Why China lost the war, even with a modern fleet
By Chen Yue | China Daily | Updated: 2015-01-13 08:37
A historian who has been studying the First Sino-Japanese War for 15 years.
With its battleships and cruisers made in Europe and sailors trained there, the Beiyang fleet was the most powerful naval power in Asia when it was founded in 1888.
But by the war in 1894, it had been surpassed by the Japanese navy.
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