Why didn't the Brits try colonize China?
>>1218480
A huge country with most of the country united under one rule, unlike India, which was a bunch of city states and small empires. The British might have come out on top but it would take all their might. They did beat China in wars and got Hong Kong.
They were, slowly, along with the rest of Europe.
Qing and Civil War era China, basically had no control over their major coastal cities and even Beijing.
>>1218480
???
They did?
They literally had several colonies in China. It's not like they could immediately take control over the entire country, and they were competing with several other powers as well.
>>1218480
>western style building
>western clothing
>western technology
>western idieology ( got throw in the trash in its birthplace)
>>1218565
> unlike India, which was a bunch of city states and small empires
>Mughal Empire
>Maratha Empire
>Small
The truth is the British came into india right as the Mughals started to decline, it wasn't an immediate takeover either more like creeping common law.
India was closer, colonized first, and had less European competition.
>>1218480
>Never commit to a land war in China
>>1218803
>Never commit to a land war in China
More like you'll never kill enough Chinese
>muh mongol conquest
>muh manchu conquest
>muh nanjing massacre
>>1218480
Because China is a different game.
China was less landgrabby and more of a matter of getting the Chinks to buy your shit and only your shit.
Though the Spastic imperial latecomers like Japan and Germany wanted to turn the place into an India.
>>1218817
No land wars in Asia applies to
>Westerners
>Postwar 20th century.
It came after the huge fuckups of western forces in Vietnam and in Korea
>>1218480
They did.
>>1218833
Not much different, minus the nuke. If it's a genocide war, China stands no chance against the Western
>>1218480
Because Britain thought it more profitable to carve out a small zone (Hong Kong and concessions in Shanghai/Tianjin) and sell manufactured goods to China. France, Russia, and the newly united German Empire also had plans for China and would probably be hostile if Britain wanted to take over by force. It would affect the balance of power back in Europe.
>>1218803
>trusting the worst of the british """"generals""""
