TRP- China

Judgement Day and Aftermath (1997)

Devastated by nuclear fallout from the initial US-Russia exchange, and pockmarked by a limited nuclear strike on its nuclear assets and cities by Russia and India, China's population was reduced to 50 million, 1/20th of its pre-war population of nearly 1 billion Chinese subjects. The fallout from the attacks on Russia, carried by wind currents, devastated farmlands and urban centers, causing intense famine throughout all of Asia and killing many to radiation-related ailments. Furthermore, central administration was cut off after the destruction of Beijing, which took with it the president, premier, all of the National Assembly, and much of the high-ranking leadership of the People's Liberation Army. With no continuation of government in the works, several small states emerged from the ruins, mostly headed by generals who had managed a large enough following.

The Plunderer's War (1998-2002)
In 1998, thousands of North Korean refugees stormed the border fences into China. For 3 years, the North Koreans were forced to live a life of oppression, as the food supply dwindled and dwindled and the leadership continued to live a life of luxury. With the nuclear war compounding the already disastrous 1996 famine (upon which they had relied on foreign food aid), many had resorted to rebellion, banditry, and even cannibalism, which had now become widespread- The Dear Leader, in fact, was set upon by dozens of hungry citizens and soldiers  as he tried to board a train bound for a secret military bunker.

Beyond the mountains, these refugees, among them the remnants of the Korean People's Army, plundered and ate their way through what meager farmland remained, and continued along the Southern coast in search of food. To make matters worse, steppe nomads from Mongolia rode south, seeking similar resources and grazing land. The following conflict, the Plunderer's War, lasted four years, and took the lives of a further 5 million Chinese, 200,000 North Koreans, and 50,000 Mongolians. The loss of much of China's remaining agricultural production would cripple China's ability to feed itself, and by the time of MIR invasion, China's population numbered barely over 15 million. Many surviving Koreans and Mongolians in China found themselves the object of scorn for many years afterwards.

Resource Wars (2002-2011)
With most of the country reverting to feudal-type agricultural production, China essentially returned to its traditional state of a divided land perpetually at war. And thus, the first decade of the 2000's saw mostly minor internal conflicts between the major parties controlling Mainland China, mostly over farmland and natural resources. The Sichuan Alliance and the Himalayan Free Army spent 6 months fighting over a hospital and the surrounding territory, inflicting hundreds of casualties in the process and finding that all of the supplies had been stolen during the fighting. By the MIR invasion, the following groups were present:

The Himalayan Free Army: With no Chinese colonists willing to continue their official hold on the Tibetan Autonomous Region, Xizang soon came to represent former Tibet, Nepal, Northern India and parts of Bangladesh. With their ranks bolstered by the Gurkha and Sherpa tribes, the HFA is a formidable military power, although its agricultural production needs to be bolstered by trade with the Sichuan Alliance and Hong Kong.

Sichuan Alliance: While the SA does not control Sichuan proper, it does control Yunnan, and is more often than not based in the jungles of surrounding Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. It possesses the largest agricultural capabilities out of the four main powers, but its military capabilities are largely augmented by tribal guerrillas. The SA is occasionally plagued by bouts of ethnic violence, as many of its ethnic groups had been at war merely decades before.  The SA also possessed the final remaining nuclear warhead in all of China.

The Manchurian Republic: The Northeast Provinces, also known as Manchuria, largely managed to adequately feed its population of 2 million, and was among the only areas of China, and indeed the world, to continue industrial development, with surviving coal, steel, and armament production facilities throughout the region. It also continued to produce barley and wheat, as well as some livestock, providing a steady stream of food to its neighbors, the CGA and smaller groups spread throughout the region.

The Central Government Authority: Created by a wealthy bureaucrat in Tianjin, The CGA was a loose confederation of central Chinese provinces, although it realistically only controlled the former provinces of Hebei, Henan Shanxi, and Shandong. Among the first to be hit by both the initial nuclear strikes and later the North Korean exodus, those living under the rule of the CGA tended to live in near-starvation conditions. With little agricultural, military or industrial capabilities of its own, it largely relied on humanitarian aid from the Manchurian Republic and sending much of its surviving population to work as laborers in Manchurian farms and industrial endeavors. Despite living in abject squalor, the CGA often provoked several confrontations with smaller, independent groups and the Sichuan Alliance, often raiding its trade caravans on the roads.

