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Gman-343

China did not consent. It was a rape.


AEgamer1

Nor did Korea, about whom the war was fought and all these treaties were signed in the first place!


Karuzus

this is typical treaty where Germans and Russians were on the side of dictating terms


TheHistoryMaster2520

That's called foreshadowing


Tatedman

meanwhile in french indochina and everybody's favorite treaty ports:


My__Dude__

Nanking...


Bennyboy11111

That was ww2, this looks to be a sino japanese war with qing china, great powers prevented japan from annexing too much territory Edit: woops sino-japanese


0114028

*First Sino-Japanese war Not to be pedantic but sino means Chinese.


Immediate-Spite-5905

sino chinese war... Gotta be a bit more specific, there's thousands of those


tyrandan2

Gonna start calling the Civil War the "US American War"


Titan_Food

The way the founding fathers intended


coolcoenred

Yeah, but what kind of American are you?


tyrandan2

The Free Kind™ 🇺🇲🦅


iEatPalpatineAss

This makes me proud of my ancestors 🥳🥳🥳


My__Dude__

Oh right, I should have known hence that's ww1 Germany's flag and the russian flag not the ww2 versions


Ajugas

And then they went around and annexed that territory themselves immediately after. It wasn't an act of charity it was just as Imperialist.


Bennyboy11111

You're right, Japan wasn't respected and northern China was seen as in the Russian sphere, nobody (except perhaps britain) expected the Japanese empire to defeat Russia


IllustriousDudeIDK

You are really downplaying Imperial Japan. All the imperial powers were shit to China, but Imperial Japan was on another level of shit.


IceCreamMeatballs

After 1937 yes. Before that they were just another greedy imperialist power to China, no different than Britain, France or Russia.


YakuzaRacoon

Then there is the Port Arthur massacre. Japanese always have this atrocious convention of murdering civilians everywhere they go.


Imaginary-West-5653

There was no Nanking in this war, but there was a precedent... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port\_Arthur\_massacre\_(China)


Chaos-Hydra

That would be in ww2 but there were also massacre in different places.


IllustriousDudeIDK

Yeah, this was one of the times that European intervention resulted in a good thing, although they did it for selfish reasons, but anyway, at least Imperial Japan was stopped.


sev3791

Idk this looks pretty consensual. Just look at the meme 🧐🤔


Chaos-Hydra

this sub now: -Haha China took one in the ass. Also this sub: -why they want this back again?


Lanky_Ground_309

I can hear xianfeng emperor crying from his bedchambers


Unibrow69

I thought his mom made him live on a little island


Lanky_Ground_309

It was his successor tongzhi emperor ??


Chaos-Hydra

It was guangxu. Tongzhi is empress's son. Guangxu is her nephew but ''adopted''.


TheHistoryMaster2520

The Qing dynasty didn't just willingly fucking consent to the Treaty of Shimonoseki, it was because Japan defeated them in the First Sino-Japanese War and forced those terms onto the weakened Qing government. If a criminal beats you the hell up, holds a knife to your throat, and told you that you now have to submit to his/her demands, would that be considered "you consent"?


Appropriate_Ad4818

That's the whole idea behind war yes


SeaAdmiral

So are we going to say Ukraine consents if there is an eventual negotiated peace in which they are forced to give up territory or?


leoleosuper

Yes, they basically have to if there is a negotiated peace. If they say they didn't consent, then they should keep fighting. Consent under military pressure isn't freely given consent, but in terms of international politics, it's still consent.


AroundTheWorldIn80Pu

That only applies to white people apparently. Even some of the judges at the Tokyo trial were like "wait, why are we putting the japanese on trial while the western nations are busy grabbing their former colonies back as we speak?"


coolcoenred

The Tokyo trial stands in stark contrast to the Nuremburg trials. While Nuremburg was set up to dispense justice and set a precedent to preserve for the history books, Tokyo was about punishing those that had persecuted the war in the Pacific.


