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Regions transported: Russia (Irkutsk, Buryatia), Mongolia (central and eastern provinces), China, Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia (central provinces), Australia (Western Australia exc. Eucla and surroundings)

After a brief consideration of trying to explain away the Event, the CCP soon decided to embrace the opportunities it presented. Support for larger families was implemented to provide future new consumers to replace the lost export markets as well as a huge potential pool of settlers and labourers to staff the bureaucracies and build the infrastructure required for establishing new provinces across Asia. While the payoff of these expansive policies took some time to gather momentum, the PRC's expansion in one area was lighting fast. While many were still struggling to adapt the new situation, the PLA grabbed the element of surprise, launching a coordinated invasion force across the Taiwan Strait. Within days the Taiwan Special Administrative Region had been established and the Republic of China's leaders had either disappeared or fled south to the Philippines.

China's rapid and dramatic expansion was met with a mixture of concern and interest by their northern neighbours. While Ulaanbaatar soon found itself inexorably sucked into Beijing's orbit, Irkutsk saw the opportunity that Siberia's replenished natural resources and an increasingly resource-hungry China presented. Thus many Russian businessmen grew rich, while their government gained a level of leverage that allowed them to avoid failing under Chinese domination as their Mongolian neighbours had. Nevertheless, China's growing presence north of the Amur and in central Asia made practical expressions of independence increasingly difficult as all communications with nations to the south had to be routed through Chinese conduits.

Immediately to China's south, Manila was conflicted regarding its new Taiwanese guests. While many were sympathetic and had no desire to pander to the CCP, others saw them as a security risk and argued that by continuing to host the ROC-in-exile, the Philippines would put itself next on China's invasion list. Ultimately, the latter viewpoint won out, and focus turned towards the virgin islands to the east. Attitudes towards China were warmer in Singapore, home to the largest Chinese population outside China, and Malaysia, with the two nations becoming important destinations for Chinese goods and investment. Another recipient of Chinese yuan was the government of Indonesia, increasingly in need of funding for the construction of their new capital city in East Kalimantan. To many Indonesians, their government's focus on Kalimantan at, what they saw as, the expense of other islands, and the role of Chinese money in that development, created a sense of alienation and abandonment. Soon many provinces were only paying lip service to their subordination to the central government, while those in Sumatra stopped even the pretence of loyalty as they declared their independence from Indonesia.

While Sumatra was establishing itself apart from Indonesia, others made the individual decision to cross the Timor Sea in significant numbers such that Malays soon became the predominant ethnic group in northern Australia. Western Australia's government had been granting mining, farming and settlement concessions across the continent, creating an Outback boom fuelled by resource exports to China. Two other groups of settlers in Oceania were less well inclined to China though, with the ROC re-establishing itself in northern New Guinea after their expulsion from the Philippines, while New Britain was established by the remnants of Hong Kong's democracy movement and those who could use their legacy BNO passports to leave the PRC.

Description
Regions transported: Russia (Irkutsk, Buryatia), Mongolia (central and eastern provinces), China, Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia (central provinces), Australia (Western Australia exc. Eucla and surroundings)

After a brief consideration of trying to explain away the Event, the CCP soon decided to embrace the opportunities it presented. Support for larger families was implemented to provide future new consumers to replace the lost export markets as well as a huge potential pool of settlers and labourers to staff the bureaucracies and build the infrastructure required for establishing new provinces across Asia. While the payoff of these expansive policies took some time to gather momentum, the PRC's expansion in one area was lighting fast. While many were still struggling to adapt the new situation, the PLA grabbed the element of surprise, launching a coordinated invasion force across the Taiwan Strait. Within days the Taiwan Special Administrative Region had been established and the Republic of China's leaders had either disappeared or fled south to the Philippines.

China's rapid and dramatic expansion was met with a mixture of concern and interest by their northern neighbours. While Ulaanbaatar soon found itself inexorably sucked into Beijing's orbit, Irkutsk saw the opportunity that Siberia's replenished natural resources and an increasingly resource-hungry China presented. Thus many Russian businessmen grew rich, while their government gained a level of leverage that allowed them to avoid failing under Chinese domination as their Mongolian neighbours had. Nevertheless, China's growing presence north of the Amur and in central Asia made practical expressions of independence increasingly difficult as all communications with nations to the south had to be routed through Chinese conduits.

Immediately to China's south, Manila was conflicted regarding its new Taiwanese guests. While many were sympathetic and had no desire to pander to the CCP, others saw them as a security risk and argued that by continuing to host the ROC-in-exile, the Philippines would put itself next on China's invasion list. Ultimately, the latter viewpoint won out, and focus turned towards the virgin islands to the east. Attitudes towards China were warmer in Singapore, home to the largest Chinese population outside China, and Malaysia, with the two nations becoming important destinations for Chinese goods and investment. Another recipient of Chinese yuan was the government of Indonesia, increasingly in need of funding for the construction of their new capital city in East Kalimantan. To many Indonesians, their government's focus on Kalimantan at, what they saw as, the expense of other islands, and the role of Chinese money in that development, created a sense of alienation and abandonment. Soon many provinces were only paying lip service to their subordination to the central government, while those in Sumatra stopped even the pretence of loyalty as they declared their independence from Indonesia.

While Sumatra was establishing itself apart from Indonesia, others made the individual decision to cross the Timor Sea in significant numbers such that Malays soon became the predominant ethnic group in northern Australia. Western Australia's government had been granting mining, farming and settlement concessions across the continent, creating an Outback boom fuelled by resource exports to China. Two other groups of settlers in Oceania were less well inclined to China though, with the ROC re-establishing itself in northern New Guinea after their expulsion from the Philippines, while New Britain was established by the remnants of Hong Kong's democracy movement and those who could use their legacy BNO passports to leave the PRC.