Asia kickes the whites out of the American West

At the time, Britain was more likely to have sided with the Russians. In fact, threats from a combination of Russia, France and Britain were what forced Japan to give up the very same territory when they possessed it several years earlier. That's after Japan seized it from the Chinese and before the Russians walked in and took it for themselves.
You do realise that during Russo-Japanese War Japan and UK were allies? And Britain did support Japan at that war (i.e. buying 2 battleships that were built for Chile, on the off chance that Chile could have sold them to Russia; or, more importantly, not allowing Rozestwienski to use the Suez Canal on the voyage east).

And about an earlier intervention - UK didn't take part in it. It was Russia, Germany and France.
 
We'd have sided with them after they sank a bunch of innocent fishing-boats and shot the hell out of many others? Something that very nearly made Britain declare war? Hmm...I don't think so.
 
Britain was very much trying to align with Japan at this point. They had a history of cooperating in Asia, had deliberately stayed aloof from the agreements in the aftermath of the Sino-Japanese War which forced Japan to give up territory, and was able to trust Japan to help out in the Boxer Rebellion. The British were also constantly fearing Russian expansion in Central Asia and the Far East, for fear of invasion of India. What Britain didn't want to do was get involved in a grand scale European war due to activities in Asia, hence the provisions of the Anglo-Japanese alliance making it a naval agreement to counter France and Russia in the Far East. When the 1905 war came round, both Britain and France were eager to distance themselves from their allies in their Entente negotiations.

Despite this, Britain also wanted to improve relations with the USA. It wanted to improve them in the early 20th century so as it could stop worrying about its Carribean posessions, and it wanted to improve them in the 1920s to stop a naval race, get war debts reduced and lead the world in disarmament. It would take a fabulously dim view of Japan invading the Western seaboard of the USA. There were admittedly some voices in the British government advocating renewing the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, but these would be overwhelmed if their increasingly unreliable and aggressive ally (the 21 Demands on China, for example) decided to leap into another war to "liberate" the USA. The British would at least maintain benevolent neutrality (benevolent to the USA that is) and build up their forces in Asia, watching Japan fail in their war. A Royal Naval task force would probably be unneccessary and expensive, especially without the base at Singapore, but would earn them some nice brownie points from the USA for war debt reduction purposes.

This post was completely pointless, but never mind.
 
Isn't advocating genocide and ethnic cleansing against the rules of this website or am I reading too much into this?
 
The British would at least maintain benevolent neutrality (benevolent to the USA that is) and build up their forces in Asia, watching Japan fail in their war. A Royal Naval task force would probably be unneccessary and expensive, especially without the base at Singapore, but would earn them some nice brownie points from the USA for war debt reduction purposes.

A Japanese invasion of the US West Coast would also be a potential threat to Western Canada, especially if they start a genocidal campaign against the 'European' population. What would be there to stop them trying the same in Oregon and into BC?
The Canadians would certainly look to assist the US and I'm pretty sure that the British would too.
 
Indeed. But "the very least" option of benevolent neutrality and readying troops takes into account the generally anti-war and pro disarmament public and government sentiment going round (WWI was very recent, after all), as well as the likelihood that the Japanese would have extreme difficulty in even landing troops on the West Coast. This makes actual intervention less likely.

But it's still entirely possible, of course. The Dominions were increasingly suspicious of the Yellow Peril, and the British Government weren't completely averse to (for example) increasing naval spending to match Japan and the USA. And the League of Nations would be compelled to prevent or intervene in another great power war. With Britain being the only power able to do anything in the area, it would be compelled to do something about Japan, whether economic sanctions or dispatching troops.
 

Wolfpaw

Banned
He was already kicked for racism.
He ought to be banned; he'd started another thread that was more blatant in his complaints about Asians not being allowed to steal land like the Europeans, and how he was physically sickened by the fact that Asians weren't allowed to take advantage of "their Near East", which is the term he used for California.
 
He ought to be banned; he'd started another thread that was more blatant in his complaints about Asians not being allowed to steal land like the Europeans, and how he was physically sickened by the fact that Asians weren't allowed to take advantage of "their Near East", which is the term he used for California.

I think the other thread he started was blatant about his hate/disdain of white people than his lament that Asians weren't allowed to steal land like Europeans. I think this thread is much more blatant in that regard.

I don't necessarily disagree that his kick is lenient, but this isn't the forum for such things. It's kind of hard not to bash him here, but the HoI is good for that too. :)
 
I've been stewing this in my head for a while now... What if, just what if somehow the nations of East and Southeast Asia form a coalition to attack the Western United States after the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Immigration Act of 1914 and somehow manage to free it from the grip of the white people there, and then expel them out to the east. If that happened, what could be life like today?
As has been repeatedly stated in this thread, it is impossible with a post-1900 POD.
I don't think this makes it impossible with a really early POD. Just imagine admiral Zheng He or another Chinese explorer makes an eastward voyage of discovery and discovers Hawaii and the American West Coast. He might have arrived there decades before Columbus in the Caribbean.

Of course then the existence of a "Chinese Exclusion Act" and an "Immigration Act of 1914" would be extremely unlikely, and even a United States of America as we know it would not be likely.

But a scenario where China is a bigger power than the USA, or whatever is the strongest country with a white majority, and has large territories in what is now the USA in 1914 would be possible, and this superpower China might then, for whatever reasons, expell all European-descended people from its territory.
 
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You know, you can't get from Japan to Western United States without going through Kamachatka, Alaska, and Alberta (or a longer path). It's of comparable difficulty to attacking from Argentina.
 
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