Feature History - First Sino-Japanese War 

Ya same here I was so confused

Well, information is power, so information control is power as well, right? It WAS a good intro, though, had me as well for a moment!

I was really confused for a second as to why a video from an Australian creator would be blocked in Australia...

Same here, wondered why living in Alberta would get that

Same and I'm also canadian

100% straight up facts

hilarious and original! :D

your comment offends me! delete this comment now! >:(

Also, Twitter.

Very true

Indeed

Yeah it has been so long.

Lol for real

It’s a good day when your pic is one of the best rappers alive👍

@@123blakes8 real shit 👍🏽

Japan won though

@@genghiskhan5701 well the strategy failed eventually , against the Chinese non-the less

lmao

Pls don’t nuke me I wanna live

You're not thinking about nuking countries right?

"Nuked Australia is best Australia!" -Kim Jong-un probably

... But at least it came! Nothing like being politically blue-balled when being taken at both ends.

@@sinoroman it's a joke

@@vic_t0r260 My joke was gonna be that or "Who knew combining nationalism, Bushido, and repeating rifles would be a bad idea?"

@@sinoroman r/whoosh

likes on your replies are going up, so gonna repost in comment section. won't stop your likes from going up, but will slow it down :)

posting a serious reply on a future issue on a joke comment was my fault from the beginning kek

And Manchuria

Well Poland has 5 neighbors, and Korea has only two neighbors.

@David Kim Can't set aside anything though.

@conan 263 European ate horses…

conan 263 pot calls kettle black

Every Asian, probably

Nobody at all. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimizuka

Qing: Let's execute and mutilate the corpses of prisoners of war. This will totally make them scared. Japan: Finds bodies, which infuriates them and decides to massacre civilians. Qing: Suprised Pikachu Face. Don't be surprised that your enemy commits war crimes if you decide to ignore the laws of war first.

@@kantaikessen3289 what’s your excuse for the Rape of Nanking?

@@kantaikessen3289 the japanese were more notorious for war crimes on a massive scale in at the turn of the 20th century up till world war ii. it's inexcusable.

What did I read...

@@hiimryan2388 something pure golden

Not really pure golden despite me posting Qing dynasty ships videos

Technically speaking, if that Qing really came from the past, it actually might win the battle. Afterall, the technological disadvantage isn't the reason why Qing failed. A younger, more energetic and vivide Qing dynasty with less corruption might make it possible to catch up in technology, like Japan did over a few decades. In fact the JP meiji restoration and CN self-strenghning movement both started in 1860s. So, yah, not trying to ruin your meme, but a younger Qing government from the past probably gonna work, if they actually time-travelled to 1860s.

Or 1812

sounds familiar, the swedes in 1709.

also, attacking a larger country with larger population and using speed to defeat the country

To be fair there wasn’t really much time since all the shit that happened went by ridiculously fast

Rehash of which country's history?

The fate of Asia did lie between China and Japan...

Another reason of confusion must be because the Beiyang Army succeeded the Huai Army which itself succeeded the Xiang Army and because they were pretty much being originated from eachother many times they mix it up

@@osu3167 The reason is the same as why the Ottoman Empire was so weak

Better than most, my guy!

In this age modernization ment westernization, I am afraid.

i understand it!

Would you mind do a video on how the north east Asia were powerful then south East Asia . I have alot of questions .

Also, it’s pronounced konnichiwa

Cool! Thanks for sharing.

That’s a cool story man

I'm sorry my man. I saw "McGiffin" and my mind read as "Griffin," which went to Peter Griffin and I made my own _Family Guy_ smash cut of Peter as your ancestor at the Battle of the Yalu River.

dragged into a doomed war. poor man.

@@danielseelye6005 hahahahahhaha this had me dying.

I definitely not see this coming.

no admiral yi this time around unfortunately

@@daeseongkim93 I was referring to when the Americans did the same thing to Japan, but that also works.

@@gavinsmith9871 USA:I taught them well. Japan: YOUR NEXT AMERICA!!!

@@gavinsmith9871 lol ahh that makes sense too, but the Japanese did sail into a secluded Korean port multiple times during the Imjin Wars a few hundred years before. Then suddenly Admiral Yi shows up with a few turtle boats. Japan (Pikachu face) Admiral Yi (Gangnam Style dances)

@@daeseongkim93 But now the Japanese had turtle ships (Ships made out of iron)

which half?

Agree, the First Sino-Japanese War is barely recognized that sadly many people even call the second war the "Sino-Japanese War". I have always found the First Sino-Japanese War more fascinating to learn as this war alone has influenced and left a mark not only to Japan nor China but also the world. Everyone, except the Japanese, thought that the Chinese would win, similar to how the Imjin War would play out.

I am no historian, but the reason why WW1 isn't covered as much as WW2 is imho not that WW2 was bigger and deadlier instead its just that trench warfare is boring to talk about. WW2 and all the more modern wars were a lot more mobile than WW1 and wars before that were mostly decided by one or a few battles, so WW1 is this 4 year long constant battle that after the inital offensive came to a halt became super static. The first sino-japanese war on the other hand is mostly overlooked, because at the time western powers saw both Japan and China as uncivilized. It also gets overshadowed by the russo-japanese war 10 years later, which was a wake up call for western powers that japan was able to beat a western power. Sure they downplayed the Japanese victory a lot, because Japanese battleships were built by the british and stuff like that, but in the end they had to admit that Japan was now a player in the game of worldpowers.

