Can a dysfuntional Anglo French alliance hold together outside Europe

Doing some research for a project Im working on and I would like some opinions.

If Anglo French European policy split apart in the mid 1930s. Lets say the Brits play hard ball with Mussolinis African ambitions in Ethiopia but France refuses to cooperate with the Empire fearing that Anglo Italian conflict would allow Germany to move unchecked.

This results in the Entente separating in Europe with differing and divergent European policy.

Lets say that this results in Japan saber rattling in the Pacific seeing the European powers as separated and weaked.

Someone in the foreign office suggests to the French that the Royal Navy and the Marine National deploying significant squadrons to Singapore and Saigon respectively would result in Japan backing down.

Would the France and Britain be willing and able to coordinate in the far east when they cannot in Europe. Would one power need to send a disproportionate force in order to convince the other that they are serious? For example the empire sends 7 capital ships if the French send 2?

I am hoping that a deal whereby the Brits agree to send 6 capital ships and the French send 3 capital ships with a similar deployment of heavy cruisers. My main problem is would an Entente that is failing to cooperate in Europe be willing to cooperate in the far east.
 
I don't think they would cooperate in far east if they cant in Europe....

But I cant see them totally falling out in Europe at the end of the day France cant fight Germany without GB (and GB has to stop France becoming a German client state or they will totally dominate Europe and therefore GB...)
 
I don't think they would cooperate in far east if they cant in Europe....

But I cant see them totally falling out in Europe at the end of the day France cant fight Germany without GB (and GB has to stop France becoming a German client state or they will totally dominate Europe and therefore GB...)

Thansk for the feedback. I was thinking that a colonial alliance was possible even without convergent European aims.

Other features of timeline include

An Anglo German Naval agreement that sees Germany limited below 35% of the Royal Navy as historically limited (with a secret clause whereby Britain withdraw from enforcing certain Versailles stipulations.

A French alliance with both Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia and Poland backed by a Poland/Czechoslovakia/Yugoslavia treaty unlike historically where France had separate treaties with Czechoslovakia and Poland and if France went to war to protect the Czechs Poland would not be drawn in and vice versa.

An Italy dominated Austria likely to resist any attempts at Anschluss.

Anyway France don't necessarily need Britain to counter balance Germany in Europe and Brits know that they dont need to get involved.

The key difference is that Frances European alliances means that France protest and threaten war (serious threats) for various breaches in Versailles where historically they went along and didnt do more than mild protests. These threats and limited military actions are successful at containing Germany.

This causes a European separation between France and Britain. Japan start acting provocative in Asia seeing a disunified France and Britain as an easy target.

Japan however act provocative to both France and Britain, (figuring that France are to busy in Europe checking Germany and Britain are engaged in saber rattling with Italy over Ethiopia and have proven themselves without the stomach for war by not acting against Germany).

Japan are planning on fighting one of the European colonial powers while the other makes concessions to back away.

Then France and Britain look at a defensive alliance against Japan and a join deployment to the far east.
 
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