Late last month, Kremlingames completed another of its more recent updates for China: Mao’s Legacy. That game’s last DLC, The Fallen Eagle, has recently been expanded to increase the depth of the player’s ability to have Europe abandon the EU/NATO, promoting a Socialistic model of European Integration. Now, all of Europe can be persuaded to establish a Socialist Europe, becoming a power bloc independent of the CMEA/Warsaw Pact and the Empire of Liberty. Euroscepticism in this context is equated with opposition to the Neoliberal project of the EU/NATO as part of the broader Empire of Liberty.

The Empire of Liberty could be forced into Isolationism, resulting in it becoming the sort of “Fortress America” that FDR would have created if the Second World War went in another direction. This can happen if the EU/NATO collapses, which can be manipulated based on how the player pivots China’s engagements with the rest of the world. Certain countries in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia feature a number of events related to their histories where China could steer in a direction that benefits itself, the Soviets, the Jeffersonians, or in favor of neutrality. Chinese relations with the Soviet Union have far greater impact on the direction of European Integration in ways that I did not anticipate two months ago. Now, it is possible for the EU/NATO to expand or contract in different ways in response to specific historical events.

So far, I have been experimenting with the new updates to see what was changed and what else was introduced. I can guarantee that the game has gotten more challenging. Long-term planning is becoming a necessity in order to play it, which I do not, because I can imagine how frustrating it could be for some people.

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