After the Boxer rebellion in 1900, the Eight Nation Alliance finally defeats the boxers and leaves China. The Alliance dissolves shortly after. The Qing Dynasty weakens dramatically in the following few years. Unlike Britain or France, Germany stayed in China and set up a naval base in Tsingtao (Qingdao) and spread German influence in-and-around China. In an attempt to save the crumbling Dynasty, Qing soldiers attacked Tsingtao in 1901 but lost to the superior weapons of the Germans. The Kaiser now with an excuse to attack China, sent a strong naval and land expedition to China. The aim of the expedition was to capture Peking (Beijing) and to incorporate China into the German colonial empire. The German expedition captured Peking in 1902. For the next nine years, the newly established German government of China had to suppress wave after wave of Qing rebels in the city and country side. The Germans finally left China in 1911 because tensions were at a boiling point in Europe. One year later, the Qing Dynasty fell. The Germans never returned to China because they had lost WW1.
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