USER: Write a realistic, sensible, plausible and alternate history scenario in the form of a historical documentary book chapter set in the world of the alternate historical scenario with no references to this being an alternate history scenario or to the real world timeline at all in which the stratocratic [military dominated/military governed |stratorcratic|] Beiyang Government-ruled federal parliamentary presidential republic of the first Republic of China ruling over Han China proper formed [the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC] after the national liberation movement/revolutionary movement of the 10 October 1911 - 12 February 1912 Xinhai Revolution launched [the Xinhai Revolution] by the Han nationalist, Han supremacist, anti-Manchu Tongmenghui and its [the Tongmenghui's] charismatic figurehead, the Cantonese-Hakka medical doctor in training turned anti-Manchu Han nationalist revolutionary and statesman Dr. Sun Wen, who [Wen] was [Wen] better known as "Dr. Sun-Yat Sen" and [Wen/"Yat-Sen"] also [Wen/"Yat-Sen"] founded [what Wen/"Yat-Sen" founded] the Han nationalist, Han supremacist, Chinese nationalist, Chinese imperialist, Marxist-Stalinist political party/militant group/secret society of the KMT/Kuomingtang in [when Wen/"Yat-Sen" founded the KMT/Kuomingtang] 24 November 1894 against [the nation the Xinhai Revolution was |the Xinhai Revolution| launched |the Xinhai Revolution| against] post-1644, pre-1911, the Manchu Imperial House of Aisin Gioro-ruled, Manchu-dominated imperial a...

USER: Write a realistic, sensible, plausible and alternate history scenario in the form of a historical documentary book chapter set in the world of the alternate historical scenario with no references to this being an alternate history scenario or to the real world timeline at all in which the stratocratic [military dominated/military governed |stratorcratic|] Beiyang Government-ruled federal parliamentary presidential republic of the first Republic of China ruling over Han China proper formed [the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC] after the national liberation movement/revolutionary movement of the 10 October 1911 - 12 February 1912 Xinhai Revolution launched [the Xinhai Revolution] by the Han nationalist, Han supremacist, anti-Manchu Tongmenghui and its [the Tongmenghui's] charismatic figurehead, the Cantonese-Hakka medical doctor in training turned anti-Manchu Han nationalist revolutionary and statesman Dr. Sun Wen, who [Wen] was [Wen] better known as "Dr. Sun-Yat Sen" and [Wen/"Yat-Sen"] also [Wen/"Yat-Sen"] founded [what Wen/"Yat-Sen" founded] the Han nationalist, Han supremacist, Chinese nationalist, Chinese imperialist, Marxist-Stalinist political party/militant group/secret society of the KMT/Kuomingtang in [when Wen/"Yat-Sen" founded the KMT/Kuomingtang] 24 November 1894 against [the nation the Xinhai Revolution was |the Xinhai Revolution| launched |the Xinhai Revolution| against] post-1644, pre-1911, the Manchu Imperial House of Aisin Gioro-ruled, Manchu-dominated imperial absolute dynastic federalist royal monarchy of the Great Qing Empire ruling [the Great Qing Empire] over Han China, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, East Turkestan, Tibet, Inner and Outer Mongolia and Tuva from [the Great Qing Empire's stronghold] Inner and Outer Manchuria, [the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC being |the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC| formed |the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC| after the Xinhai Revolution] as the government [the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC] of post Xinhai, post-Qing Han China, [the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC] maintains its [the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC's] status as [what type of government and state the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC was] a provisional regency [the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC] for the restoration of the pre-Qing, pre-1644 Han Chinese Imperial House of Zhu-ruled absolute imperial dynastic royal monarchy of the Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/Empire of the Great Ming/Great Ming/"Ming Empire" as per the goal of the Xinhai Revolution, which [the goal of the Xinhai Revolution] was [the Goal of the Xinhai Revolution] to "overthrow Qing, restore Ming", in other words reinstate the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu as the government of Han China proper after the overthrow of the Ming due to [why the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC remains a regency state for the restoration of the Ming as the government of post-Xinhai, post-Qing Han China] the strong influence of the influence of the millenianist Chinese folk religious sect focused on militant self-defense and tax resistance along with romanticised monarchism, wishing to restore the pre Qing Han Chinese Imperial House of Zhu-ruled Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/"Ming dynasty" as the government of China, the Yellow Sand Society and other Ming restorationist and Han monarchist groups among both the