A lot of work have been done recently... I'll be able to show the new tech-tree soon, major changes have been done there.
About France...
As I speak Red France is finished, leaders, tech-teams have been redone to fit more the situation. Most of the professional leadership fled with Whites in Algeria Red France finds itself with a load of less experimented commanders who compensate with the innovativeness that wishes to create revolutionary tactics for a revolutionary army. On the tech-team level, France has been overhauled and should field a efficient army especially if they share they knowledge with their German ally.
Red France has four political paths and three major diplomatic-warmongering paths that depends on their relations with their German ally and the decisions of the 3rd International. They can also have some chances of reconciliation with the nationalists if they find someone wishing to make compromises.
In China...
Some efforts where put to make the warlords more interesting to play this time so if you ever wanted to have enough time to wage war as one of them this could be your thing...
Thanks to clanjay China improvement graphic pack (that you can find on the CCIP thread) most minister picks for China are a way better.
But the major improvements that needed a bit of researches are the two additional cliques that comes with brand new leaders and "ministers". I doubt they're 100% accurate but I was hard enough to find them as a non-chinesse speaker.
Feng Yuxiang's Northern army (Guominjun) :
Hu Jingyi and Sun Yue uses generic pictures as I was unable to find them.
The Sichuan clique :
Back to Europe... some map changes have been done...
Austria-Hungary now controls Serbia and Montenegro as puppet states, this made more sense as both are orthodox and that the empire is suffering enough with all its different nationalities.
Poland :
Poland is far from begin an harmless nation and is now a raising power in eastern Europe that used the vacuum left by the collapse of Russia to enlarge it's territories while making Belarus it's puppet.
They also maintain good relation with the A-H empire that seceded them all their claims instead of risking eternal chaos at the frontier with Poles eager to recover Krakov and Gallicia.
They also managed to take a few of the Germans territories during the end WW1 chaos, this have created severe tensions with the small Prussian state controlled by the White Germans in the north that only exists because they British wanted to keep a "legitimate" (at least for them) german state alive that could allow them to base their fleet in the Baltic.