A Colder War: Game Thread

What would your view be of bringing the Korean workers onto the revolutionary path if the opportunity arose?

To Republic of China
From Empire of Japan
We Have Started to Withdraw our Settlers from Hainain Island and the withdrawal process will be complete by 1962 this should lower Tensions in the region.

From the United States
To Japan

It'll take you two years?

Utter nonsense.

We'd be more then happy to put the US Navy and Air Force to work transferring all your settlers back to Japan. We could probably have it done in time for Sunday brunch.

Türkiye Cumhuriyeti - 1960



Name: Republic of Turkey
Head of State: Cemal Gürsel
Head of Government: Cemal Gürsel
Type of Government: Republican Dictatorship
Population: 29,231,294
Capital: Ankara
Largest City: Istanbul

Domestic

Internal Events:

Following a very close call the former Prime Minister Adnan Menderes is spared from execution and reappointed as Prime Minister. Law professors from the nations universities are brought to the capital to draft a new constitution and preparations are made to transition back to a democratic government.

Due to the threat of invasion by the neighboring European superpowers huge emphasis is put on the expansion and modernization of the armed forces.

At the same time on a more light hearted note Turkey wins the Scotland-Turkey football game that was being hosted in Istanbul.

Internal Problems:
-Rouge Military Elements
-Germany and the Soviets
-Somewhat backwards land army

Economic Status:
-Booming

Military

Army:

Standing Army: 435,000

Reserve Army: 665,000

Navy:
15 Destroyers
12 Submarines

Air Force: By far the biggest in the region,beaten only by Germany,Italy and Russia.

Diplomacy:

To: France
From: The Republic of Turkey

So we heard you will be moving out of Syria in the next three years or so,right?

To united kingdom
From Canada
Thank you, or Map is slightly less messed up now.

Canadian internal event
Next year the territory of Newfoundland and Labrador will beer transferred from brush administration to Canadian administration. Plans are being drawn up for their integration into Canada such as taxes, representation, and many other things. People are celebrating that the map of Canada is less messed up now.

中華民國- 1960




Name: Republic of China
President: Yuan Kaihuang
Premier: Gao Shaoqi
Type of Government: De Jure republic, De Facto one party state
Population: 602,024,000
Capital: Nanjing
Largest City: Nanjing

Domestic

Internal Events:
-The aftermath of the Japanese invasion and the resolution of the Chinese civil war irreversibly changed the political and economic landscape of the Republic of China. For one, for the first time in decades, the Chinese nation was truly one again (With the exception of the communists in Manchuria, but the government tried not to think about Manchuria), and the long period of warlords and division had finally ended. The KMT held total power over the China like never before, the first government to truly control the entire nation since the Qing, and had the popularity to carry out essentially anything they desired. Whereas, before, Jiang Jieshi was rather unpopular among the Chinese people for the immense corruption and general incompetence of his regime, for the first time since the end of the Northern Expedition, Nanjing Decade, and the golden days of the KMT, he was hugely popular among the Chinese people. He was their savior from the Japanese invaders, he was the one who singlehandedly (or so said the government) defended China against the imperialist onslaught. With this new wind beneath his sails, he could do anything he wanted...

That is, until a year later, when he was killed by an Communist-sympathetic (although not at all associated with the PRC) assassin at a rally in Beijing. Having spent the last decade and a half or so centering power around him and his cronies, Jiang's death left behind a power vacuum and general chaos as different factions within the KMT emerged, all battling each other for control of the nation. Out of the many competing for leadership of China, it would eventually be a rather unknown KMT officer named Yuan Kaihuang who would emerge as the victor. A talented colonel, later, general in the Chinese army who, through both luck and martial skill, held one of the best records against the Japanese during the 2nd Sino-Japanese War, Yuan, whilst a minor celebrity in military circles, was never thought of as someone having much political ambition. As such, he was chosen as a compromise candidate by the several more powerful factions, all believing that they could control him once he got into office. The reality would be far different.

Although possessing little political experience, Yuan was a cunning and intelligent man with a surprisingly firm grasp on diplomacy and economics. Moreover, once in power, he turned out to be an ambitious and fiercely independent man who outmaneuvered the many factions that sought to control his presidency and exert his own power. He lacked charisma, that much was true-Yuan's military genius came from his tactical skill and reputation, not his ability to personally inspire his men, and was generally a quiet, introverted, and calculating person, however, he made up for that, and his lack of experience, by surrounding himself with loyal subordinates who could fill his gaps, most his friends from his military days. A meritocrat, he filled government positions with those who were actually capable, rather than those who payed him the largest bribe, and, for the first time in the KMT's history, formed the backbone of a working, functional government.