Han Chinese people and the Cantonese people. When former top dog in the Great Qing Empire's post-1895 modernized army corps, the New Army turned rising star and later the first president of the Beiyang-ruled ROC after the Xinhai Revolution, the Han Chinese Yuan Shikai, [Shikai] dissolves the first ROC in [when Shikai dissolves the first ROC] on 1 September 1915 and [Shikai] subsequently transforms the Beiyang Government into the short lived unitary parliamentary constitutional imperial monarchy of the Empire of China, [Shikai] does not crown himself [Shikai] Emperor of Han China like in OTL but [Shikai] instead reenthrones the Chinese imperial family [the Imperial House of Zhu] upon [Shikai] forming the Empire of China, thus [Shikai] restoring the Chinese monarchy [the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu] through the Empire of China. Due to Shikai restoring the monarchy [the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu] through the Empire of China instead of [Shikai] making himself [Shikai] Emperor of Han China like in OTL, the post-Xinhai, post-Qing modern warlord era of modern Chinese history from 1916 to 1928 never happens due to the restored Chinese monarchy [the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu] continuing and [the restored Chinese monarchy] expanding on the federalist, parliamentary and democratic systems introduced to Han China proper by the Beiyang Government through the first ROC. Also, due to the post-1868, pre-1947 Japanese imperial family, the Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty-ruled unitary parliamentary semi-constitutional democratic imperial royal monarchy of the Empire of Japan/Great Japanese Empire/Empire of Great Japan/Japanese Empire/Imperial Japan/Third Japanese Empire ruling [the Japanese Empire] over Russian Sahlakin and the Kurils, the Korean peninsula, the Carolinas, the Marinas and Palau from [the Japanese Empire's homebase] the Japanese Home Islands and Taiwan, [the Great Japanese Empire] sending in the Great Japanese Empire's primary ground force, the Imperial Japanese Army [IJA |Imperial Japanese Army|] and the Great Japanese Empire's naval warfare branch, the Imperial Japanese Navy [IJN], [the Great Japanese Empire sending the IJA and IJN] to post-Qing, post-Xinhai Greater Manchuria, [post-Qing, post-Xinhai Greater Manchuria] under the rule of [who rules post-Qing, post-Xinhai Greater Manchuria] the Han Chinese bandit warlord faction/Military junta of the Fengtian Clique that [the Fengtian Clique] had [the Fengtian Clique] occupied [the Fengtian Clique] both post-Xinhai, post-Qing Manchuria and the Beiyang Government of the First Republic of China under the control of [who headed the Fengtian Clique] the Han Chinese bannerman turned warlord after the Xinhai Revolution the "Old Marshal" Zhang Zhuolin, [the Great Japanese Empire sending the IJA and IJN to |the Great Japanese Empire| seize the post-Xinhai, post-Qing Fengtian Clique-ruled Greater Manchuria], making it [the post-Xinhai, post-Qing Fengtian Clique-ruled Greater Manchuria] into a Japanese protectorate [the post-Xinhai, post-Qing Fengtian Clique-ruled Greater Manchuria]. The National Protection War of 25 December 1915 - 14 July 1916 between the Beiyang Government-ruled Empire of China and the then embryonic KMT-ruled Unitary, adhering to Sun Yat Sen's three principles of the people, nationalism, democracy and socialism [social welfare] one-party ruled and dominated directorial republic under a military dictatorship of the Second Republic of China/Nationalist China/National Government of the Republic of China, [the still-embryonic Nationalist China] lead [the still-embryonic Nationalist China] by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen still happens but the reenthroned Chinese monarchy [the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu] manages to [the reenthroned Chinese monarchy] get Yunnan on its [the reenthroned Chinese monarchy's side] by allowing Yunnan to [Yunnan] secede from the Empire of China along with [Yunnan] subsequently restoring the Bai-Han Chinese Imperial House of Duan-ruled Daili Kingdom as its [Yunnan's] government [the reenthroned Chinese monarchy allowing a restored Daili Kingdom in Yunnan to secede from the Empire of China] in exchange for Yunnan aiding the Empire of China in the fight against the Chinese nationalists. The Empire of China also receives help from the Great Japanese Empire, which [the Great Japanese Empire] maintains its [the Great Japanese Empire's] indirect control over the Beiyang Government despite the restoration of the monarchy [the Imperial House of Zhu and the Great Ming State] in Han China through the Beiyang Government-ruled Empire of China. IJA advisors help the Beiyang Government's armed wing and the combined armed forces of both the first Republic of China, the Beiyang Army modernize and develop and the Japanese also help the Empire of China to develop a modern system of hereditary peerage along with [the Japanese] helping it [the Empire of China] to [the Empire of China] industrialize and [the Empire of China] develop. The Empire of China is thus [the Empire of