Talk:Asia

You know, Japanese expansionism was due in no small part to encouragement from American diplomats who were strong, aggressive, and well-disposed to Japan because an alliance with Tokyo was essential to having a trade route to China capable of rivaling Britain's. I suppose it's not impossible that another country could have stepped into that roll for a different set of motivations in TL-191, or even that the Japanese could discover imperialism on their own, but it could more easily be understood as another of HT's fundamentally flawed assumptions that everything would have stayed the same outside of America and its immediate environs after its WoS defeat. Turtle Fan 08:18, January 1, 2010 (UTC)