Around the 19th Century, who else could have gotten Taiwan if not the Japanese?
Around the 19th Century, who else could have gotten Taiwan if not the Japanese?
Was Chinese control sufficiently weak that Italy -- lacking many opportunities for colonialism elsewhere, as it did -- might have managed a takeover? Perhaps as a part of some deal with France?
Well Commodore Perry lobbied President Pierce to have the US take the relatively unoccupied (at the time) Formosa as an American stronghold to counter European stranglehold on trade routes.
Was Chinese control sufficiently weak that Italy -- lacking many opportunities for colonialism elsewhere, as it did -- might have managed a takeover? Perhaps as a part of some deal with France?
Around the 19th Century, who else could have gotten Taiwan if not the Japanese?
Fort Zeelandia was a Dutch colony until the Ming arrived. So Dutch possibly French or Spanish
or indeed why not native Taiwanese control?