China] able to win the National Protection War against the Nationalists and [the Empire of China] restabilize Han China, although Nationalist China survives in its [Nationalist China's] stronghold of Cantonia [Guangdong and Guangxi]. The loss in the National Protection War leads to the ousting of Wen/"Yat-Sen" from power in the rump Nationalist China and the emergence of a mostly buisness-oriented, anti-Chinese, anti-unification, pro-independence Cantonese nationalist and Cantonese independence clique to power and prominence in the government of the rump Nationalist China. These Cantonese nationalists and independence activists make a series of negotiations with the restored Chinese monarchy [the Imperial House of Zhu and the Great Ming State] that ensure the independence of the rump Nationalist China in Cantonia from the restored Ming Empire in Han China proper in all but name.name after the National Protection War. The Japanese also make a series of negotiations with the restored Chinese monarchy [the Imperial House of Zhu and the Great Ming State] that also ensure the independence of Manchuria from Han China and also states that the Empire of China will also not claim Greater Mongolia [Inner and Outer Mongolia], Tuva, East Turkestan, Tibet and Shaanxi, [the Empire of China] being [the Empire of China] restricted [the Empire of China] to the eighteen provinces of the now-long gone, long dissolved, Han Chinese Imperial House of Liu-ruled imperial absolute dynastic monarchy of the Great Han State/Great Han Empire/Empire of the Great Han/Great Han/"Han dynasty" in Han China proper.

USER: Write a realistic, sensible, plausible and alternate history scenario in the form of a historical documentary book chapter set in the world of the alternate historical scenario with no references to this being an alternate history scenario or to the real world timeline at all in which the stratocratic [military dominated/military governed |stratorcratic|] Beiyang Government-ruled federal parliamentary presidential republic of the first Republic of China ruling over Han China proper formed [the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC] after the national liberation movement/revolutionary movement of the 10 October 1911 - 12 February 1912 Xinhai Revolution launched [the Xinhai Revolution] by the Han nationalist, Han supremacist, anti-Manchu Tongmenghui and its [the Tongmenghui's] charismatic figurehead, the Cantonese-Hakka medical doctor in training turned anti-Manchu Han nationalist revolutionary and statesman Dr. Sun Wen, who [Wen] was [Wen] better known as "Dr. Sun-Yat Sen" and [Wen/"Yat-Sen"] also [Wen/"Yat-Sen"] founded [what Wen/"Yat-Sen" founded] the Han nationalist, Han supremacist, Chinese nationalist, Chinese imperialist, Marxist-Stalinist political party/militant group/secret society of the KMT/Kuomingtang in [when Wen/"Yat-Sen" founded the KMT/Kuomingtang] 24 November 1894 against [the nation the Xinhai Revolution was |the Xinhai Revolution| launched |the Xinhai Revolution| against] post-1644, pre-1911, the Manchu Imperial House of Aisin Gioro-ruled, Manchu-dominated imperial absolute dynastic federalist royal monarchy of the Great Qing Empire ruling [the Great Qing Empire] over Han China, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, East Turkestan, Tibet, Inner and Outer Mongolia and Tuva from [the Great Qing Empire's stronghold] Inner and Outer Manchuria, [the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC being |the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC| formed |the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC| after the Xinhai Revolution] as the government [the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC] of post Xinhai, post-Qing Han China, [the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC] maintains its [the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC's] status as [what type of government and state the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC was] a provisional regency [the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC] for the restoration of the pre-Qing, pre-1644 Han Chinese Imperial House of Zhu-ruled absolute imperial dynastic royal monarchy of the Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/Empire of the Great Ming/Great Ming/"Ming Empire" as per the goal of the Xinhai Revolution, which [the goal of the Xinhai Revolution] was [the Goal of the Xinhai Revolution] to "overthrow Qing, restore Ming", in other words reinstate the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu as the government of Han China proper after the overthrow of the Ming due to [why the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC remains a regency state for the restoration of the Ming as the government of post-Xinhai, post-Qing Han China] the strong influence of the influence of the millenianist Chinese folk religious sect focused on militant self-defense and tax resistance along with romanticised monarchism, wishing to restore the pre Qing Han Chinese Imperial House of Zhu-ruled Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/"Ming dynasty" as the government of China, the Yellow Sand Society