The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 was Japan’s invasion of China and Korea from the end of July 1894 to April 1895. It was an unjust war of aggression launched by Japan. The outbreak of the war was marked by the Battle of Toshima. The Treaty of Shimonoseki signed after the war was humiliating and humiliating, bringing the Chinese nation into the abyss of disaster.

The Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894 was a major event in the modern history of China and the world. The Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War was caused by the competition between China and Japan for control of the Korean Peninsula. The war began with the Battle of Toshima on July 25, 1894. On August 1, the Qing government of China declared war on Japan and issued a declaration of war against Japan's Emperor Meiji.

After Japan’s Meiji Restoration, the capitalist economy developed rapidly and Japan became an industrialized country. In order to expand the market, plunder resources, and expand economic roads, the Japanese ruling group used military aggression to compete for colonies.

As a result, Japan pointed its finger at China, which was vast, vast, resourceful, weak and backward, and used North Korea as a springboard to attack China. In 1890, Japan first sent a large number of troops to North Korea and occupied Incheon and Seoul. The Japanese army then invaded the Korean palace, kidnapped King Ri Xi, and established a puppet regime of Quan Hongji. On July 25, Japan undeclared war and launched a sneak attack on the Chinese troop transport "Gaosheng" outside Asan Pass in North Korea. The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1898 broke out.

The Sino-Japanese War lasted for more than nine months. As a result, China was defeated. The Chinese army withdrew from the Korean Peninsula, ceded Taiwan, Penghu and their affiliated islands to Japan, and opened many inland port cities in China to Japan. Compensate the Japanese army with 230 million taels of silver. China's international status has plummeted, a large amount of wealth has flowed out, and the country has declined.

China's defeat in the Sino-Japanese War marked the failure of the Westernization Movement, which enabled China's domestic reformers to have a deeper understanding of their own weaknesses and prepare to actively carry out further reforms.

The victory of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 made Japan a powerful country in Asia, completely getting rid of its semi-colonial status, which further aggravated Japan's arrogance and ambition to dominate.

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