What historical country would cause the most seethe/drama if it sprang into existence today?

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I'd go with Goguryeo. It's a country that existed around the 000s-600s in northern Korea and Manchuria. So now the Koreans and Chinese both claim it as theirs and accuse each other of stealing their history. Of course the Koreans :marseyjoseon: are right since Manchuria never really was part of China until the 1900s.

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I thought they were part of China since Ming or Qing? :marseyconfused:

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They were always on the periphery of China until the 1600s when the Ming dynasty into trouble. The Manchurians (aka Jurchens) invaded and subjugated China and became the Qing dynasty. The Chinese were understandably butthurt and there were lots of rebellions, secret societies, etc. including the Taiping Rebellion in which several million people were killed. It wasn't until 1911 that the Qing were finally overthrown. Then you get into the warlord era, Manchuria as a pro-Japanese puppet state, WW2. It's really only when the commies took power that Manchuria was fully incorporated into China.

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Yeah but didn’t the Manchu have added Manchuria to China by conquering China, like moved their government and treated Beijing as their capital and imperial center?

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