The failure of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 marked the failure of the Westernization Movement in the Qing Dynasty, which lasted for more than 30 years, and the achievements of modernization went up in smoke, breaking the pursuit of national rejuvenation by the people of China in 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.
The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 directly led to the upsurge of China people's spontaneous anti-aggression struggle, such as the China people's national salvation movement, the bourgeois political reform and democratic revolution movement and the Boxer Movement.
Japan's huge reparations and strategic locations such as Taiwan Province Province not only promoted the further development of its 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.
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Before provoking this war, Japan's wartime base camp formulated a "general operational policy" that the navy and the army considered as a whole. Its strategic goal is to wage a decisive battle with the Qing army in Zhili Plain of China, defeat the Qing army and oppress the Qing Dynasty to yield. It is believed that whether this goal can be achieved depends on the results of naval operations.
In China, there was no clear strategic policy and operational plan before the war. Because the ruling group has different opinions on the main battle, the main battle and the main battle, and they are constrained by each other, there is no special operational command organization in advance and no strategic guidance for overall planning. At first, I hoped for the "mediation" of Russia, Britain and other countries, and then I declared war hastily when the land and sea had already started fighting.
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