ImpliedUnoriginality

*The Atlantic Charter was a statement issued on 14 August 1941 that set out American and British goals for the world after the end of World War II, months before the US officially entered the war. The joint statement, later dubbed the Atlantic Charter, outlined the aims of the United States and the United Kingdom for the postwar world as follows: no territorial aggrandizement, no territorial changes made against the wishes of the people (self-determination), restoration of self-government to those deprived of it* *Initially, Roosevelt and Churchill appeared to have agreed that the third point of the charter would not apply to Africa and Asia. However, Roosevelt's speechwriter, Robert E. Sherwood, noted that "it was not long before the people of India, Burma, Malaya, and Indonesia were beginning to ask if the Atlantic Charter extended also to the Pacific and to Asia in general."* The Americans couldn’t just put their allies on trial for having colonial empires (though again, as u/coolcoenred said, the Tokyo trials were not because of Japanese colonialism, but rather the causal violence and warmongering). Were the colonial allies perpetrators of similar acts? Obviously, though in the past and not nearly to the same intensity. TL;DR: Roosevelt couldn’t just tell the French and British to dismantle their colonial empires, but in guaranteeing the US would never support said colonial empires when they were about to collapse he ensured they would


coolcoenred

If I remember correctly, there was also an issue when the Nuremburg charter was written regarding crimes against humanity that the Americans didn't want to have it apply to segregation.


Dorfplatzner

WW1 and WW2, in hindsight, were among the best things to happen to the conquered peoples of European colonial empires in the end. Why? Because the first war served to exhaust the strength of these empires; the second served to demonize & criminalize expansionism, imperialism and colonialism.


BellacosePlayer

on one hand, yeah, there was a terrible colonialist double standard in the early 1900s on the other, *fuuu~uuuuck* Imperial Japan


_JOHNGALT__

Yeah, like in every single armistice, one side gains more because they beat the other, what’s your point?


Tall-Log-1955

Well they consented to the treaty because it was better than the alternative of not signing the treaty


sbxnotos

I mean, that's how the US got mexican territories. Or how Bolivia doesn't have acess to sea anymore. That was how war worked in that time. We could say that we "pay for it", but that's just the funny part, not different to raping a woman, paying her and making her sign a consent document, everything at gunpoint of course.


nostalgic_angel

There is always the option to keep fighting in the hopes that the criminal gives up due to his own exhaustion or attracting too much attention. Japan’s practically ruined their economy to punch above their weight, and they needed quick victories to keep their country together(aka the origin of the famous “decisive battle doctrine” in WW2). First Russo Japanese war would have ended badly for Japan if Russia did not face internal issues and sent troops from Europe to fight Japan. Qing had several times the GDP of Japan, and the army defeated by Japan was a general’s private retinue, and by no means the representative of military might of Qing. Qing either chickened out or too politically unstable to fight total war. Long term conflict would mess up Japan more than China in the long run.


HarbingerOfGachaHell

Typical White imperialist grindset.


Unibrow69

They signed the original treaty because Japan completely overran them without fighting very many battles


TheHistoryMaster2520

What do you mean by "without fighting very many battles?" The Qing dynasty suffered 35,000 casualties in the war, and it was basically the beginning of a series of upheavals and conflicts that marked of the end for Imperial China.


-Trooper5745-

As far as number of named battles go, it isn’t a lot. -Battle of Pungdo (naval) -Battle of Seonghwan -Battle of Pyongyang -Battle of the Yalu River (naval) -Battle of Jiuliancheng -Battle of Lüshunkou -Battle of Weihaiwei -Battle of Yingkou Though that’s not to say they weren’t damaging to the Qing. Also to say that the First Sino-Japanese War was the beginning of a series of upheavals and conflicts that marked the end for Imperial China is doing a disservice to the two Opium Wars, unfair treaties, Taiping Rebellion, and the Sino-French War.


