Republic of China

The Republic of China is a nation in Asia and the most populous country in the world. it borders the Russian Republic, the Mongolia, Jammu & Kashmir, Laos, the Soviet Union, Tibet, Korea, the Islamic State of Turkestan, Afghanistan, Burma, and Vietnam.

For some time now, the Republic of China has stood as Asia's rising potential hegemon ever since Japan fell, outside the looming outside power of the United States.

History
For China the war against the Japanese began in 1937 after the Marco Polo Bridge incident, starting the Second Sino Japanese War. Chinese forces would find themselves fighting virtually alone until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

China would find itself on the winning side of The Pacific War along with the United States and The British  Commonwealth after eight long years of war with Japan.

After the defeat of the People's Republic in the Chinese Civil War, communists were brutally suppressed in the swift relaunch of the White Terror from the KMT government. This has caused Communist supporters and former members to flee north into Mongolian Peoples Republic as well as south into the recently created communist Vietnam for protection.

Politics
While internally Chiang Kai Shek gives the impression of a powerful, unified Nationalist party ruling China with unity and efficiency and with himself at the top, the truth is far from that. The KMT itself is a mess of conflicting figures and interests, not to mention warlords still holding considerable power over their provinces. Chiang may be at the top, but he struggles to hold together these competing interests.

Military
The National Revolutonary Army serves as the armed forces of the Republic of China, and on paper it is quite the formidable force indeed. With hundreds of divisions under its command after the divisional reorganization upon the defeat of the communists. The NRA is, in theory, is a force capable of not only defending China from foreign aggressors but also a force which can be used to once again project China's influnce across all of Asia.

In practice, however, the NRA is a ragtag force of militias and semi-professional forces, with large sections of the military being beyond the control of Chiang and the central government. The army is effectively split between the central government and several large local powers within China. These powers, the Guangxi Clique, The Shanxi Clique, Xibei Si MA, the Yunnan CLique, and the Dongbei Authority will be reluctant to commit their personal forces to any conflict, and convincing them to submit to the authority of the central government will be no easy task.