Timeline: Mingtian

Mingtian, also known as Míngtiān, 明天, or Tomorrow, is a timeline written and developed by Vatiman. The timeline follows a hypothetical scenario where global Chinese influence begins to surge, and the United States of America's former glory soon begins to weaken as China's importance in the economic and geopolitical community skyrockets. Additionally, China has began brainwashing African children, primarily Malians, Ghanaians, Moroccans, and Senegalese, into believing that the United States is a weak country built on lies, fascism, and lack of cooperation between the two opposing political parties - the Democrats and Republicans. This has led to several youth majorities in Africa into believing that a one-party, socialist-like system is the key to true cooperation and prosperity in the world. Meanwhile, tensions between the United States and Russia slowly ramp up as many threats are thrown about by the leaders of both incredibly powerful states.

World War III is seemingly inevitable as thousands migrate to peaceful countries such as Iceland and Pacific islands to escape their fate. Formerly neutral countries, such as Turkmenistan, abolish their policies of neutrality in a method of achieving importance in international politics. Climate change worsens by the day as the ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica boil faster. Countries such as North Korea and Pakistan begin mass-manufacturing nuclear weapons to scare other countries into submitting to their demands. The European Union is unstable as support for Frexit and Spexit rises exponentially with the success of Brexit.

Despite everything that's happened up to this point, this is not the end for the world. There is more of us in the future - tomorrow.

2020
29 December 2020: COVID-19 vaccinations are at the tips of the public's fingertips as it enters its second phase of experimentation. The World Health Organization (WHO) makes an official statement, estimating that the vaccine should be released by May of 2021.

2021
3 January 2021: Formal petitions are produced in support of the impeachment of Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City. These petitions are primarily made due to his lack of acknowledgement of the veterans' D-Day ceremonies and the Puerto Rican Day Parade, and for his treatment of New York police and surge in crime. 9 January 2021: The first attack linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant of the year is committed, taking place at an undisclosed military base in Kolokani, Mali. 18 Malian forces and 25 forces of the Islamic State were killed in the exchange. The Islamic State confirmed that they were directly linked to this attack on the tenth of January, stating that they had planned to take control of the base to ship arms to their base of operations in Tonka, Mali. The operation failed.

13 January 2021: The Cabinet of Joseph Biden, forty-sixth president of the United States, is finalized by his transition team. He, along with his Cabinet, will be inaugurated on 20 January 2021.

17 January 2021: The Islamic State establishes two new, secluded branches of their organization in Eritrea and Mozambique. The former would go on to start the Eritrean Civil War.

20 January 2021: Joseph Biden is inaugurated as the forty-sixth president of the United States of America, along with his vice president Kamala Harris and his Cabinet.

29 January 2021: Nineteen Eritrean civilians are gunned down by a member of the Islamic State, injuring thirteen and killing six. The Eritrean government grow suspicious of an Islamist movement in Eritrea, though make no official announcements regarding the massacre.

4 February 2021: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's rover Perseverance lands on Mars.

9 February 2021: The COVID-19 pandemic results in the crashing of the oil market, devastating several economies in the Middle East including Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Yemen, Jordan, Iraq, and Syria. A movement in Saudi Arabia begins development, with their cause being the establishment of a proper Saudi Arabian economy that doesn't rely entirely on oil. This movement was known as the Arabian Economic Reform Community (AERC).

17 February 2021: Cameroon and Nigeria begin to organize programs to weaken or fully eliminate the Salafist jihad organization of Boko Haram in West Africa.

25 February 2021: The Islamic State confirms that they were directly linked to the massacre in Eritrea in late January.

28 February 2021: The Eritrean government declares war on the Islamic State in Eritrea for the massacring of nineteen Eritrean civilians. The African Union and the United Nations also assist Eritrea through economic and arms production.

2 March 2021: The Ethiopian government begins to secretly funnel arms and funding into the Islamic State in Eritrea, requesting that should the Islamic State succeed in establishing an Islamic caliphate in Eritrea, that Ethiopia receive some territory on their border. The Islamic State accepts.

8 March 2021: The Houthi movement in Yemen successfully take control of Sana'a, forcing the Yemeni government to move their capital and evacuate their leader to Aden, the new capital of Yemen on its coast.

14 March 2021: India initiates its first manned space mission. In response, China announces that it will be initiating its first mission on Mars in July 2021.

19 March 2021: Chinese president Xi Jinping officially announces his "eternal presidency" of China. Many media outlets and reporters accuse of China of becoming a dictatorship similar to its close ally North Korea.