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}}The Great Asian War is a conflict that erupts between the [[Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere|Co-Prosperity Sphere]] and the [[National Liberation Front]] sometime after the Fall of Nanjing to the [[National Protection Army]] (NPA), though some may argue that the Great Asian War started in the beginning of the Western Insurrection between the [[Republic of China]] and NPA.

While governor of Xinan, [[Lu Han]] was away from his office on vacation, his cousin and former governor of Yunnan, [[Long Yun]] launched a coup against him and gathered the men needed to do so, taking control of the province and leading the NPA. The rapid military buildup to liberate China from what Long Yun saw as [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]] puppets caused significant concern to the [[Republic of China|Republican government]] in Nanjing, who sent the NPA an ultimatum, demanding that the province stand down or there will be war.

Ultimately, this ultimatum would be rejected, kickstarting the Western Insurrection. Due to the extreme manpower inequality between the two belligerents, an AI-controlled NPA would usually capitulate within a few months, with neither side garnering enough support to gain any allies. However, a player controlling either the [[Republic of China|Republic]] or [[National Protection Army|NPA]] could change that, either forcing a quicker victory if playing Nanjing, or prompting a [[Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere|Co-Prosperity Sphere]] Intervention if playing Long Yun and pushing all the way into Nanjing, capitulating the republic.

Despite [[Japan|Japanese]] victory above [[China]], however, many in [[China]] continued to feel resentment against Tokyo, refusing to accept the outcome of the war and even relocating westwards, most notably including the [[National Revolutionary Army]] (NRA) [[NRA 24th Army|24th]] and [[NRA 40th Army Group|40th]] Armies, who refuserefused to surrender despite the establishment of a new [[collaborationist Republic of China]] based in Nanjing.

One of the many warlords who surrendered to the [[Japan|Japanese]] in hopes of protecting their people was [[Long Yun]], who was forced to give up his position of Governor of [[Yunnan]] to his cousin, [[Lu Han]], though he continued to remain influential within the government in Kunming.

Sometime between TNO's starting date and the end of [[World War II|World War Two]], some members of the [[National Revolutionary Army|NRA]] felt that it was simply not enough for them, as they retreated and continued to resist in the mountains. Instead, members left to form the closely associated [[National Protection Army]], an [[Ultranationalism|ultranationalist]] group with largely the same goals as the NRA, to liberate [[China]] from [[Japan|Japanese]] influence, albeit operating under much more covert circumstances in Yunnan due to their distance away from their NRA counterparts in Xikang and Burma.

Together with other [[National Revolutionary Army|NRA]] divisions, bandits that happened to be in the area and remnant [[Chinese Communist Party| (CCP]]) militias, the [[National Protection Army|NPA]] continued sabotage operations across southwestern China, causing problems in administration and development in the region, which made the organisation feared through the spreading of urban legends.

By the 1960s, the majority of the [[National Protection Army]], [[National Revolutionary Army]], [[Chinese Communist Party]] and other southwestern bandits were countered by [[YunnanGovernor Province|Yunnan]] governor [[Lu Han]]'s plans to develop and modernise the province, employing militia and guards to counter their influences and effects on the state, while also massively developing the province economically to be on par with the rest of the [[Co-Prosperity Sphere|Sphere]]'s goals.

In his development plans, however, [[Lu Han]] had alienated the administration from the common populace due to the brutal slave policies implemented. His popularity plummeted as slavery was institutionalised and the efforts on repressing the political freedoms of the province increased several fold.

Behind the scenes, the [[National Protection Army]] had already been planning for a Western Insurrection against the [[China|Nanjing government]], as part of their plan to fully liberate [[China]] from [[Japan|Japanese]] imperialism. However, without a strong leader to guide the organisation, the plan remained idle and untouched for decades. With [[Long Yun]] accepting the invitation to the role of leader of the [[National Protection Army|NPA]] in 1965, however, the plan was set into motion, preparing for a takeover of the [[Yunnan Province]].

[[Long Yun]]'s [[National Protection Army|NPA]] began to garner the extensive support from the remnants of the [[National Revolutionary Army|NRA]] (then led by Sun-Li Jen and Li Mi) and the [[Chinese Communist Party|CCP]] who had sought refuge with the [[Viet Minh]] since the defeat at Chongqing, all of which gradually increased the control of [[National Protection Army|NPA]] and [[National Protection Army|NPA]]-sympathetic politicians across the provincial government, culminating in a coup against the governor after a vacation from government affairs by [[Long Yun]] himself.