Здравствуйте товарищи! - Greetings comrades! And welcome to a new Hearts of Iron 4 Dev Diary! I hope that you are all having a great summer, and that you are prepared for a little reading, because...
It's just a minor thing in this article, but there's this Western fetish for the balkanisation of China. Every rebellion in China must be imagined as if it could have been successful (there's no Bavarian Soviet Republic in this game, for contrast) and the territory claims of the Republic of China must be delegitimized in favor of warlords and Imperial Japan. Somehow, the Western norms of state sovereignty don't apply here.
It's just a minor thing in this article, but there's this Western fetish for the balkanisation of China. Every rebellion in China must be imagined as if it could have been successful (there's no Bavarian Soviet Republic in this game, for contrast) and the territory claims of the Republic of China must be delegitimized in favor of warlords and Imperial Japan. Somehow, the Western norms of state sovereignty don't apply here.