Yuan's next achievement was perhaps the defining moment of his career in the 1950s, a massive, 10 year long land reform that progressively broke the back of Chinese landlords, and created a higher number of small peasants whom, with the help of the state, increased the agricultural output dramatically. This was the first excedent accumulation source. It inverted capital creation, and liberated the agricultural workforce to work in the urban sectors. However, the government imposed on the peasants an unequal exchange with the industrial economy, with credit and fertilizer controls and a non monetary exchange to trade agrarian products (machinery) for rice. With the control of the banks (from practices detailed below), and import licenses, the state oriented the Chinese economy to import substitutive industrialization, creating initial capitalism in a fully protected market.

The same time period saw the emergence of 'over-loaning' (a practice that continues today) in which the Bank of China issues loans to city banks who in turn issue loans to industrial conglomerates. Because there was a shortage of capital in China at the time, industrial conglomerates borrowed beyond their capacity to repay, often beyond their net worth, causing city banks in turn to overborrow from the Bank of China. This gave the national Bank of China complete control over dependent local banks, giving the Chinese government, while capitalist, great control over the going-ons of the Chinese economy, allowing the Chinese government to fund infrastructure buildups and the construction of industry in China's three most important regions, Hebei, the Yangtze Valley, and Guangzhou.

The beginning of the 1960s saw another shift for the Chinese economy. In the first two years of the decade, the Chinese government already had begin to relax the protectionist controls on its economy, shifting it to an export-oriented stance and allowing far greater foreign investment into the nation as the aid money and money freed from cuts to the bloated military budget to fund government investment began to dry up. While tariffs on goods imported to China remained relatively high, compared to those between other friendly nations in the west, the Chinese government began to strenuously promote an export-oriented economy, particularly to the markets of the United States and Europe, where the low wage expectations, work ethics, and productivity of the average Chinese worker will surely attract the expansion of businesses to China. Only time will tell if this will work...

In 1960, China also began the Economic Development Plan, funded by large amounts of American aid and loans given to China as a bulwark against communism and cuts to the bloated military budget, a plan that was geared towards the buildup of infrastructure and heavy industry within the nation, more efficient utilization of natural resources, land, and human labor, developing energy industries (such as coal production and electric power),expanding agricultural production and aimed at increasing farm income and correcting the structural imbalance of the national economy, and improving the balance of payments in the nation through export promotion. While developments are still concentrated in the three key regions of Hebei, Guangzhou, and especially the Yangtze delta, some investment, if rather small, is beginning to trickle down into the rest of the coast and the interior as well.

Internal Problems:
-Backwards compared to the west
-Poor infrastructure
-Communists
-Japan

Economic Status:
-Growing

Military
-The Chinese military has always enjoyed a large budget-with the communists to the north and Japan, still a threat, to the East and South, there has never been any doubt that the Chinese nation needed to protect itself. Aid money, low-cost weapons and munitions, and advisers from the West during the Sino-Japanese war were a godsend for the Chinese army, allowing it to become a far more effective fighting force with more organization and fighting cohesion, if still making use of human wave tactics. Yuan's reforms helped in this respect, with the foundation of a more skilled officer corps and advancement based on merit. However, recently, with China coming under the US nuclear umbrella, which would (hopefully) prevent any attack on Chinese soil, the military budget has seen its first cuts since the war, to the outcry of some officers, for money to fund Yuan's grand vision of China becoming an "Asian tiger"

Army: 1,750,000 Regulars
-600,000 men on the PRC border
-500,000 men on various coastal defense positions
-650,000 men on the Mongolian and Soviet borders
Number of Militia

Navy: TBD

Air Force: TBD

Alliances, Agreements, Pacts, and Trade:

-Sino-American Friendship Pact

Diplomacy:

#RepublicofChina1

To: The United States of America
From: The National Republic of the Congo

We would like to further our relations to the point of forming an alliance between our two nations. We would also like to formerly open a small embassy in or around Washington D.C., with our ambassador being Patrice Lumumba, a dedicated and heavy supporter of our nation, and our relations.

To: Germany
From: UK
If anything needs independence it is Indonesia...

The genocidal atrocities of the Japanese has gone on too long.

Internal Event

With the signing of the treaty of friendship between Germany and Persia the Transcaucasian Army is bolstered and their battleplans now extend south to the Persian border. Likewise in Thrace the armies are readied just in case and bolstered in number.

At the same time Reconnaissance flights over the balkans are doubled to ensure any incoming attack is seen.