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by qsmi 1635 days ago
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3540136/

Looks like people were not too impressed. I haven't seen it but from the description it looks like Chinese special forces fighting drug lords who happen to be American, not really the same thing.

Interestingly, just the other day I was reading a Tom Clancy novel and thought, surely other countries must've wrote novels or made movies where the Americans loose WWIII, or whatever. I'd be interested in a recommendation. I'm really curious how others see it going down. Although maybe it's boring, i.e. Luke gets to the end of the trench, and misses...

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I dimly remember a story about a wrong number phone call connecting a man with a woman in an alternate universe where the Japanese won WWII. Unfortunately both my memory and my Google-fu are failing me on identifying the source.
A wild guess but "The Man in the High Castle"? I could be wrong, because the phone call doesn't happen in the novel by Philip K. Dick that the Netflix show is based on and I haven't watched the show. However, the premise is alternate history of Japanese winning WWII.
In the story I remember, the parallel universe is discovered when they agree to meet at an important landmark building in New York - but they never meet, because in her universe the original building was destroyed by a bomb that hit New York and the building was rebuilt in a new location.
"Out of this World" (1964) by Alfred Bester. Here's a stackoverflow post: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/251779/phone-calls...
From what I've seen it mostly it's Americans writing about the US losing the next world war in fictional books like Ghost fleet: A Novel of the Next World War or Twilight's Last Gleaming.