Editing The Post-Apocalyptic Roadmap/China (section)

==Domestic cities==

The Lianong city cluster, with a population of 33.6 million, was reduced to ashes and concrete devastation by two nuclear warheads, in what was probably the largest casualty in the course of the war. Beijing was hit by one nuclear warhead, and Shanghai, originally a nuclear target, narrowly missed being hit.

These victims of war, all large production and economic centers of China, along with the Japanese invasion stretched Chinese resources thinly. Much of western China is thrown into economic limbo, while eastern China is affected by radiation fallout, famine and miscellaneous problems coming from the smoking crater formerly known as Russia. 

Several cities along the Yangtze river report a second outbreak of the bubonic plague, and though these never reach the levels it did during medieval periods, they are never fully treated, either.

The economic crisis in China caused by the loss of foreign markets, oil imports combined with famine and a costly campaign divides the Party Congress between the executive and their supporters and a so-called "liberal socialist" faction. Many purgings, arrests, show trials and executions later, a group of PLA generals stage a coup-detat along with 40% of the army and most of the air force in support of the liberal socialists. The Central Government retains control of the military regions in the center, surrounding hard-hit Shanghai, and most of the nuclear arsenal. The northernmost military region (the best equipped) is undecided and still has many of its units in Japan.
 
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