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This is actual history, not alternate reality.

One of the most influential events of the year 1900 was the Boxer Rebellion in China. Due to a loss of prestige at Beijing over the defeats in the two Opium Wars, rebels began marching on the capital. The empress, to save her throne, directed the rebels toward the foreign embassies and offices. An 8 nation alliance of the strongest countries was sent to save the besieged ambassadors.

8 Nation Alliance
United Kingdom of Great Britian and Ireland
French 3rd Republic
German Empire
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Kingdom of Italy
Russian Empire
United States of America
Empire of Japan

The alliance marched into China, won the battle, marched through Beijing in triumph, then departed.

By this time, European (and european derived) states and empires had begun to dominate the globe. Europe's population represented a full quarter of all people living on earth at the time. To explain their new found power, Europeans increasingly turned to racial philosophy. They incorrectly assumed that it was the color of their skin, rather than the caliber of their weapons, that won them the world.

One of the oddest signs of european dominance is the country of Japan. From the Meiji restoration onwards, their country embarked upon a radical program of abandoning all things Japanese and embracing all things European. They even considered abandoning their own language in favor of English.

The other oddity is the United States of America. The largest and most populous of the New world former colonies, tried and tested by the Civil War, ends up conquering the Philippines. The country whose very origin is Independence, Freedom and No Taxation Without Representation; the country which should have been #1 in advocating for the rights of colonial peoples, instead imposes a regime just as brutal as its European cousins.

map and flags courtesy of wikipedia

edit 9/24/10: minor changes to africa, europe and background

2/19/12 EDIT:
map base source [link] (orthographic_projection).svg
map base created by [link]

Description
This is actual history, not alternate reality.

One of the most influential events of the year 1900 was the Boxer Rebellion in China. Due to a loss of prestige at Beijing over the defeats in the two Opium Wars, rebels began marching on the capital. The empress, to save her throne, directed the rebels toward the foreign embassies and offices. An 8 nation alliance of the strongest countries was sent to save the besieged ambassadors.

8 Nation Alliance
United Kingdom of Great Britian and Ireland
French 3rd Republic
German Empire
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Kingdom of Italy
Russian Empire
United States of America
Empire of Japan

The alliance marched into China, won the battle, marched through Beijing in triumph, then departed.

By this time, European (and european derived) states and empires had begun to dominate the globe. Europe's population represented a full quarter of all people living on earth at the time. To explain their new found power, Europeans increasingly turned to racial philosophy. They incorrectly assumed that it was the color of their skin, rather than the caliber of their weapons, that won them the world.

One of the oddest signs of european dominance is the country of Japan. From the Meiji restoration onwards, their country embarked upon a radical program of abandoning all things Japanese and embracing all things European. They even considered abandoning their own language in favor of English.

The other oddity is the United States of America. The largest and most populous of the New world former colonies, tried and tested by the Civil War, ends up conquering the Philippines. The country whose very origin is Independence, Freedom and No Taxation Without Representation; the country which should have been #1 in advocating for the rights of colonial peoples, instead imposes a regime just as brutal as its European cousins.

map and flags courtesy of wikipedia

edit 9/24/10: minor changes to africa, europe and background

2/19/12 EDIT:
map base source [link] (orthographic_projection).svg
map base created by [link]