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Beijing? Cringe.
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The outbreak of the Anhui-Zhili War was a monumental shift in China's politics although certainly not a unique one. It had become an unfortunate reality since the fall of the Qing, not the short restoration in 1915 but the fall of the Qing in 1911. The difference was, the last two governmental shifts had been removing monarchist restorations, both Yuan Shikai's attempt to create a new dynasty and the aforementioned short Manchu Restoration. This change was more akin to those, as the change occurred due to the deaths of thousands on the field of battle rather than votes or democracy.

When news of this reached Japan, the reaction was swift and harsh. Hara Takashi's government came out with a radio announcement of Japan's removal of recognition of the Beiyang Government, calling it a failed experiment on whether the power-hungry lords of China could succeed in self-rule and power sharing. It calls into question the Beiyang's ability to unite China in the first place, pointing towards the various separatist movements and disparate governments within China that do not recognize the Beiyang's authority as proof of both the Beiyang's current structure's incompetency and proof of the disregard and dissatisfaction of the Beiyang Government. It points towards the old Beiyang Government as the only democratically elected government China has ever had, and demonizes the new leaders of the Beiyang Government as little more than thugs who wish to only see the Chinese people under their own boots to get rich and spend it on opium.

To make this official, the Japanese Legation in Beijing is evacuated and all its people moved to Tianjin. This includes both Duan Qirui and Xu Shichang who are able to escape undetected, the former still believed to be dead and the latter simply missing. Japanese positions that were legal according to old treaties had already been taken up in the chaos of the Anhui-Zhili War, so they would be maintained as Japan escalates the situation. The Kwantung Army was told to secure the South Manchuria Railway, and the Divisions on Korea are on stand by. Telegraphs are sent to other major powers of Japan's decision, and the reasoning behind it, as well as Japan's prodding to follow suite in not recognizing the same people who just overthrew the first true democratic government in Chinese history.

A more formal message is also sent to the new Beiyang Government after the initial chaos of the evacuation of the Japanese Legation, demanding the stepping down of the new administration and their removal of any governmental position whatsoever after overthrowing the Anfu Club party.

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