Funding Chinese resistance in the Napoleonic coalition style

Collaborators could reconsider their allegiance once Japanese defeat looked plausible and the Republic of China received substantial British support. Chinese resistance would then carry much of the land fighting while Britain supplied money and maritime assistance. The method is compared with Britain's Napoleonic practice of subsidising Prussian, Spanish, and other allied armies rather than deploying the main British army everywhere. Maritime power could thus convert wealth and credit into coalition strength on land. The analogy also makes Chinese forces and political choices central to victory instead of treating the British fleet as sufficient on its own.