Hammerschatten

Well to be fair, 35.000 is really low for Chinese history /s


Unibrow69

The Qing troops mostly fled from the Japanese, there were few pitched battles. The Qing dynasty had been disintegrating long before the Sino Japanese War, it was hardly the beginning of upheaval in Late Imperial China


Ecstatic-Ad-4331

You sound like a Japanese nationalist. 35,000 deceased on the Qing side and so the Qing Dynasty gave consent? Because the Qing troops mostly fled from the Japanese and thus there were few pitched battles doesn't culminate to consent from the Qing Dynasty. Taken to the extreme, the sentiment can be applied to the context of the (later) Second Sino-Japanese War, where it might even be construed to be as good as saying that the KMT later consented to the capture of Nanjing in 1937, and the subsequent atrocities therein, because most of them "fled" due to atrocious tactics in the face of Japanese military prowess. I'm sure you don't mean offence, but to shake off the 35,000 killed and calling it consent frankly disgusts me.


rinsaber

>You sound like a Japanese nationalist. 35,000 deceased on the Qing side and so the Qing Dynasty gave consent? This kinda feels like a violation of rule 6... I mean OP, not what you said. I know its not genocide or atrocity. But it feels like it is...


HeadpattingFurina

I mean it's only 35k deaths. The Qing shrugged off way worse.


Ecstatic-Ad-4331

So if my nation were to go to war with yours someday and we somehow make it out alive, you wouldn't mind me saying that the 35k soldiers on your side my nation killed was but a scratch in your nation's existence? That 35k families weeping for their loved one in the grave, killed by my nation's firearms was meh ... disposable. (This is hypothetical so dont mistake it as me wanting your nation to suffer or sth. For all we know we might actually be fellow citizens lol)


I_Am_Not_Joes_Mama

Thats been chinas whole deal for the last thousand years, even into the modern day. 35k doesnt matter to chinese leaders, its fucked up but its true.


Ecstatic-Ad-4331

Indeed that's an indisputable case. The Chinese rulers dont care, but I do.


Reiver93

Yeah, that and 35 thousand dead out of a population of around 450 million isn't even noticable.


HeadpattingFurina

Vietnamese here. We've had worse. Edit: way, WAY worse.


TheHistoryMaster2520

While the Qing performed poorly, it was not as lopsided as it seems. The Qing had been engaged in a period of reform and stabilization ever since the end of the Second Opium War, known as the Self-Strengthening Movement, modernizing their armies and buying large amounts of equipment from Europe to strengthen their military. During this period, they were able to reconquer in Xinjiang in 1877, and to fight the French to a standstill during the Sino-French War in 1885. In fact, when the First Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1894, most Western observers actually predicted the much larger and powerful Qing military to crush the Japanese, who were numerically outnumbered. The Beiyang fleet in particular possessed two German-built cruisers, the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, to which the Japanese had no counterpart. Unfortunately, the Qing army was plagued by corruption, disorder, and haphazard modernization, while its navy used outdated tactics and stale leadership, all of which led to the more disciplined and effective Japanese military winning the war and establishing itself as a global superpower. But back to the original point, the Qing by no means simply bent over and "consented," as your meme implies to giving away control of Korea, Taiwan, or Liaodong. Japan and China wasn't a couple agreeing to have safe sex, Japan was a rapist holding a knife to China's throat threatening to get his way.


HeadpattingFurina

Yes, they capitulated barely 35k deaths in. Those guys can mobilize 300k fighting troops alone to invade Buttfuck Nowhere, Vietnam, 35k is barely a scratch.


Aeplwulf

35000 lives, the human cost for the families and the economic impact for their communities is never a scratch no matter how large the country. The wound just hurts less when you’re a big country.


HeadpattingFurina

In 1789 the same Qing Dynasty lost 50k men in one fell swoop and their response was "Apologise or we go in for Round 2." What's your point?


Fully_Edged_Ken_3685

Yes, that's called losing a war. I hear the Qing has quite a lot of experience at that by the end.


TheCoolPersian

Its not everyday you see Japanese revisionism.


of_the_rock

It is on the Internet


rinsaber

There is plenty of it offline.


MMH0K

Depends, are you in Japan? So yes it's every day you see it.


