What did the Sino-Japanese War give us?

The result of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 brought unprecedented national crisis to the Chinese nation and greatly deepened the degree of semi-colonization of China society. On the other hand, it makes Japan's national strength stronger and lays an important foundation for it to become a big country.

The failure of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 marked the failure of the Westernization Movement in the Qing Dynasty, which lasted for more than 30 years, and the achievements of modernization were wiped out, breaking the pursuit of national rejuvenation by the people of China since modern times. The cession of land and reparations and the loss of sovereignty facilitated the great powers to give up their capital and set off a wave of carve-up, which marked that the invasion of China by the great powers entered a new stage, greatly deepened the semi-colonization of China, and China's international status declined sharply.

The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 directly led to the rise of China people's spontaneous anti-aggression struggle, such as the China people's national salvation movement, the bourgeois reform movement, the democratic revolution movement and the Boxer Movement.

Japan's huge reparations and strategic locations such as Taiwan Province Province not only promoted the further development of its capitalism, but also facilitated Japan's further aggression and expansion in the Far East, making Japan the only emerging capitalist power in Asia.

In addition, in order to counter the humiliation of Russia and the interference of the three countries, Japan put forward the slogan of "sleeping on the salary and tasting the courage" and restarted the ten-year expansion plan; On the other hand, it contributed to the formation of "anglo-japanese alliance" and opened a new round of hegemony in East Asia.

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Before provoking this war, Japan's wartime base camp formulated a "general operational policy" which was considered by the navy and the army as a whole. Its strategic goal is to fight a decisive battle with the Qing army in Zhili Plain of China, defeat the Qing army and oppress the Qing Dynasty to yield. It is believed that whether this goal can be achieved depends on the results of naval operations.

China did not have a clear strategic policy and operational plan before the war. Because the ruling clique has different opinions on major campaigns, major campaigns and major campaigns, and they are mutually restricted, there is no special operational command organization in advance, and there is no strategic guidance for overall planning. At first, I hoped for the "mediation" of Russia, Britain and other countries. Later, I hastily declared war when land and sea had begun.

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