The Democratic Chinese Alliance (中国民主联盟） is "Southern" China or all territory South of the Yangtze River with the exception of a divided Hong Kong. The DCA is the pro-democratic element of the People's Republic of China after its division in 1990 (TSR EP03). While the exact reasons for cessesion are not outright stated, they were probably inspired by the Tianamen Square protests of 1989 which was violently put down by the People's Liberation Army. After a period of five year warring, in 1995, both factions created a ceasefire that divided Hong Kong into occupation zones similar to East and West Berlin. By the time of TSR (1998) both factions began negotiating extension of this ceasfire. Both United States and Soviet Union deeply wish both factions to reunite and heavily back Mithril to all