Contrafactual Happy birthday to Zhou Enlai, the first Premier of the Peoples Republic of China, serving from October 1949 until becoming the second paramount leader after Mao drowned while exercising in the early 60s. The first few years in power were spent dealing with the escalating conflicts in Southeast Asia, and a slow rebuilding of ties with the Soviets, but in 1966, he announced the Cultural Revolution with the slogan It is Glorious to get rich! In 1972 he had his greatest triumph, when US President Nixon General Secretary Brezhnev signed the Treaty of Peking, which saw the end of military conflict in Southeast Asia and demilitarized the Germanies . By this point, the Peoples Republic was being called a social democracy, and with an easing of tensions between all three great powers, it appeared the Cold War was over. Zhou retired in 75, shortly before his death, leaving Hua Guofeng as the head of state.But the impeachment of Richard Nixon and his replacement by Vice President Ronald Reagan started a new Cold War, in which the US tried to bury communism in an escalating arms race. This forced the Asian Powers, and even left leaning European states such as Italy (which were racked by terrorism from CIA funded Catholics, Facsist, and a Mafiosi lead separatist movement, and even Basque terrorists in Spain after Francos death, and Neonazi in Germany and even in Alsase-Lorraine, support for the Catholic elements in the IRA, and finally, sending US troops to support the Shia against the Communist regime that replaced the Shah) to allay together. The main result was the UN sponsored Heavenly Peace program, ostensibly, and profitably, to exploit the resources of space, but incidentally, to establish a place wherein the UN (which the four remaining veto powers had transformed into a genuine union of social democratic states after the withdrawal of the US, Israel, and the Arab monarchies) could militarily dominate the earth as far as being able to destroy something gives one power over it. But the Chinese and Russian (and German and Japanese) lead economic miracles proved too much, especially after the first iron nickel asteroid was brought into earth orbit, with, incidentally, enough gold and silver to increase the supply by 20%. After and after failing to deal with the Great Depression (which was confined to the US) and invading Iran, Reagan was defeated by Edward Kennedy in 1980, who in turn was succeeded, after being assassinated by a deranged movie fan, by MLK, who lead US into the UN. youtube/watch?v=L8FfEjWgaJw
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 03:23:52 +0000
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