I will respond to questions privately over PM, ya'll are certainly keeping me busy this time, which I have no complaints about.
Regarding TheLastJacobite, I've lost complete contact with him over the past two weeks, I'm trying to restore contact, but so far unsuccessfully. If you have diplomacy for him, I will be currently managing his affairs as an NPC nation.
Regarding communist China, a quick summary would be the view crezth expressed. However, let's in character with this timeline. Yes, the republic would hold elections and so forth and the communists would compete. But their influences have been from the rising Socialist International. Members at these meetings have thoroughly expressed the opinion that true social change can only come through violent revolution. Democracy is believed to have failed, looking at Venezuela and Pennsylvania as nations where Socialist Parties have achieved power but failed to act in coherence with the rest of the socialist world. Elections cannot be relied on to support communism, and democracy is an outdated and unwanted notion. There is one probable change though. They may control a good deal of territory, but in my studies I find it unlikely that they can have the mass support that they had in RL at the moment. If some other person would care to debate my opinions on the Chinese communist, please do it via PM.
That's a fair assessment I suppose as long as we agree they have little mass support (which them seemingly suddenly getting out of nowhere was one of the bigger issues I had with the whole event) but giving you gave no In-character answer to my diplomacy, is it safe to assume that's a "no" on the possibility of a cease-fire?