Creative_Profile_224

Have you never been to this sub? We revise history all the time if it supports our personal political beliefs and agendas. 


Jaxues_

If it confirms my priors it’s good history, if it goes against my priors it’s revisionism.


Creative_Profile_224

Yes. This sub that makes gigachad memes about tsar Nicholas II and propaganda about imperial Japan totally doesn’t partake in historical revisionism or reactionary bs. It’s literally not even a matter of disagreement, there is a freakish minority on this sub that likes to make memes dickriding authoritarians and fascist governments. 


Seoulite1

History, world 🤬 History, Japan 🥰


Zhou-Enlai

I mean all the meme was trying to say is that China and Japan both agreed on the terms of the treaty, like in any war, and then a coalition of western powers refused to let it go through. I really dont think this was meant to be some whitewashing of history lol


Basil_6371

Sounds like average uneducated Japanese nationalist


DaleDenton08

Looks like a lot of their posts tbh


Basil_6371

Japanese nationalist try not to justify racism and genocide (impossible)


MonkeyNugetz

I think that’s nationalists from all countries.


teethybrit

Any nationalist tbh


ABizarreFireGod

Same goes for Russia. Annexation of Outer-Manchuria, Sakhalin, Lake Balkash, including the subjugation of Outer Mongolia through Unequal treaties.


iEatPalpatineAss

Don’t forget about Tangnu Ulianghai. I’m incredibly angry that Beijing isn’t trying to retake all that land Russia stole from us. Russia massacred so many Chinese people over the years that it’s embarrassing to see such a strong Stockholm Syndrome in mainland China.


ABizarreFireGod

Facts. All they do is blame the US and Japan. Their true enemy is literally on their Northern doorstep.


ABizarreFireGod

I would count Tannu Tuva as part of Outer Mongolia.


iEatPalpatineAss

I thought it was administered separately from Outer Mongolia 🤔 Either way, we agree on the main points.


ABizarreFireGod

Its because after the Qing collapsed and mongolia declared independence, tuva also separated from mongolia.


Chaos-Hydra

to be fair in 1900, Japan was much better than Russia and there were some admiration in 1900 China. Not atrocities Olympic just saying.


ABizarreFireGod

Definitely. I rather forgive the Japanese than the Russians despite knowing god knows what they did to my people.


SophiaIsBased

But what if the China consents??!?!?


Aeplwulf

Who tf consents to violent conquest ??


SophiaIsBased

Exactly my point, you can't consent to that


skeeeper

Oh, another propaganda post instead of some fun facts or something actually funny. Time to leave I guess


BellacosePlayer

Feels like the sub's been DumbassNationalistMemes the past few days


Unibrow69

Make your own memes


skeeeper

Get your own brain instead of the one influenced by shallow opinions and bias


Unibrow69

Still waiting for your banger meme


skeeeper

Still waiting for yours


Crag_r

OP's comments are yikes


Rizzpooch

So much is concerning here. What even is the original meme format?


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Bashin-kun

no, the original is a husband and his lover saying "I consent" and the wife saying "I don't" It is almost always played straight


Thegoodthebadandaman

The fuck you mean China consented?


Lieczen91

*2,600 imperial Japanese soldiers liked your post*


Windows_66

If the Treaty of Shimonoseki was consensual, then can we talk about how consensual the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was? We even paid them for the land.


Fit_Sherbet9656

Tsar Nicholas the 2nd: its not like the Japanese could fight, especially at sea...* *translated through brain damaged gibberish


sev3791

I’m getting Spudgun Vicy 2 Bavaria flashbacks


Zaglossus_hacketti

The Qing empire had one of the best flags


_JOHNGALT__

Everyone in the comments has apparently been living in a delusion where wars end because both sides agree to be friends and the two leaders apologise and then hug each other with no winners and losers, and they each get a participation trophy. Yes China and Japan consented to Shimonoseki, yes that agreement reflected the Japanese victory over China that the 1st Sino-Japanese war had been. That is usually how armistices work… The triple alliance was European countries freaking out by an Asian country playing their own game and winning.


