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With a POD after 1800, have China "pull a Meiji" and rapidly industrialize while Japan remains secluded and relatively backwards.

How would this affect its interactions with the outside world? Is it possible for them to avoid territorial losses to Russia and Britain?

With a strengthened China, would it even be possible for them to collect tribute from tribes further into Siberia and Central Asia, eventually leading to territorial claims against Russia later on?

And finally with a weakened Japan, would they more easily fall prey to European imperialism and be carved up, or potentially even fall within the Chinese sphere of influence?
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