http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_under_Japanese_rule#Early_years_.281895-1915.29
"An 1897 session of the Japanese Diet debated whether to sell Taiwan to France." From the Chinese wikipedia, the price they intended was 100 million yens.
So, suppose the Taiwanese revolted more frequently, and the Japanese considers more a drain of its resources rather than a colony which Japan can benefit from. And France accepted, seeing it as a chance to counter Britain's expansion of power in the East. What effect on history this would lead to?
Discuss.
"An 1897 session of the Japanese Diet debated whether to sell Taiwan to France." From the Chinese wikipedia, the price they intended was 100 million yens.
So, suppose the Taiwanese revolted more frequently, and the Japanese considers more a drain of its resources rather than a colony which Japan can benefit from. And France accepted, seeing it as a chance to counter Britain's expansion of power in the East. What effect on history this would lead to?
Discuss.