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Is there any chance that between 1895 (the end of the First Sino-Japanese War that gave Taiwan to Japan) and spring of 1898 (the start of the Spanish-American War that gave the Philippines to the USA) a war between Spain and Japan might have started that ended with the local defeat of Spain and the acquisition of the Philippines by Japan?