Command & Conquer: Generals is a real-time strategy game with an isometric view. The plot takes place in 2020. Global Liberating Army (GLA) troops stage a terrorist attack at a parade in Beijing and steal a nuclear warhead, subsequently detonating it. This was the reason for the invasion of Chinese territory. China, having mobilized troops, is forced to repel the invaders, at the same time the GLA blows up the Three Gorges Dam and the Hong Kong Exhibition Center. China is displacing GLA troops from its territory, the latter are settling in the territories of Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, and are destabilizing the situation there, seizing key strategic objects. Ultimately, the GLA takes over the Baikonur Cosmodrome and attacks the United States and Europe with missiles containing the chemical, poisoning everything around it. Because of this terrorist attack, the US goes to war against the GLA forces.
The United States is mobilizing troops in the Middle East and transferring them to Kazakhstan. With Chinese support, the US destroys the last GLA base.