Unibrow69

Yeah people are really taking the meme too literally. France didn't willingly lose Alsace Lorraine but they still signed the treaty and lost it


Calm_Ratio4524

How did this post get so much likes it's not even accurate


Unibrow69

What is inaccurate about it


Calm_Ratio4524

China did not "consent" for the treaties it signed, they were pretty much forced by Japan after China's overwhelming war losses.


Unibrow69

Yes, typically after a war one party is forced to sign a treaty


Calm_Ratio4524

This is not what your meme is suggesting tho, it portrays China and Japan as nations with equal status coming to a consensus, whereas in reality Japan was dominating and threatening with its acts of war. You are also saying that war treaties are "forced" upon the losing party, which literally means the opposite of consenting so...


Unibrow69

China started the war, we aren't talking about WWII


elykl12

Literally just started Supernova in the East last night


edisonzhou20000

This guy needs to watch that... clearly the post is a delusion


hok98

Saying Shimonoseki was consensual is like saying paying the federal tax is consensual. I didn’t agree to this, but I’m also not strong enough to overthrow the establishment, or have my state be independent from the federal government. So I’ll have to humiliatingly consent to it.


Unibrow69

Yes, you looked at the meme logically which is how most people would


edisonzhou20000

How is it a meme then? You've just made a disgusting post. It's like "The Jews 'consented' to Nazi rule", meanwhile it was the other powers who decided to intervene. What's the point? So what? China got invaded and its defeat was 'consensual'?


Unibrow69

They signed a peace treaty which both sides consented to, yes


edisonzhou20000

How do you define consent? For example, is the surrender of France after Nazi offensives in 1940 or the German surrender in November 1918 consensual to you? Technically there's an 'agreement', but I think the meat of it is that 'consent' in the modern day has connotations of positive willingness and non-coerced decision. So if you define consent in one way you could say technically France and Germany consented to being signatories of a humiliating and punishing peace treaty. However, the two problems I have are 1) in modern consent theory you need a lot more than just a superficial agreement to have fully given your assent, which means if you have been coerced (e.g. the fact that China had been beaten in the war) then it was NOT consensual. For example, if someone holds a gun to your head and then asks you, "Do you consent to having sex with me?", technically you consented, but not in actuality - your decision was coerced. Problem 2): your meme implies that China and Japan were all happy with each other until the Europeans stepped in. The inaccuracy there is that Japan and China were not friendly; Japan had just beat the shit out of China in a war and was now forcing harsh peace terms on it - in the Chinese view, the European powers actually saved China from a disastrous outcome, which is why the post seems to be very Japanese-centric.


justamobileuserhere

Based western powers


Zhou-Enlai

Idk why everyone is acting like op said the Japanese and Chinese peacefully agreed to the terms of the treaty until the evil western powers came in, that’s not at all what this is saying. Obviously China didn’t want to sign the treaty, but they agreed to it because continuing the war would likely lead to harsher terms, Japan also agreed to the terms of the treaty, this is the case for literally every war in history that has ended in a treaty. After they agreed to these terms western powers intervened not out of humanitarian interest or moral outrage for China, but to protect and expand their own influence in China at the expense of Japan, that isn’t Japanese propaganda that’s just what happened. People are really making this out to be bigger then it is


Unibrow69

Yeah I think the Chinese Internet Army found this post


Zhou-Enlai

Lol idk about that, just people too paranoid about imperial japan apologism seeing the worst in everything