and other Ming restorationist and Han monarchist groups among both the Han Chinese people and the Cantonese people. When former top dog in the Great Qing Empire's post-1895 modernized army corps, the New Army turned rising star and later the first president of the Beiyang-ruled ROC after the Xinhai Revolution, the Han Chinese Yuan Shikai, [Shikai] dissolves the first ROC in [when Shikai dissolves the first ROC] on 1 September 1915 and [Shikai] subsequently transforms the Beiyang Government into the short lived unitary parliamentary constitutional imperial monarchy of the Empire of China, [Shikai] does not crown himself [Shikai] Emperor of Han China like in OTL but [Shikai] instead reenthrones the Chinese imperial family [the Imperial House of Zhu] upon [Shikai] forming the Empire of China, thus [Shikai] restoring the Chinese monarchy [the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu] through the Empire of China. Due to Shikai restoring the monarchy [the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu] through the Empire of China instead of [Shikai] making himself [Shikai] Emperor of Han China like in OTL, the post-Xinhai, post-Qing modern warlord era of modern Chinese history from 1916 to 1928 never happens due to the restored Chinese monarchy [the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu] continuing and [the restored Chinese monarchy] expanding on the federalist, parliamentary and democratic systems introduced to Han China proper by the Beiyang Government through the first ROC. Also, due to the post-1868, pre-1947 Japanese imperial family, the Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty-ruled unitary parliamentary semi-constitutional democratic imperial royal monarchy of the Empire of Japan/Great Japanese Empire/Empire of Great Japan/Japanese Empire/Imperial Japan/Third Japanese Empire ruling [the Japanese Empire] over Russian Sahlakin and the Kurils, the Korean peninsula, the Carolinas, the Marinas and Palau from [the Japanese Empire's homebase] the Japanese Home Islands and Taiwan, [the Great Japanese Empire] sending in the Great Japanese Empire's primary ground force, the Imperial Japanese Army [IJA |Imperial Japanese Army|] and the Great Japanese Empire's naval warfare branch, the Imperial Japanese Navy [IJN], [the Great Japanese Empire sending the IJA and IJN] to post-Qing, post-Xinhai Greater Manchuria, [post-Qing, post-Xinhai Greater Manchuria] under the rule of [who rules post-Qing, post-Xinhai Greater Manchuria] the Han Chinese bandit warlord faction/Military junta of the Fengtian Clique that [the Fengtian Clique] had [the Fengtian Clique] occupied [the Fengtian Clique] both post-Xinhai, post-Qing Manchuria and the Beiyang Government of the First Republic of China under the control of [who headed the Fengtian Clique] the Han Chinese bannerman turned warlord after the Xinhai Revolution the "Old Marshal" Zhang Zhuolin, [the Great Japanese Empire sending the IJA and IJN to |the Great Japanese Empire| seize the post-Xinhai, post-Qing Fengtian Clique-ruled Greater Manchuria], making it [the post-Xinhai, post-Qing Fengtian Clique-ruled Greater Manchuria] into a Japanese protectorate [the post-Xinhai, post-Qing Fengtian Clique-ruled Greater Manchuria]. The National Protection War of 25 December 1915 - 14 July 1916 between the Beiyang Government-ruled Empire of China and the then embryonic KMT-ruled Unitary, adhering to Sun Yat Sen's three principles of the people, nationalism, democracy and socialism [social welfare] one-party ruled and dominated directorial republic under a military dictatorship of the Second Republic of China/Nationalist China/National Government of the Republic of China, [the still-embryonic Nationalist China] lead [the still-embryonic Nationalist China] by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen still happens but the reenthroned Chinese monarchy [the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu] manages to [the reenthroned Chinese monarchy] get Yunnan on its [the reenthroned Chinese monarchy's side] by allowing Yunnan to [Yunnan] secede from the Empire of China along with [Yunnan] subsequently restoring the Bai-Han Chinese Imperial House of Duan-ruled Daili Kingdom as its [Yunnan's] government [the reenthroned Chinese monarchy allowing a restored Daili Kingdom in Yunnan to secede from the Empire of China] in exchange for Yunnan aiding the Empire of China in the fight against the Chinese nationalists. The Empire of China also receives help from the Great Japanese Empire, which [the Great Japanese Empire] maintains its [the Great Japanese Empire's] indirect control over the Beiyang Government despite the restoration of the monarchy [the Imperial House of Zhu and the Great Ming State] in Han China through the Beiyang Government-ruled Empire of China. IJA advisors help the Beiyang Government's armed wing and the combined armed forces of both the first Republic of China, the Beiyang Army modernize and develop and the Japanese also help the Empire of China to develop a modern system of hereditary peerage along with [the Japanese] helping it [the Empire of China] to [the Empire of China] industrialize and [the Empire