China: Circa 2003 Post Nukes??

[Dogger]

Hi guys.

I'm currently fishing for idea's as to what China would be like post nuclear exchange around the 2003 time period. (T2K V.1 timeline)

I know that by the time of 2300AD that China will be three nation's. I'm not interested in that far removed result. Instead I'd love to hear ideas on just how bad you think the 'current' (2003 in my game) situation is in China.

If I recall the version 1 timeline indicates that the USSR really plastered China in the first nuclear exchanges and that China pretty much collapsed like a house of cards at that point.

With China's massive population, I'm thinking that when civilization finally fully broke down that major chaos and anarchy reigned and that multiple hundreds of millions died in the nuke attack and subsequent disorder that followed.

Also, as an aside. What do you think happened in Vietnam as a result of China's collapse? Massive invasion by starving irradiated refugees?

Would appreciate hearing any theories, insights, guesses, notions or what if's.

Thanks.

[pmulcahy11b]

I can't remember where I read it (it may be in 2300) but shortly after 2000, China collapsed into set of feudal warlords, none of which had much power further than they could shoot.

My idea for Vietnam is that Cam Ranh Bay and Haiphong would become targets for repeated bombing raids and commando raids. Both sides might want them intact, since they could serve as resupply points for both sides -- for the US in its supplying of China, and by the Soviets as raiding bases against China. I have a blurb on one of my weapon pages (Singaporean Assault Rifles, I think) about an abortive raid against Cam Ranh Bay.