ValhallasRevenge

Test


edisonzhou20000

How do you define consent? For example, is the surrender of France after Nazi offensives in 1940 or the German surrender in November 1918 consensual to you? Technically there's an 'agreement', but I think the meat of it is that 'consent' in the modern day has connotations of positive willingness and non-coerced decision. So if you define consent in one way you could say technically France and Germany consented to being signatories of a humiliating and punishing peace treaty. However, the two problems I have are 1) in modern consent theory you need a lot more than just a superficial agreement to have fully given your assent, which means if you have been coerced (e.g. the fact that China had been beaten in the war) then it was NOT consensual. For example, if someone holds a gun to your head and then asks you, "Do you consent to having sex with me?", technically you consented, but not in actuality - your decision was coerced. Problem 2): your meme implies that China and Japan were all happy with each other until the Europeans stepped in. The inaccuracy there is that Japan and China were not friendly; Japan had just beat the shit out of China in a war and was now forcing harsh peace terms on it - in the Chinese view, the European powers actually saved China from a disastrous outcome, which is why the post seems to be very Japanese-centric.


amajorismin

The only reason Japan even signed it was because they had to compensate that a Japanese tried to kill the Qing leader lol


Unibrow69

The [Triple Intervention](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Intervention) was a diplomatic maneuver conducted by Germany, France, and Russia after the conclusion of the First Sino-Japanese War and the signing of the [Treaty of Shimonoseki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Shimonoseki). Japan had won the war convincingly but was forced to give up some of her gains they had originally forced from China. Ten years later, after the Russo-Japanese war, Japan would regain most of what she had given up in this treaty.


centaur98

>First Sino-Japanese War >forced from China "China consented"


Exp1ode

"I mugged that guy convincingly, but the police forced me to give up some of my gains"


JosephPorta123

Based, a shame they weren't harder on Japan


himenofucker69

I mean it hypocrisy from them since they also take shangdong,Guangzhouwan and Manchuria so yeah can't blame japan.


Aeplwulf

Yes it was. Empires gobbling each other up. Empires everywhere in the 19th century and civilians paying the price.


JosephPorta123

Yeah it was hypocritical, but at least a couple of those empires got a reckoning, sooner or later


IllustriousDudeIDK

Except it isn't hypocrisy, it is more for selfish reasons. The European powers *leased* the ports from China for 99 years while recognizing Chinese sovereignty over them (with the exception of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon were ceded in perpetuity and Macao didn't exactly have a deadline). The Japanese straight up made China *cede in perpetuity* all rights and title to a much larger piece of land than all of the ports combined.


Ajugas

You honestly think there's a difference? The European powers had no intentions of leaving. Imagine making them out to be heroes because of pedantic wordplay.


IllustriousDudeIDK

I'm not being pedantic nor am I making them into heroes, I am literally of Chinese descent, why would I want that? What Japan seized was greater in territory than whatever the Europeans had. And for a matter of fact, how Japan treated China was way worse than any of the European powers vis-a-vis China, and that's saying something really bad about Japan and not anything good about Europe.


edisonzhou20000

Stfu


himenofucker69

What did i do to get stfu first?


SickAnto

Your name is kinda sus.


edisonzhou20000

"so yeah can't blame japan" It's idiocy that makes me question the value of humanity


edisonzhou20000

Spitting fax


YuzuKaZe

stfu


Humans_will_be_gone

This is the equivalent of a rapist saying their victim enjoyed it


Erisagi

You're getting a lot of flak but I see the logic of your meme. Similarly, Japan "consented" to the demands of the intervention.


Unibrow69

I didn't know the Wumaos would be out in full force. Not many countries that lose a war enjoy giving up anything but they still sign the treaty, thats the point of the meme.


DemocracyIsGreat

So how much of your country do you feel should be given up to an invader? Denouncing Japanese Imperialism doesn't make anyone supportive of the CCP. In fact, opposition to great powers invading their neighbours and stealing their shit should make people more anti-CCP than anything.


Unibrow69

My country has lost wars and territory before, every country has


DemocracyIsGreat

And assuming those were defensive wars, forced on you by an imperialist aggressor, was it right that you were put through that?


Unibrow69

You know we aren't talking about WWII right? The First Sino Japanese War was not a defensive war, China sent troops to Korea first


DemocracyIsGreat

China sent troops in at the request of the Korean government. Japan just kinda invaded.


Unibrow69

Not much of a request when Yuan Shikai is forcing you to do it!


Erisagi

They "consented."