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So we know the Qing empire was the "Sick man of Asia" and Japan took the title of the Asian Power after the First Sino-Japanese war. Japan would later win the Russo-Japanese war in 1905, defeating a major western power.

Now One thing when learning about the Russo-Japanese war, was why didn't the Qing get involved? And then I thought An Alliance between the Romanov and Qing families would actually make sense and could work. Both are Monarchist Autocracies, both want to expand, and most importantly, both want to undermine the expansion of Japan. Russia saw expansion in the far east promising. Wanting Manchuria, and Influence in Korea, Japan saught the exact same. So what if After China's loss in the First SIno-Japanese war, the Chinese approached Russia with an alliance, one was Russia is promised Expansion in the far east, in exchange for Japanese publication, the Qings title of Asian power restored to prestige, and the survival of the Dynasty, Empire, and Qing expansion.

So now in the Russo-Japanese war, the Russians and Qing with joint forces declare war on Japan. What happens during the war? who wins? What happens in Japan, and Japanese politics, What happens with Russian expansion in the Pacific, What happens inside the Qing empire, would the Qing still fall when they did? How does this affect World war I, and how does it affect the interwar years, and World war II?
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