The Li-Japanese War

Early China was the world’s major producer of steel, technical innovation and textile manufacturing as well as large commercial ships, which made it Britain's largest foreign trading partner. Until the early 19th c, Britain kept on trading English wool and Indian cotton for Chinese tea and textile, since these two products were largely consumed by the British people. In return, Britain promoted and implemented the opium trade in the Chinese markets to ensure China’s commercial dependency. SOURCE

Opium trade flourished therefore, it was available for all the social Classes in China, Chinese Qing ( first we don’t use footnotes anymore and second you should include this footnote in the para) government seized check the verb the importation of

the motive of this war first started when Japan wanted Korea to accept the western innovation and to replace the old, traditional trade partner “China” by another developed, advanced foreigner “japan” therefore, the Korean peninsula witnessed a split; conservative Koreans versus the pro-Japanese Koreans. The tension grew between the two opposite fronts as a result the Korean king demanded china’s intervention in order to stop the rebellions; China responded to his request and brook change this verb in Korea. Yet, japan considered this intervention as a violation of the LI-LTO what those initials stand for convention, in which both countries agreed to pull back their troops from Korea. It was enough reason for japan to launch the war against china.

As expected Japan easily won the war, it was better prepared and arranged taking into consideration that it embraced modernization and adopted the western military organization. By contrast, the Qing government worked hard to preserve Chinese traditions therefore; it rejected any western innovation. All these reasons boosted the Japanese chances to win the war especially that China’s military was almost broken after the opium

The motive behind such a shift was a convention that the world’s countries were occupied with a Darwinian battle for survival and nations that neglected to fight were distend to decay. It was a good justification for the European powers to enlarge their conquests and to gain new territories. The period between 1870 and 1900, the European forces seized 10 million square miles of domain in Africa and Asia, a fifth of the world's territory mass. Around 150 million individuals were subjected. As a result, the U.S had to choose either to take part in the imperial mission and leading the world or simply to surrender to