@@GodzThirdLeg yeah that's a good point. WW 1 was definitely less exiting then the 2nd one. Your point about the Russo-Japanese war is also good as the west really didn't give a crap about China which had been weak for years, but Russia well that was a major Western power.

The 1st Sino-Japanese War got overshadowed by the Russo-Japanese War. The former is treated as a dry run to Japan's ascendancy as a Great Power and a ringing validation that their 30 years of modernization is worth the civil wars and peasant revolts they suffered through...

Influ scope fair enough. Generally speaking, the Korea (ROK)-China(PRC) relationship is overall negative/despised yet somewhat has shared common grounds from time to time.

@Influ scope well you can find anti-korea/china protests in japan very easily. Obviously Three counties hates each other, not only china and korea.

@Influ scope Oh I understood..😅 thanks for the explanation!!

@@zhengchen9405 China is a huge country with inferior tech, though.

​@@zhengchen9405 Lol, Japan and South Korea are on the side of the US. There may be demands and negotiations, but why should the US increase tensions with them, especially now? Then, If China today has a great tech level, why should Chinese companies/organizations/governments heavily rely on foreign tech supports and supplies? Why Chinese own companies lack of international competitiveness except price, especially on the major industries? Why the most of Chinese workers still are low-payed, and why would they accept their wages?

Same

same lol

same lol lol

With how 1870 worked out for them, Germany is everyone's favorite drill seargent...

@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 happy Chilean noises

Relying on Speed is probably a maneuver they learned from the French, after all, Napoleon did it too, earlier than The Germans

Good to see you here

and Pak Honyong

Too much free speech yeah?

Secure secure tunnel! - I laughed so hard

Easy Asia’s Poland

@@constantinexi6489 more like the benelux region

You're all correct.

We're the metal and China and Japan are the hammer and anvil

@@constantinexi6489 except more popular

Yeah there is whole long story behind that but yeah to put it simple, Daewongun made a realistic deal and political maneuver that would weaken the Andong Kim family that controlled royal palace behind weak kings, while securing his foothold within the palace and political scene. One of that move was to make his 12yr old son a step son of one of power queen within palace to secure legitimacy and claim to the throne, while he himself could still wield political power and authority as ‘daewongun’ a title that was originally given to deceased father of kings who weren’t monarch themselves.

I heard of this one austrian paintet that would love to do that

Yes it is an amazing history. Thanks to the greatest President of Korea, Park Jung Hee, who made the limestone of what South Korea is now & today.

​@@NangNangEEYeah by using Japan war reparations money. Park use those 3 billion yen to build south korea industries instead of paying the Korean victim of ww2.

*dictator

*emperor

@@hiimryan2388 you have no idea what the Meiji constitution is

@@AlternateTimelord Then again, that constitution was copied wholesale from the German Constitution (made by Bismarck) which concentrated powers in the Prime Minister and not the Emperor and it "helps" that the Emperors are standoffish...

@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 so that means that the emperor has shared power which in my definition, doesn’t make him a dictator. I don’t think the emperor had as much power as some people think since 1885, the power has shifted from a oligarchy, a parliament, a military dictatorship, and a parliament again.

Considering the amount of events and implications spawned from it, especially today to understand the perspective of China, this is not taught enough, or isn’t taught, as you don’t want to understand the enemies would you/s

By choosing to adopt an isolationist stance Korea would become a battlefield regardless, it's surrounded by Russia, China and Japan. When they fight over their interests Korea would be caught in the middle of all that, it wouldn't be hard for one of them to produce an excuse for intervention in Korean affairs. The only way the Korean Peninsula could deter them is modernise and attain a respectable military akin to armed neutrality of Switzerland.

If Korea hadn’t industrialized and modernized then it was going to turn into a battlefield anyway. Why would Koreans oppose modernization?

@@peterii3512 Like all Asians during that time. Most were so stuck to the past and still believed in their traditional ways to be superior when Europe had modernized and conquered the rest of the world. Despite them being the inventors to the gunpowder, they failed to make proper modernization and changes to their systems which led all of them to be pawns to the western powers for decades.

Toledo Christian Matthew But that isn’t a useful answer, WHY did they not modernize.

@@peterii3512 As it is said in this video, a lot of political instability in the government and the clash between modernists and traditionalists.

Mohammod comics video probably yes

The Korean one was probably the funniest.

Hmm

Hey, I've seen that before... Hmm...

proves that adapting [weapons] isn't very hard only importing weaponry and tactics

@@sinoroman not really that, they learned and incorporated everything with ease, industry, western style education and public systems, to advanced Naval Fleets and elite expeditionary armies with their own indigenous weapons and assets.

it was able to modernize thanks to foreign assistance too. he mentions german trained soldiers and arms, but also the americans and dutch were trading with the japanese during that time, bringing with them technologies from the west. it wasnt simply an indigenous japanese effort.

Rangaku (Western Learning) had a hand in their modernization since it created an available intelligentsia that can learn things fast rather than spending years learning...

@Skazka "...the Second-Sino Japanese [Second Sino-Japanese] War next!"

his korean pronunciations were alright, not the best, but understandable too

Korea has a sorcerer problem eh

@@peterii3512 And they were called 무당.

Previously she was venerated and now demonized in Korea? How fast the time is.

arent korean blaming japanse for death of Empress Myongsung?

@@kpopkpop5235 Still. But now they blaming Empress Myongsung for her corruption.

You mean the "Independent but not really independent and they forced us to declare war against the US and have one of our heroes cofounded an infamous collaborationist organization as a way to circumvent their refusal to declare war on the US" era...

@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 it is an interesting topic. And yes. I think it was worth it.