Fallout Brainstorming

Throughout the years, I've been considering making a pre-War Fallout map. However, before I do such a thing, I want to present everyone with the ideas I have and open this to discussion. I'm sure a lot of you out there know more about Fallout than I do, so feel free to add, critique, and correct these. 

• The Sino-Soviet split is "reversed" in this timeline, and the original basis for the split (China believing that Moscow wasn't taking a hard enough line with the West) never changes. While the Soviets reform and open up to America. Perhaps Richard Nixon (who was president in the Fallout universe) himself is behind this, eager to take advantage of the split between Moscow and Beijing. China never reforms, or its reforms are limited and scaled back by hardliners down the road, while Moscow enters a tense, fluctuating "frenemy" relationship with the United States. In fact, the relationship is not unlike OTL relations between the West and Russia after the fall of the USSR. However, the Soviets and the Chinese are ultimately still aligned by the eve of the Great War, although the Soviets play second fiddle to China. I'm guessing that Sino-Soviet relations healed, while Soviet-American ones worsened, in the decades leading up to the War. 
• I think that the European Commonwealth was not as large as OTL's European Union, and only composed the NATO member states during the Cold War. Being an eternal Fifites timeline, I don't think the Warsaw Pact would fall. However, the European Commonwealth eventually takes its own path, and NATO is no longer a consideration by the time of the Great War. Otherwise, there would be more American intervention in the region. I think that the end of the Resource Wars brings total war between the member states of the European Commonwealth and the Warsaw Pact, perhaps even with Soviet involvement. 
• Matching the importance of China, America's strongest strategic allies are in the East. Japan, South Korea, and the Republic of China are economic and military powerhouses, and are organized along the same lines as the pre-War United States. The Philippines, Thailand, and maybe South Vietnam are weaker, but still filled to the brim with American troops. Their governments may even be controlled by, or part of, the Enclave. 
• India is largely non-aligned with the Sino-American cold war, but they prefer the Americans to the Chinese on the basis that they're further away. Their concerns are more with Pakistan, which has exited the American alliance system entirely when they felt that the United States was taking too soft a stance on the Soviets. India and Pakistan get into a nuclear war themselves during the Great War, and are hardly better off than other parts of the world. 
• The Middle East is a total mess after the Resource Wars. Israel, which I see staying within the American sphere, would be one of the last states in the Middle East to have positive relations with the West. The rest is dominated, not by Islamists, but by left-leaning Arab nationalists in the mold of Nasser. I'm not sure if Iran, a staunch American ally until the decidedly un-Fifties 1979 revolution, would join that fun. Perhaps Iran remains an American ally, but is basically left to rot when the Resource Wars roll around.