People's Republic of China

In 1976 after the capitulation of South Vietnam and the unification into one communist state, the stability of the region shattered. Most notably, the second Chinese Civil War. This time, the United States of America was unable to help. Going through difficult times itself, with an extremely entrenched anti-war platform in both the public and politics, they could only watch as the Republic of China was swept by communist forces. The Soviet Union, long quiet on the world stage, reawakened and assisted the People’s Republic, and within a year, the entirety of China had become communist. Only a US Pacific Fleet protected their retreat into Taiwan, where they entered exile. After the complete establishment of a communist state, China went on to mass produce weapons with the assistance of the Soviet Union and forge itself into both a military and economic superpower. In 2009, the Chinese conceptualized a coalition of Asian socialist states to promote socialism on the Asian continent and beyond which was only put into practice in 2013 when North Korea and Vietnam formally agreed to membership in the Asian Socialist Union.