>>213818051>>213815570> blocking the entire China coastline would have been easily doneIt’s generally accepted that the Spanish Armada had around 130-ish ships at this time period, even with allies ships who are willing to use their whole navy along with the Spanish to patrol the area and whatnot that is still a thousands of kilometres to cover with plenty of merchant ships being able to escape undetected.
> vast difference in navy powerThey were about equal in this time period, with the Chinese lagging behind only in the mid-18th and 19th centuries. Even with gunpowder weapons perhaps the Europeans were ahead slightly but that alone isn’t enough.
> would destroy Chinese economy, in fact Chinese economy was very reliant in Spanish silverTrue but trade goes bothways, the Spanish economy also relied on these Chinese markets to sustain itself and bought chinese goods too. I think it’s like how the US and China tariffed each other now, it would hurt both sides.
> at that point with an invasion through the south and manchus in the north Ming wouldn't have lasted very longWhen will this invasion take place? why would the Manchus stop at where the Spanish conquered China when they still had much of their banners and parts of the imperial army and already established themselves as a dynasty in Manchuria called the Later Jin? They were fully emboldened to hold all of China. Anyways if the invasion were during the Ming’s collapse its fate is sealed already, it was likely to be suceeded by the Shun were it not for the Qing.
How successful would a naval invasion be? the battle of Macau the Portuguese successfully fended off the dutch while outnumbered despite it being a small tradepost.
> also this doesn't say but some Japanese daimyos aside from obviously Portugal and Filipinos would have joined the invasion tooI don’t think the Daimyos would lend much support when they would be more busy with the political landscape back home. I don’t know about Portugal.