of China] develop. The Empire of China is thus [the Empire of China] able to win the National Protection War against the Nationalists and [the Empire of China] restabilize Han China, although Nationalist China survives in its [Nationalist China's] stronghold of Cantonia [Guangdong and Guangxi]. The loss in the National Protection War leads to the ousting of Wen/"Yat-Sen" from power in the rump Nationalist China and the emergence of a mostly buisness-oriented, anti-Chinese, anti-unification, pro-independence Cantonese nationalist and Cantonese independence clique to power and prominence in the government of the rump Nationalist China. These Cantonese nationalists and independence activists make a series of negotiations with the restored Chinese monarchy [the Imperial House of Zhu and the Great Ming State] that ensure the independence of the rump Nationalist China in Cantonia from the restored Ming Empire in Han China proper in all but name after the National Protection War. The Japanese also make a series of negotiations with the restored Chinese monarchy [the Imperial House of Zhu and the Great Ming State] that also ensure the independence of Manchuria from Han China and also states that the Empire of China will also not claim Greater Mongolia [Inner and Outer Mongolia], Tuva, East Turkestan, Tibet and Shaanxi, [the Empire of China] being [the Empire of China] restricted [the Empire of China] to the eighteen provinces of the now-long gone, long dissolved, Han Chinese Imperial House of Liu-ruled imperial absolute dynastic monarchy of the Great Han State/Great Han Empire/Empire of the Great Han/Great Han/"Han dynasty" in Han China proper. Due to the military campaign launched by the KMT's military arm and Nationalist China's regular army, the National Revolutionary Army and lead by Sun's/Wen's disciple and fellow revolutionary turned brutal warlord and puppet of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in the 1920s, the Cantonese Jiang Jieshi, [Jieshi] better known outside Asia as [Jieshi's other name] "Chiang Kai-Shek"] against both the Beiyang Government, the first Republic of China and the Fengtian Clique lasting from 9 July 1926 - 29 December 1928 known as the Northern Expedition never happening due to Wen's removal from power in Nationalist China and the monarchy [the Imperial House of Zhu and the Great Ming State] being restored in Han China through the Empire of China, The side branch of the Genghis Khan-descended Mongolian Imperial House of Borjigin, the Mongolian Imperial House of Chagatai-ruled joint-Islamic sultanate and Mongolian khanate of the Kumul Khanate located [the Kumul Khanate] in East Turkestan's Hami province, [the Kumul Khanate] survives post-1930s and [the Kumul Khanate] expands to [the Kumul Khanate] rule over all of East Turkestan in the absence of Wen's/"Sun" and Jieshi/"Chiang" in Nationalist China. East Turkestan never becomes a part of Han China.

USER: Chatbot Write a realistic, sensible, plausible and alternate history scenario in the form of a historical documentary book chapter set in the world of the alternate historical scenario with no references to this being an alternate history scenario or to the real world timeline at all , in which the stratocratic [military dominated/military governed |stratorcratic|] Beiyang Government-ruled federal parliamentary presidential republic of the first Republic of China ruling over Han China proper formed [the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC] after the national liberation movement/revolutionary movement of the 10 October 1911 - 12 February 1912 Xinhai Revolution launched [the Xinhai Revolution]Japan continued on its [Japan's] post-WW2 growth towards [Japan] becoming a political, economic, military and cultural superpower [Japan], [Japan] never experiencing "the Lost Decade" and or the Plaza Accords or any slump in growth and development in the late 1990s and 2010s, [Japan] having Taiwan and the Pengu Islands returned to it [Japan] by the Han nationalist, Han supremacist, anti-Manchu Tongmenghui and its [the Tongmenghui's] charismatic figurehead, the Cantonese-Hakka medical doctor in training turned anti-Manchu Han nationalist revolutionary and statesman Dr. Sun Wen, who [Wen] was [Wen] better known as "Dr. Sun-Yat Sen" and [Wen/"Yat-Sen"] also [Wen/"Yat-Sen"] founded [what Wen/"Yat-Sen" founded]both the USSR and the USA in a repeat of the return of Okinawa in 1972 to Japanese control due to the Han nationalist, Han supremacist, Chinese nationalist, Chinese imperialist, Marxist-Stalinist political party/militant group/secret society of the KMT/Kuomingtang in [when Wen/"Yat-Sen" founded the KMT/Kuomingtang] 24 November 1894 against [the nation the Xinhai Revolution was |the Xinhai Revolution| launched |the Xinhai Revolution| against] post-1644, pre-1911, the Manchu Imperial House of Aisin Gioro-ruled, Manchu-dominated imperial absolute dynastic federalist royal monarchy of the Great Qing Empire ruling [the Great Qing Empire] over Han China, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, East Turkestan, Tibet, Inner and Outer Mongolia and Tuva from [the Great Qing Empire's stronghold] Inner