AHQ: What modernized power would ally with a Westernized China?

What country will China be able to ally?

  • Russia

    Votes: 1 3.6%
  • United States

    Votes: 12 42.9%
  • Great Britain

    Votes: 2 7.1%
  • France

    Votes: 3 10.7%
  • Germany

    Votes: 9 32.1%
  • Japan

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Italy

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 1 3.6%

  • Total voters
    28
I know, it wouldn't be easy for China to undergo industrialisation. It's for the purpose of discussion. Say China gets shocked enough after the First Opium War, and industrialises out of fear. The Amur annexation gets butterflied and China only cedes a couple of ports to the European powers.


With a modernized China, what Great Power would it be most likely be able to ally? Like OTL Japan with Great Britain. I


The date can be at latest 1910 AD.
 
It has to be United States since other powers have colonial interests in the Far East.
Doesn’t America want to dominate the Pacific though? Then again, if America is hostile to Britain there are benefits to ally China to counterweight the Anglo-Japanese alliance.

Could Germany be a candidate? IIRC Bismarck originally did not want colonies, so maybe if it that continues we could we see a Sino-German Alliance.
 

Cryostorm

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Doesn’t America want to dominate the Pacific though? Then again, if America is hostile to Britain there are benefits to ally China to counterweight the Anglo-Japanese alliance.

Could Germany be a candidate? IIRC Bismarck originally did not want colonies, so maybe if it that continues we could we see a Sino-German Alliance.

Once it has Hawaii it really just wanted coaling stations and close ports, hence Guam and Philippines which it let go. As long as China is open to trade the US would likely back them.

Even better, think of WWI with Germany, Ottomans, China, and US on the same side
 
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