During the Meiji Restoration, Japan embarked on the capitalist road, actively invaded and expanded abroad, and determined a "mainland policy" centered on China. At this time, the Qing Dynasty was an empire that regained light through the Westernization Movement, with political corruption and people living in poverty.
1894, the East Learning Party uprising broke out in North Korea, and the North Korean government forces were successively defeated and forced to ask for help from the sovereign state of the Qing Dynasty. Japan also took the opportunity to send troops to North Korea and deliberately provoked war.
1On July 25th, 894, the naval battle of Toyota broke out and the Sino-Japanese War began. Because the Japanese had planned for a long time, the Qing Dynasty rushed to fight, and the war ended with the defeat of China and the annihilation of the Beiyang Navy. Under the military pressure of Japanese militarism, the Qing government in China signed the treaty of shimonoseki in April 1895.
The result of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 brought unprecedented national crisis to the Chinese nation and greatly deepened the degree of semi-colonization of China society. On the other hand, it has made Japan's national strength stronger and laid an important foundation for it to become a big country.
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China: The failure of the Sino-Japanese War marked the failure of the Westernization Movement in the Qing Dynasty, which lasted for more than 30 years. The achievements of modernization have gone up in smoke, ruining the pursuit of national rejuvenation by the people of China since modern times.
The cession of land and reparations and the loss of sovereignty facilitated foreign powers to give up their capital, which set off a wave of carve-up, marked a new stage of foreign powers' aggression against China, greatly deepened China's semi-colonization, and China's international status declined sharply.
Far East: Japan's huge reparations and strategic locations such as Taiwan Province Province not only promoted the further development of its own capitalism, but also facilitated Japan's further aggression and expansion in the Far East, making Japan the only emerging capitalist power in Asia.
In addition, in order to fight against the humiliation of Russia and the intervention of the three countries, Japan put forward the slogan of "sleeping and tasting courage" and restarted the ten-year expansion plan; On the other hand, it contributed to the formation of "anglo-japanese alliance" and opened a new round of hegemony in East Asia.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 1894- 1895