Rise of the Reds Update #54: The East is Red news

After the People's Liberation Army had come to the rescue of Europe and destroyed the GLA terrorists that had occupied several German cities, the future looked promising for China: With the United States in isolation, the wrecked European Union at the mercy of Beijing's policy makers and the GLA driven back into obscurity, the Middle Kingdom had become the de-facto leading superpower of the world. But when the fighting came to an end after almost a decade of constant warfare and tens of thousands of brave soldiers sacrificed in battle, the damage China had sustained was still considerable: The sealed-off atomic crater in Tiananmen Square was still a visible scar in the country's national psyche and the destruction of the Three Gorges Dam had flooded several cities along the Yangtze River including Shanghai, not to mention the loss of the most important hydro-electric power plant which necessitated the rapid construction of several new nuclear plants. The Party government had gone into excessive lengths in order to keep the population disciplined, engaging in large-scale country-wide propaganda operations to maintain a facade of total invulnerability which allowed China to accomplish a literal miracle and delay the fallout of an economic downturn for the duration of the total, all-encompassing war effort.

The risky gambit payed off: The majority of the 1.4 billion population endured the hardships with seemingly unshaking resolve. Such gallantry did not go unnoticed by China's neighbours in the South-East. They too bought into the elaborate ploy that the People's Republic had become an invincible juggernaut whose progress could never be hindered. In addition, many positions of their governments had been covertly infiltrated by Beijing's agents long before the war ended. Thus, China met little to no political resistance when it came forward with the creation of a supranational commonwealth to fully represent the interests of Asia on a global scale in 2031. The original proposals refered to this new organisation as the "Socialist South Asian Nations", or "SSAN" for short but the name didn't catch on: 2030s China had developed to a point where it no longer resembled any definition of socialism, instead mixing elements of thinly veiled state capitalism, Asian nationalism, traditional philosophy, technocratic social engineering and fanatical state-worship into a distinctly Chinese system. Eventually, the new entity was dubbed the "Greater Asian Peoples Alliance", which grew to include most of continental Asia between the Russian Federation, the ambivalent Republic of India and the war-torn Korean Peninsula which had erupted into open conflict soon after the American retreat. Predictably, the GAPA was not conceived on fair terms and was largely skewed in favour of Beijing, allowing China to recover from the aftershocks of the global war on terror just in time for the global African resource rush in 2037.

Courtesy of the Ministry of State Security, Speaker Towers can now be upgraded with ECM jammers.
This allows the fragile towers to deflect incoming missiles in their immediate surroundings, providing upright citizens with a shield of protection against cowardly attacks in addition to broadcasting uplifting messages for the happiness of all.

Jammer Towers will later become an exclusive feature of Secret Police General Jin, but we will give you an early opportunity to deploy them as part of the regular Chinese tech tree in the upcoming version 1.7!

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That's all for today!

-SWR Team