and Outer Manchuria, [the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC being |the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC| formed |the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC| after the Xinhai Revolution] as the government [the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC] of post Xinhai, post-Qing Han China, [the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC] maintains its [the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC's] status as [what type of government andand the joint American-Soviet satellite state the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC was] a provisional regency [the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC] for the restoration of the pre-Qing, pre-1644 Han Chinese Imperial House of Zhu-ruled absolute imperial dynastic royal monarchy of the Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/Empire of the Great Ming/Great Ming/"Ming Empire" as per the goal of the Xinhai Revolution, which [the goal of the Xinhai Revolution] was [the Goal of the Xinhai Revolution] to "overthrow Qing, restore Ming", in other words reinstate the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu as the government of Han China proper after the overthrow of the Ming due to [why the Beiyang Government-ruled ROC remains a regency state for the restoration of the Ming as the government of post-Xinhai, post-Qing Han China] the strong influence of the influence of the millenianist Chinese folk religious sect focused on militant self-defense and tax resistance along with romanticised monarchism, wishing to restore the pre Qing Han Chinese Imperial House of Zhu-ruled Great Ming State/Great Ming Empire/"Ming dynasty" as the government of China, the Yellow Sand Society and other Ming restorationist and Han monarchist groups among both the Han Chinese people and the Cantonese people. When former top dog in the Great Qing Empire's post-1895 modernized army corps, the New Army turned rising star and later the first president of the Beiyang-ruled ROC after the Xinhai Revolution, the Han Chinese Yuan Shikai, [Shikai] dissolves the first ROC in [when Shikai dissolves the first ROC] on 1 September 1915 and [Shikai] subsequently transforms the Beiyang Government into the short lived unitary parliamentary constitutional imperial monarchy of the Empire of China, [Shikai] does not crown himself [Shikai] Emperor of Han China like in OTL but [Shikai] instead reenthrones the Chinese imperial family [the Imperial House of Zhu] upon [Shikai] forming the Empire of China, thus [Shikai] restoring the Chinese monarchy [the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu] through the Empire of China. Due to Shikai restoring the monarchy [the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu] through the Empire of China instead of [Shikai] making himself [Shikai] Emperor of Han China like in OTL, the post-Xinhai, post-Qing modern warlord era of modern Chinese history from 1916 to 1928 never happens due to the restored Chinese monarchy [the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu] continuing and [the restored Chinese monarchy] expanding on the federalist, parliamentary and democratic systems introduced to Han China proper by the Beiyang Government through the first ROC. Also, due to the post-1868, pre-1947 Japanese imperial family, the Imperial House of Great Yamato/Minamoto dynasty-ruled unitary parliamentary semi-constitutional democratic imperial royal monarchy of the Empire of Japan/Great Japanese Empire/Empire of Great Japan/Japanese Empire/Imperial Japan/Third Japanese Empire ruling [the Japanese Empire] over Russian Sahlakin and the Kurils, the Korean peninsula, the Carolinas, the Marinas and Palau from [the Japanese Empire's homebase] the Japanese Home Islands and Taiwan, [the Great Japanese Empire] sending in the Great Japanese Empire's primary ground force, the Imperial Japanese Army [IJA |Imperial Japanese Army|] and the Great Japanese Empire's naval warfare branch, the Imperial Japanese Navy [IJN], [the Great Japanese Empire sending the IJA and IJN] to post-Qing, post-Xinhai Greater Manchuria, [post-Qing, post-Xinhai Greater Manchuria] under the rule of [who rules post-Qing, post-Xinhai Greater Manchuria] the Han Chinese bandit warlord faction/Military junta of the Fengtian Clique that [the Fengtian Clique] had [the Fengtian Clique] occupied [the Fengtian Clique] both post-Xinhai, post-Qing Manchuria and the Beiyang Government of the First Republic of China under the control of [who headed the Fengtian Clique] the Han Chinese bannerman turned warlord after the Xinhai Revolution the "Old Marshal" Zhang Zhuolin, [the Great Japanese Empire sending the IJA and IJN to |the Great Japanese Empire| seize the post-Xinhai, post-Qing Fengtian Clique-ruled Greater Manchuria], making it [the post-Xinhai, post-Qing Fengtian Clique-ruled Greater Manchuria] into a Japanese protectorate [the post-Xinhai, post-Qing Fengtian Clique-ruled Greater Manchuria]. The National Protection War of 25 December 1915 - 14 July 1916 between the Beiyang Government-ruled Empire of China and the then embryonic KMT-ruledKMT ruled with