My assumption is China has control of Japan and thus their innovation and tech.
Plus I was also looking more to current China than to Maoist China. A little artistic license if you will.
But the one aspect I'm most fascinated in in my timeline is the US aerospace industry.
During WW2 the US aerospace turned out some incredibly complex and innovative aircraft (notably the B-29). But after the end of WW2 US aerospace engineers and designers were able to see what Nazi Germany was working on and very few aersospace engineers were working on these levels (The one exception might have been Jack Northrop who's flying wings seemed designed without the aid of Nazi tech).
But Nazi research, tech and scientists acquired after the war literally upended the US aerospace industry. Swept wing aircraft and turbojet development are but two of the major things that US engineers learned from the Nazi research. Of course the space industry is completely different with most of the US ICBMs all the way through the Space Shuttle being influenced if not outrightly designed by former Nazi Scientists.
So without their input I wonder if the US aerospace industry would have developed as quickly?
Id imagine that through espionage many of these innovations would have been revealed, but it would have taken more time. Further, not to discredit the US own aerospace engineers, I imagine that many of these ideas would have come about naturally.
One more wrinkle to consider: THe main reason Germany pushed so hard for Jet Tech was because they were losing the war and needed quick measures to turn it around. After 1944 the German aerospace industry as a whole was engaged in research and development of jets and rockets. The ME262, while under development since at least 1942, was given priority by 1944 as Germany saw it is a way to turn the the tide agains the bombers and superior fighters like the late model Spirtfires and P-51s.
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