As the saying goes, there are still all kinds of people in the hundreds, and it is not surprising in essence that the eight imperialist powers, which were entangled in the chaos of the Gengzi State, are themselves full of contradictions and conspire with each other, and they first tear up their own internal problems on the question of whether to divide China and to what extent.
▲Group photo of the Eight-Power Alliance (one Russia)
Of the eight countries, the land-based countries are the most enthusiastic about the partition of China, and the extent to which they demand the division of China is also the deepest. Three traditional land powers, such as Russia, such as Germany, and france, all have unusual enthusiasm and preference for land: Russia has long tried to directly open up the passage from the Amur River to the ice-free ports of the Lu-Da region, and has been trying to turn Mongolia and the northeast into the so-called "yellow Russia"; Germany has tried to open a naval base in the Far East as a power projection point, and in addition to the Qingdao base, it has also looked at the entire Shandong region to try to use it as a base depth France, on the other hand, tried to build on the annexation of Vietnam and Vietnam, complete the integration of the Vietnamese-Guangxi region, and lay a good foothold for the expansion to Guangdong and Hunan.
▲ Russian army
▲ German army (shoulder-to-shoulder Type 98)
In addition to these three countries, the sea-leaning Britain and Japan played a more shrewd calculation, at that time the British hegemony mainly relied on the Gibraltar-Egypt/Suez-India-Singapore system, and was not concerned about the affairs of the Far East except for worrying about Russian expansion, but setting up a buffer zone between the Indian colonies and the Qing Empire to instigate the independence of Tibet and Xinjiang was very enthusiastic about Britain; as for Japan, on the one hand, it tried to annex Taiwan, and on the other hand, it tried to enter the northeast on the basis of the Korean colonies. To some extent, these two countries even demanded the integrity of China's territory and the continuation of the monarch's power.
▲ British army
▲Japanese army
As for the other two countries, austria-Hungary and Italy, they are themselves the appendix of the imperialist world, in the Western imperialist world people are light-hearted, and the role played in the Gengzi rebellion is basically to coax the straw, as for the two indian devils brought by Britain, there is nothing to say as a puppet army.
▲ Italian Navy
▲ British Indian Army
In addition to these seven countries, the Thinking of the United States is more profound, or the United States, an emerging imperialist power based entirely on Christian commercial civilization and has not gone through the process of colonial competition in the classical Christian era, has expanded its influence compared with the previous old powers, which is already too high to know where to go:
At a time when Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and Japan were still in the ancestral stage of grabbing money and grabbing women, the United States had keenly realized the inexorability of nationalism and national liberation, and after the vast third world countries were armed with Western guns and cannons, the Western world could no longer control such a large area of colonies with a small number of regular troops. So instead of grabbing land now and then quitting in disgrace one day in the future, it is better to sell a person now and then promote your own values, your own way of life, your own material and spiritual products - as Teddy said, "The young people who control a country control their future", and if we can't conquer them, let them become us.
In this sense, the strategic vision of US imperialism, which was already on the verge of reaching the top at that time, was indeed poisonous, and if it were not for the arduous struggle waged by China under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the US plan would not have been truly realized.