how does a "Napoleonic" Europe, in the short to medium term, affect the colonial power struggle with regard to Asia and the Indian Ocean? Does it distract Russia from Central Asia, or the British from consolidating control over India? Would Britain suffer French satellite states to keep colonial possessions in the east -- namely, could Bonapartist Spain keep the Phillipines, while the Dutch keep Java? How does this help or hurt the various sultanates and kingdoms (and one shogunate) scattered across the region? And, of course, what about the Qing?