>>17974445
In 1895, chinks had more capital battleships than the japs which had literally exterminated/assimilated their former aristocracy to the nihhonese psuedo-prussia and embraced the Jeanne école to barely win the engagement
Qings also had a modernization programs since the opium war bu then which your post is more apt for.
>Chinks didn't throw wooden junks with 17th century wooden canons against Isekai IJN Yamato and gundam zeros
>Japs actually went on to use a captured chink battleship the chinks themselves had built in 1905