Hong Kong and Macau: Hong Kong Island was devastated on Judgement Day, but the remains of the brand new Hong Kong SAR quickly re-established industrial capacity, like the Manchurian Republic, and began to help its neighbors. Due to the Handover to China being incomplete, large portions of British colonial military forces remain in-country. Hong Kong currently controls what remains of Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula, while also expanding into the neighboring Guangdong Province. Language differences and pre-war divisions have caused some tensions between Hong Kong and other factions, though their economic power makes them an invaluable ally.

Xinjiang: Like the HFA, Xinjiang separated as soon as it could from the People's Republic of China following Judgment Day.  The Turkic Uyghurs, long persecuted by the Chinese government, have become a major military power. Relations between the Uyghurs and other Chinese factions have been tense, though the MIR invasion has caused them to become a unifying force.

The MIR invasion (2017)
Without warning, on October 5, 2017, hundreds of motorized vehicles and robotic infantry poured across the Russian border, and from the Chinese coastline. MIR and Skynet were now in a position to go on the offensive, having observed the remains of humanity from underground and abandoned military installations worldwide. The smaller groups largely fell first, either to MIR proper, or to the incredibly large Mongolian, Kazakh and Turkic army which had sworn itself to MIR's cause in exchange for new land in China. For over a year, The Manchurian Republic was able to hold the invaders at bay, providing the remainder of China time to regroup and plan until the CGA's defection allowed MIR a clear entrance into Manchuria. Its military scattered or slaughtered by the machine onslaught, the Manchurian Republic ceased to exist, its bountiful production in all areas repurposed for the enemy war effort.

The Sichuan Alliance and the Himalayan Free Army were decimated, but due to limited MIR resources, the land war in China following the fall of Manchuria has been mostly between MIR's human armies and the human resistance forces.

Within weeks of its inception, both factions immediately declared support for the organized global resistance against both Skynet and MIR, and donned the red-colored armbands of the worldwide rebellion.


The Free Chinese Army (2012-Present)

In 2016, the major armed Chinese factions unified under the banner of the Free Chinese Army, bearing the old insignia of the pre-Communist Republic of China. This massive faction aligned itself with the global Resistance movement in 2021, and has since received support from Australia and the Resistance Pacific Command.

Initially a fairly conventional war, supply shortages and dwindling manpower has resulted in a general shift to guerrilla warfare, focusing on interrupting MIR supply lines and communication relays in the Eastern provinces. While MIR continues to inflict a constant stream of casualties from both civilian and resistance sources, the strategy has caused MIR advance beyond the Western half of Sichuan to halt, and the frontline has not officially moved since 2024. The incredibly harsh terrains of Xinjiang to the west and the Himalayas to the south have thus become human strongholds, with several units operating freely with contiguous borders to Himalayan and Burmese territory.

In addition to this hit-and-run strategy, the Free Chinese Army airlifts numerous supplies and manpower into occupied territories through Burma. With this, the intention is to infiltrate smaller hamlets and provide villagers with plasma and higher-grade weaponry to be used in defending their land from MIR. As a result, several highly successful Resistance groups have sprung from MIR-controlled territory, most notably the Red Tigers, a remnant of the Manchurian Army led by the young but brilliant Yang Wen-li.

Occupied China (2012-Present)
MIR quickly established the CGA as the legitimate successor to the Chinese government, in an attempt to consolidate and centralize its human proxy forces in China.  Through the CGA, MIR operates an extensive network of gulags and labor camps.  Few death camps appear to exist, ostensibly because SkyNET's high-tech, automated infrastructure has yet to be established in the region.  As a result, human-produced machinery and munitions bolster MIR's war effort, though of a much lower quality than anything produced by SkyNET, and a major project involves converting surplus Soviet, Russian and Chinese military equipment into automatons.