an iron fist, the Unitary, adhering to Sun Yat Sen's three principles of the people, nationalism, democracy and socialism [social welfare] one-party ruled and dominated directorial republic under a military dictatorship of the Second Republic of China/Nationalist China/National Government of the Republic of China, [the still-embryonicChina which [Nationalist China] had [Nationalist China] been in exile on Taiwan in 1949 after the latter [the KMT and Nationalist China] lead [the still-embryonic Nationalist China] by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen still happenslost the Chinese Civil War of 1947-1949 to the de jure Marxist-Leninist, socialist but the reenthronedde facto Han nationalist, Han supremacist, Chinese monarchy [the Great Ming State and the Imperial House of Zhu] manages to [the reenthronedsupremacist, Chinese monarchy] get Yunnan on its [the reenthronedImperialist Chinese monarchy's side] by allowing Yunnan to [Yunnan] secede from the EmpireCommunist Party ruled de jure socialist republic but de facto Han nationalist, Han supremacist People's Republic of China along with [Yunnan] subsequently restoring the Bai-Han Chinese Imperial House of Duan-ruled Daili Kingdom as its [Yunnan's] government [the reenthroned Chinese monarchy allowing a restored Daili Kingdom in Yunnan to secede from the Empire of China] in exchange for Yunnan aiding the Empire of China in the fight against the Chinese nationalists. The Empire of China also receives help from the Great Japanese Empire, which [the Great Japanese Empire] maintains its [the Great Japanese Empire's] indirect controlruling [the PRC] over the Beiyang Government despite the restoration of the monarchy [the Imperial House of Zhu and the Great Ming State] in Han China through the Beiyang Government-ruled Empire of China. IJA advisors help the Beiyang Government's armed wing and the combined armed forces of both the first Republic of China, the Beiyang Army modernize and develop and the Japanese also help the Empire of China to develop a modern system of hereditary peerage along with [the Japanese] helping it [the Empire of China] to [the Empire of China] industrialize and [the Empire of China] develop. The Empire of China is thus [the Empire of China] able to win the National Protection War against the Nationalists and [the Empire of China] restabilize Han China, although Nationalist China survives in its [Nationalist China's] stronghold of Cantonia [Guangdong and Guangxi]. The loss in the National Protection War leads to the ousting of Wen/"Yat-Sen" from power in the rump Nationalist China and the emergence of a mostly buisness-oriented, anti-Chinese, anti-unification, pro-independence Cantonese nationalist and Cantonese independence clique to power and prominence in the government of the rump Nationalist China. These Cantonese nationalists and independence activists make a series of negotiations with the restored Chinese monarchy [the Imperial House of Zhu and the Great Ming State] that ensure the independence of the rump Nationalist China in Cantonia from the restored Ming Empire in Han China proper in all but name after the National Protection War. The Japanese also make a series of negotiations with the restored Chinese monarchy [the Imperial House of Zhu and the Great Ming State] that also ensure the independence of Manchuria from Han China and also states that the Empire of China will also not claim Greater Mongolia [Inner and Outer Mongolia], Tuva,Guangdong, Guangxi, East Turkestan, Tibet and Shaanxi, [the Empire ofInner and Outer Mongolia, Tibet, Shanxi and Yunnan from [the PRC's stronghold and home base] Greater Manchuria, [Nationalist China] being [the Empire of China] restricted [the Empire of China] to the eighteen provinces of the now-long gone, long dissolved, Han Chinese Imperial House of Liu-ruled imperial absolute dynastic monarchy of the Great Han State/Great Han Empire/Empire of the Great Han/Great Han/"Han dynasty" in Han China proper. Due to the military campaign launched byreunifying with the mainland after the death of the KMT's military arm andmost infamous head, Nationalist China's regular army, the National Revolutionary Army and lead by Sun's/Wen's disciple and fellow revolutionary turned brutal warlord and puppet ofmost infamous Chairman and Generalissmo and Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in the 1920s, the CantoneseStalin's man in China, the Han Chinese revolutionary turned warlord Jiang Jieshi, [Jieshi]who [ Jieshi] was [ Jieshi] better known outside Asia as [Jieshi's other name] "Chiang Kai-Shek"] against both the Beiyang Government,Kai Shek" in [when [ Jieshi/"Kai Shek" died] 5 April 1975 and the death of the CCP's most infamous head and the first Republic of China and the Fengtian Clique lasting from 9 July 1926 - 29 December 1928 known as the Northern Expedition never happening due to Wen's removal from power infascist dictator of the PRC, Mao Zedong in [when Zedong died] September 9, 1976, [the reunification of Nationalist China and the monarchy [the Imperial House of Zhu and the Great Ming State] being restored in Hanwith the Chinese mainland after the deaths of both