There is some badly inaccurate information in that description. The Qing dynasty’s self-strengthening movement wasn’t anything like the Meiji Restoration. For one thing it was a flat failure. And far from being the strongest military in the world, the Qing Dynasty in 1894 would only have lost a serious war to even middling powers.
A strong army of the rising sun
Or
A small band of Rebles & Revolutionaries took down a Metallic and Advanced Empire
And yet sometimes it looks like it wasn’t enough.
No, it will get nuked, twice.