Apparently the British had interests in establishing a protectorate in the Yangtze to "protect" the region upriver of Shanghai under a native Han monarch.
If China had underwent a crisis serious enough that partition actually became possible, and the Protectorate (揚子保護國 ) was proclaimed, what would the long term consequences for the region be?
Any partition of China in the 1890s-1900s period would result in countries which had opposing political alliances having colonies that bordered each other, and a WW1-equivalent could easily see an attempt by one or more of the powers to seize their rivals' colonies (or in the case of Yangtze, "re-annexation" of colonies as provinces of the Protectorate)
With the example of the Indian National Congress and communist (not necessarily Marxist) ideas floating around we could also see a specific national movement in the Protectorate to overthrow the King and his British backers and institute a *socialist republic.
If China had underwent a crisis serious enough that partition actually became possible, and the Protectorate (揚子保護國 ) was proclaimed, what would the long term consequences for the region be?
Any partition of China in the 1890s-1900s period would result in countries which had opposing political alliances having colonies that bordered each other, and a WW1-equivalent could easily see an attempt by one or more of the powers to seize their rivals' colonies (or in the case of Yangtze, "re-annexation" of colonies as provinces of the Protectorate)
With the example of the Indian National Congress and communist (not necessarily Marxist) ideas floating around we could also see a specific national movement in the Protectorate to overthrow the King and his British backers and institute a *socialist republic.
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