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 Perhaps the Chinese were among those "bombed out of existence?"  Or maybe they faced the worst part of supply shortages due to their size?
-*Of course, there's a lot of reasons why there aren't many Chinese people represented in Star Trek, but it just seems such a strange thing to not mention. Although verisimilitude (and international appeal) might well be served by tactfully not naming the nation-state with whom the United States and her allies fought, the idea that there would be essentially none just strikes me as very strange.
-It's entirely possible that China suffered both the most severe of the nuclear strikes by a significant margin, and the survivors just couldn't make it in the post-nuclear world. This would be a sad end to one of Earth's most ancient civilizations.
+*Of course, there's a lot of reasons why there aren't many Chinese people represented in Star Trek, but it just seems such a strange thing to not mention. Although verisimilitude (and international appeal) might well be served by tactfully not naming the nation-state with whom the United States and her allies fought, the idea that there would be essentially none just strikes me as very strange. It's entirely possible that China suffered both the most severe of the nuclear strikes by a significant margin, and the survivors just couldn't make it in the post-nuclear world. This would be a sad end to one of Earth's most ancient civilizations.