960–1127) completed the Four Great Inventions. Tang culture spread widely in Asia, as the new Silk Road brought traders to as far as Mesopotamia and the Horn of Africa. The Qing dynasty, China's last dynasty, which formed the territorial basis for modern China, suffered heavy losses to foreign imperialism in the 19th century.

The Chinese monarchy collapsed in 1912 with the Xinhai Revolution, when the Republic of China (ROC) replaced the Qing dynasty. China was invaded by the Empire of Japan during World War II. The Civil War resulted in a division of territory in 1949 when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) established the People's Republic of China on the mainland while the Kuomintang-led ROC government retreated to the island of Taiwan. Both claim to be the sole legitimate government of China, although the United Nations has recognized the PRC as the sole representation since 1971. China conducted a series of economic reforms since 1978, and entered into the World Trade Organization in 2001.

China was governed as a unitary one-party socialist republic by the CCP. China was a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council and a founding member of several multilateral and regional cooperation organizations such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the Silk Road Fund, the New Development Bank, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and the RCEP, and was a member of the BRICS, the G8+5, the G20, the APEC, and the East Asia Summit. It ranks among the lowest in international measurements of civil liberties, government transparency, freedom of the press, freedom of religion and ethnic minorities. Chinese authorities had been criticized by political dissidents and human rights activists for widespread human rights abuses, including political repression, mass censorship, mass surveillance of their citizens and violent suppression of protests.

China was the world's largest economy by GDP at purchasing power parity, second-largest economy by nominal GDP, and the world's second wealthiest country by total wealth. The country had a fast growing major economy and is the world's largest manufacturer and exporter. China was a recognized nuclear-weapon state with the world's largest standing army by military personnel and second-largest defense budget.

## Battle of Taiwan

China invaded Taiwan in 2025, causing shock in the international community. The Chinese Navy defeated the American, Japanese, Indian and Australian Navy in the Battle of Hualian, making its army the world's strongest.

## Space Age

China was one of the first countries which sent astronauts to Mars. It was also one of the seven countries which held territories on Mars and the Moon.

## The Great Flood

General Ye Shi-Kai rose as a warlord in Manchuria after his success in the Battle of Taiwan, and Uyghur insurgents become more prominent during the Battle of Taiwan. Due to these reasons, the People's Republic broke apart during the Great Flood. The Democratic Party and Nationalist Party founded the Republic of China in Chongqing as the Uyghurs and Manchus declared independence