Jieshi/Shek and Mao] leaving Taiwan and the Pengu Islands in a political and legal limbo and thus leaving the Americans and Soviets with no choice but to return Taiwan and the Pengu Islands to Japan. After [Japan] having Taiwan and the Pengu Islands returned to it [Japan] after the reunification of Nationalist China with the Chinese mainland after the deaths of both Jieshi/Shek and Mao, Japan restores the post-1898, pre-1947 Japanese province of Formosa on Taiwan and the Pengu Islands. The remnants of Nationalist China's combined land, air and sea combat force, the Republic of China Armed Forces/Chinese National Armed Forces left behind on Taiwan and the Pengu Islands after the reunification of Nationalist China with the Chinese mainland after the deaths of both Jieshi/Shek and Mao and the subsequent return of Taiwan and the Pengu Islands to Japan are [the remnants of the ROCAF/CNAF left behind on Taiwan and the Penghu Islands] absorbed into the unified military forces of post-WW2 Japan, controlled by the Japanese Ministry of Defense with the Japanese Prime Minister as commander-in-chief, without offensive warmaking capabilities but with an inherent right to self-defense, the Japanese Self Defence Forces, [JSDF] and Taiwan's post-WW2 industrial and growing high technological capability are absorbed into Japan along with the advanced military, industrial and espionage technologies left behind by the Americans and Soviets. In order to get money to prop up the failing Soviet economy and also as a unimplied non-aggression treaty, the Soviets also return Sahlakin and the Kurils to Japan, with the Japanese subsequently restoring the post-WW1, pre-1920s Japanese province of Karufuto on Sahlakin and the Kuril Islands. After pro-democracy, anti-military dictatorship protests in the joint US-PRC puppet state of the totalitarian military dictatorship of the Republic of Korea occupying South Korea spread to the Soviet satellite dictatorship of the Korean nationalist, Korean supremacist, Leninist-Stalinist Worker's Party of Korea-ruled totalitarian communist dictatorship of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea occupying North Korea, [the protests in the ROK spreading to the DPRK] toppling both post-WW2 Korean regimes [the DPRK and ROK], the Soviets and Americans jointly agree to return all of the Korean peninsula to Japan in a repeat of the Taiwanese and Okinawan situations. After the return of the entire Korean peninsula to Japan, the Japanese restore the pre-1947 Japanese province of Chosen on the Korean peninsula. The ROK's combined military forces, the ROKAF [Republic of Korea's Armed Forces] and the ROKAF's special forces division the Republic of Korea Army Special Warfare Command [ROKASWC] are [the ROKAF and ROKASWC] absorbed [the ROKAF and ROKASWC] into the JSDF along with the DPRK's combined armed forces, the Korean People's Army [KPA] and the elite special forces of the KPA, the Korean People's Army Special Operations Forces. The DPRK's secret police and concentration camp management agency with special authority to investigate political and economic crimes within the DPRK, the Ministry of State Security, the Reconnaissance General Bureau, the KPA's military intelligence bureau that manages the DPRK's clandestine operations and [the RGB] is the DPRK's primary intelligence and clandestine operations organ are [the MSS and the RGB] absorbed [the MSS and RGB] into post-WW2's Japan's domestic intelligence agency administered by the Japanese Ministry of Justice tasked with internal security and espionage against threats to Japanese national security, contributing to Japanese government policy by providing relevant organizations with necessary foreign and domestic data (collected through the Empire of China,investigations and intelligence activities) on subversive organizations, the Public Security Intelligence Agency and the post-WW2Japanese intelligence agency under the Cabinet Secretariat responsible for gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information for the cabinet, reporting directly to the Japanese Prime Minister, the Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office. The side branch of the Genghis Khan-descended Mongolian Imperial House of Borjigin, the Mongolian Imperial House of Chagatai-ruled joint-Islamic sultanate and Mongolian khanate of the Kumul Khanate located [the Kumul Khanate] in East Turkestan's Hami province, [the Kumul Khanate] survives post-1930s and [the Kumul Khanate] expands to [the Kumul Khanate] rule over all of East Turkestan in the absence of Wen's/"Sun" and Jieshi/"Chiang" inROK's economic, industrial and growing high technological computer strength, along with the DPRK's military and industrial might are also absorbed into Japan, strengthening Japan's already growing industrial, economical and military strength. The Japanese also receive the tools for building nuclear weaponry from the now-defunct DPRK and Nationalist China. East Turkestan never becomes a part of Han China.After the return of the entire Korean peninsula to Japan, the Japanese restore the post-1910, pre-1947 Japanese province of Chosen on the Korean peninsula.