Mainly because they are used to being bullied by Europeans and Americans and westerners, those countries are stronger in the eyes of the Qing government, and if they lose, they lose, nothing. However, the Sino-Japanese War was not painful. The Japanese used to be our students and were "invaded" by the United States decades ago. They suddenly bullied us for decades, and we were defeated after a dozen fights. This is a disgrace, arousing public anger, unprecedented patriotic enthusiasm and increasingly concentrated calls for reform. Kang Youwei wrote a letter on the bus only because he opposed the signing of treaty of shimonoseki.