The Timeline of the Tiger Unleashed althist
Early Times[]
1956: Zhao Keqiang was born in Shanghai, China, to a Chinese medic and a Vietnamese exchange student.
1966: At age 10, Zhao develop a high level intelligence, especially in natural science area.
1972: Zhao enters the Tsinghua University at age 16.
1973: University freshman Zhao Keqiang befriends a technology genuis named Li Ming.
1976: Zhao and Li Ming graduates from the university together. They immediately start their technology company known as Lianhe, meaning "alliance" in Chinese.
1977: Lianhe Computers starts with Chinese brand
1979: Lianhe I becomes a hit in China and the United States.
1981: Zhao writes a letter to the Vietnamese leader stating his wish to normalize the then-troubled relationship between China and Vietnam and to reestablish peace and stability in the Indochinese peninsula.
1983: Lianhe II appears. This time, this line of computers is created with English brand in order to attract international markets (North American markers in particular).
1984: Li Ming, with help from Zhao Keqiang, invent the first form of the Internet.
1986: Zhao Keqiang visits the Soviet Union. He presents with the Soviet leader the new solutions to open the country to the outside world without ever damaging the socialist structures.
1988: The Mir Space Station becomes operational thanks to the cooperation between China and the Soviet Union. The station is equipped with many Lianhe equipments. Many scientific experiments are conducted on the Mir.
1989: Lianhe Corps becomes one of the world's largest company.
1992: Lianhe experience its first recession following its latest product which is a large flop. Zhao Keqiang, the CEO of the corporation, dismiss rumors of his falling health following the flop.
1995: South Korea makes peace with North Korea.
1997:
- March: The L-Phone (OTL iPhone) smartphone series is released and quickly becomes a household name.
- October: The L-Pad tablet series is launched and becomes the world's best-selling product.
1998: Under the Chinese and Japanese supervision, a free election is held in Korean Peninsula, with former South Korean president elected the first president of the newly christened Unified Korean Republic
1999:
- The war in Serbia escalates into the Balkan War. Soviet Union intervenes and annex the entire Balkan Peninsula. Former Serbian president Slobodan Milosovic goes into retirement.
- Chinese scientists in Lianhe Corps successfully sequence the Human Genome.
2000:
- May: Fear of the Russian incursion into Europe forces the remaining European countries to unite as the European Triumvirate based on the alliance of the Queen of Great Britain, the Pope of Roman Catholic Church and the President of the now Berlin-based European Council. The European Commission and the European Parliament also relocates to Berlin and is acting as the government and the legislature of the Triumvirate. Its triplet capitals are London, Rome and Berlin.
- September: Greenland, having quit its membership with Europe, joins Canada.
- November: Cuba and the Caribbean is incorporated into the now socialist Mexico.
2001: After years of cooperation with Mongolia and Taiwan, China makes a deal to annex these countries as Special Administrative Regions after Hong Kong and Macau
2002:
- February: Japan and Korea merged to establish the Japo-Korean Federation, a dual republic based on the cooperation between the two countries.
- July: In the Vietnamese ancient city of Hue, ASEAN leaders decides to creates a federation between them (except for the Philippines who opt to join the East Asian Federation instead). The federation does not pledge alliance with any other states, instead staying neutral
- September: Australia, New Zealand and several Pacific islands establish the Oceanian Federation.
2003:
- June: India establish alliance with Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan.
- September: Following the US invasion in Iraq and the subsequent repulse by Iran and Turkey, the two countries, along with the rest of the Middle East forms the United Arab Republic, which is basically the newer and more perfect version of the de facto Egypto-Syrian personal union.
- October: In quick response to the United Arab Republic's establishment, Egypt and North African countries establish the Maghreb Union.
- December: The African union is established between the Sub-Saharan African countries.
2009: China helps establishing the Brazilian-based Amazonian Confederate after helping Amazonian countries (including Brazil) to wipe out drug criminals. Meanwhile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Chile form their own union, the Patagonian Forum.
2012: The Green Revolution begins in China, then spreads to Asia and Oceania and later, the world.
2017: Zhao Keqiang dies from cancer, aged 61.
2018: Mission to Mars occurs.