Of course, it was obviously impossible for them to take an interest in East Africa merely because both were monarchies. The two countries also shared many similarities in other respects, such as centralization, state-run enterprises, ethnicity, and so on.
Across the entire world, East Africa's centralization could be said to have no equal, while such states were almost impossible to find in Europe and America.
The large number of state-run enterprises established during the Far East Empire's Self-Strengthening Movement also bore many similarities to East African state-owned enterprises, offering the Far East Empire's officials some reference for their own model of running enterprises.
In a sense, the Self-Strengthening Movement had now failed, but its supporters could fully use East African enterprises as a case study. Of course, the enterprises established during the Self-Strengthening Movement had been absolutely beneficial to the Far East Empire's industry; their failure had mainly been political.
As for ethnicity, East Africa, as a mixed-race nation, had a substantial proportion of Chinese immigrants, which in some sense also refuted Western racial theories.
Of course, Western countries and the Far East Empire approached issues from different positions and perspectives. Western countries naturally credited East Africa's achievements to European immigrants, after all, even its supreme ruler was a European noble. The Far East Empire, meanwhile, believed that Chinese immigrants had made important contributions to East Africa's development and played an enormous role in East African society. Svit, who currently presided over East Africa's economic affairs, was ethnic Chinese. This fully demonstrated that Chinese people were in no way inferior to the ethnic Germans within the Far East Empire.
If this question were put to Ernst, then naturally there were no differences between races. At least, there was currently no fundamental evidence proving racial differences. Even the African natives who