2014 A.D: Serenity

2014 of the Gregorian Calendar. What an amazing year with such an amazing history. I would have to say the same thing about all years, but 2014 is our point of divergence for this timeline. 2014. It has a nice sound to it.

Background
Indian-Chinese tensions have been heightening since the end of the "Sino-Indian War" in 1962. Until one day, all hell breaks loose. A cyber-attack on 22 of India's biggest companies is done on August 18th 2014. The hacker, deliberately wants to start a war. They were never identified, but the chaos that ensued was certainly something.

India had blamed China for the cyber-attacks, with relations souring. There was a severe amount of economic damage that occured to the Indian economy, and the country had to do something. They didn't know what, however. On August 31st, 2014 a Chinese ship mishearing directions accidentally open fired on civilians in the city of Chennai.

Hours later, the Republic of India declares war on China. China is seen as the bad guy in Indian media, and almost is potrayed as if they did a second Pearl Harbour.

Years later, this conflict went on to be known as World War III.