AHC: Make China a British Colony

All of china must be under british control by 1899. Certain parts/all of china could be made a dominion at some point in the 19th century.
 
Soundly under British influence for a period of time? perhaps.
A colony? a Dominion? not in a million years, China isn't India, not even a remotely comparable situation for the British or regional history/politics/culture.
 

Redhand

Banned
Why would they want to? Having to administer and govern China is way less profitable then forcing them to buy your goods at an amazingly unfair balance of trade and act as drug dealers to a country full of addicts.

Maybe owning a lot more coastal enclaves than Hong Kong is possible and beneficial but anywhere you can't use the Royal Navy sounds like a waste of resources and effort.
 

Sabot Cat

Banned
Taiping Kingdom overthrows the Qing Dynasty, gets into a war with the British Empire over the Opium trade, refuses to negotiate a treaty, and consequently is sacked. Cue the need to establish a British colony for the country, constantly threatened by irregular warfare from quasi-Christian zealots. [I'm writing a timeline with this kind of scenario. I'm actually struggling with whether or not the British would be able to defeat a semi-modernized power with strength in numbers, morale, and terrain.]
 
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