China cedes Taiwan to Britain in 1841

I think Taiwan became more Japonified simply because it was easier to - I would think that any resources freed up by lacking Taiwan couldn't be particularly useful in making Korea more Japan-like, not when there's vast demographic and cultural differences between the two countries.
Those differences didn't stop Japan from trying OTL.
 
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I think Taiwan became more Japonified simply because it was easier to - I would think that any resources freed up by lacking Taiwan couldn't be particularly useful in making Korea more Japan-like, not when there's vast demographic and cultural differences between the two countries.
Yep, both countries have quite a unified culture and identity that it would be hard to assimilate one another. Wonder what would happen to place like Jeju though.
 
The answer to this stems from what happened after WWII. You have more Japanese in Korea, but the only real difference is that more Japanese get deported from Korea.

Assuming Japan loses as OTL, there already is a demographic movement of 4 million overseas Japanese with residences from the Pacific Islands to Manchuria being shipped back to the Home Islands. Therefore a few more hundred thousand being in Korea doesn't make a difference.
 

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The answer to this stems from what happened after WWII. You have more Japanese in Korea, but the only real difference is that more Japanese get deported from Korea.

Assuming that WWII even happens more or less exactly as per OTL... Not particularly likely.

What's the likelihood of Japan going Militaristic with a 1841 PoD?
 
Assuming that WWII even happens more or less exactly as per OTL... Not particularly likely.

What's the likelihood of Japan going Militaristic with a 1841 PoD?

PoD as significant as British Taiwan in 1841 is going butterfly away a lot of 19th century events, let alone something a full century into the future.
 
PoD as significant as British Taiwan in 1841 is going butterfly away a lot of 19th century events, let alone something a full century into the future.
Does a British Taiwan, overall, help or hurt China from a governmental perspective? Help because it might make things worse sooner and thus the Chinese government becomes less complacent, or hurt because China would be in the gutter sooner and longer?
 
Does a British Taiwan, overall, help or hurt China from a governmental perspective? Help because it might make things worse sooner and thus the Chinese government becomes less complacent, or hurt because China would be in the gutter sooner and longer?

I think how Britain received Taiwan in 1841 is more important than the actual cessation of the island. If you have a more traumatic opium war, maybe broadened out of South China, then the Chinese state might be more shaky when confronted with further problems in the 19th century.

Really hard to say without having an expert on the Qing to a full timeline on this, I'd wager
 
Does a British Taiwan, overall, help or hurt China from a governmental perspective? Help because it might make things worse sooner and thus the Chinese government becomes less complacent, or hurt because China would be in the gutter sooner and longer?
I do think the Chinese government's gonna get less 'complacent'.Must say though that complacent really wasn't the right word.They were fully aware that there needs to be reform,but opinions differed across how to reform and what shouldn't.If the war's destructive enough and the dynasty's fortunes are far worse than OTL,they might just throw everything they have at changing consequences be damned.Will be a good thing if the war managed to kill a certain man who thinks he's the younger brother of Jesus as well.
 
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