Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's foreign policy

In an alternate timeline where the British and French do not support the Qings during the Taiping Rebellion and the Taipings successfully overtake China and impose their fundamentalist heterodox theocracy, what would've been their foreign policy towards their neighbours, who were either Confucian (Korea), Orthodox (Russia), Shinto (Japan), etc?
 
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BigBlueBox

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Does the Taiping Kingdom conquer the entirety of Qing China or just the Chinese core territories (Ming territory)? The geopolitical situation would be very different if there was a surviving Qing dynasty in Manchuria. If the Taiping did conquer Manchuria though, there would likely be a Manchu genocide. Do the Taiping set up a successful succession or does it collapse back into another civil war when Hong Xiuquan does? Does the Taiping continue its radicalism and theology, or does it reform (possibly converting to one of the dominant forms of Christianity and/or bringing back traditional Chinese governing style)?
 

Kaze

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In external Chinese diplomacy, Hong was no diplomat nor could he see that the Western Imperialist governments would be very sympathetic to a Chinese rebellion – they expected the new government to recognize Western rights in the Colonies already held. With his dealings with western nations, Hong often treated the ambassadors as inferior dependencies in the same manner as the Manchu government tried to deal with the British before the Opium Wars. If say Hong was willing to part with the whole of Guangdong and Fujian provinces, which technically were not under his direct control, the British and Americans and others would be all too helpful to aid in his victory – not only recognizing the Heavenly Kingdom as the new Chinese government, send money and supplies, but would see the quick defection of Charles George Gordon, Frederick Townsend Ward, and Henry Andres Burgevine to support the rebellion militarily. Unfortunately, due to the Heavenly King treatment of Britain and the British, Sir George Bongham, the British plenipotentiary in China, left in disgust threatening that if British lives or property were violated that his government would retaliate with acts worse than they did back in the Opium Wars.

But let us say the rebellion was successful...

I suspect that Hong's nation would be much like ISIS / ISIL / Al-Qaeda state. It will likely treat its neighbor like a ISIS / ISIL / Al-Qaeda state did in IRL. Japan would look towards the Manchu as they did post-World War One, as the rightful government and would install a Puyi style puppet by force. Korea might do the same, but also expect a purge of Christians.
 
Was Korea really that harsh towards Christians in OTL?
Christianity was banned and experienced a fair number of purges in Joseon Korea, eventually culminating in the French punitive expedition against the Joseon Kingdom in 1866 (as retaliation for the execution of 9 French missionaries). It was seen as a destabilising, foreign influence (the Taiping Rebellion did nothing to endear the Confucian Joseon dynasty of the merits of Christianity) that could be used to divert attention away from the famine and factionalism plaguing the late Joseon, which led to some tens of thousands of Christians being executed over the decades and Christianity only really taking off after Korea lost its independence.
 
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