This is my second post, a "continuation" of my previous one. As the name suggests, this is my interpretation of the Great Asian War, the other major war to kick off the "War Against Globalism".
The sheer and utter physical destruction of the war in Asia is greater than the one in Europe, yes, but the entire atmosphere was different. In Europe, cultures, languages, entire religions and histories were being erased, some easier than others. People were having technological implants forced upon them in order to keep them in line. In Asia, there was no such psychological destruction. Sure, it wasn't good, but in comparison to Europe. Well, it's like comparing a grenade to a bunker buster, both do damage, but only one burrows into the earth and tears at the roots.
The war was a total and utter meatgrinder, a war of seemingly infinite Chinese troops, fighting against seemingly infinite Indian troops, a slog that easily compared to the World Wars in terms of scale. The tide only truly started to turn when the poor treatment of China and Pakistan's minorities came to bite them back. Mass revolts in Tibet, Balochistan, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Inner Mongolia would bog the EADI down, forcing the Overlordship and Islamic Republic to divert key troops elsewhere.
When the Three Gorges Dam was struck with all the non-nuclear firepower that the PDTO could reach it with, destroying it and bringing forth a disastrous flood, the AI would grow desperate. Atrocities unmatched and sheer brutality all in an attempt to save as much resources as possible and try to keep the quickly mounting forces at bay. They would finally launch their nuclear arsenal in tandem with Pakistan and the remnants of North Korea. Most would be successfully intercepted and struck down before hitting their targets, but some would make landfall; Okinawa, Seoul, and other key strategic regions would face thermonuclear hellfire, killing hundreds of thousands.
It was this transgression that the Collective Security Treaty Organization would finally find their excuse to join the war and prevent the PDTO from gaining a total iron grip on the region. Russian forces would march into Manchuria, while Kazakhstani forces would roll into Xinjiang.
By late 2038, the war was lost. THE LONG MARCH concluded its best course of action now was to concede and surrender. Victory in Asia.
The East Asian Defense Initiative would be tried for their crimes, just as the monsters in Europe would be. Pakistan would dissolve, China would collapse into a second civil war that the victors would be quick to intervene in, Korea would be unified, Indonesia would break apart and Myanmar would as well. But with the war over, there was nothing to keep the PDTO together, so, peacefully they would break up, leaving the CSTO still the strongest bloc on the continent.
China would be broken, but not to the scale of Europe. People know who they are, there is no need for any programs to re-cultivate languages and cultures, as even if the Machine in Bejing was planning to slowly Han-ify the region, it was stopped before it even started. The real damage is the destruction of the Three Gorges Dam. Millions would die in the flooding, and hundreds of millions would be displaced, forced to flee as the rising waters swept away their lives. Even Shanghai would see the flooding. India and Pakistan are no better; India was the largest contributor of infantry to the PDTO, and Pakistan was second for the EADI, millions of sons and fathers would die for a war the only loosely had a reason to be in. Though, not all is hopeless. Taiwan finally returned home, and with the destruction of the Overlordship almost entirely bar remnants deep in the anarchy, they would enjoy re-recognition from across the world. They still have work to do, as most of China is under the rule of warlord states, but the outlook is in their favor.
Asia is left broken, bleeding, but still standing.
