A Britishman rightly questioned Jin Yinan and said: "You Chinese not keep your promises, the Treaty of Nanking is in black and white, and Hong Kong is permanently ceded, but you have all taken it back." General Jin Yinan responded domineeringly: "On the day of the founding of New China, we had already announced that we would not recognize all unequal treaties."
General Jin's words made the British dumbfounded, but also made us feel bloody after listening, and the reason why General Jin Yinan was so confident was because he was backed by a rising and powerful China.
100 years ago, China's national strength was weak, poor and white, like a lion that did not wake up, unable to stand up and let others slaughter and bully.
In 1840, after the First Opium War, China began to fall into the reparations for land cutting and allowing others to slaughter.
In 1842, China and Britain signed the Treaty of Nanjing, ceding Hong Kong and compensating 21 million taels of silver;
In 1860, China, Britain, and China and France signed the Treaty of Beijing, ceding Kowloon to Britain and compensating 8 million taels of silver;
In 1898, China and Britain signed the New Territories Lease, and the British forcibly leased the New Territories for a period of 99 years.
In 1895, China and Japan signed the Treaty of Maguan, ceding the Liaodong Peninsula, Taiwan Island and its affiliated islands, and the Penghu Archipelago to Japan, paying 200 million taels of silver.
In 1901, the Treaty of Xinugu was signed, and China compensated the great powers with 980 million taels of silver; since then, China has completely degenerated into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.
100 years later, China's economy recovered and its national independence became the world's largest trading country, the world's second largest economy, and the world's second largest foreign investment attractor.
With such a powerful country on its back, will it still fear the provocations and unequal treatment of others as it once did?
In 2016, in the farce of the Huangyan Island arbitration case led by the United States, China regarded the illegal ruling as waste paper, and resolutely fought back against the military threat of the two US aircraft carrier strike groups, firmly controlling the sovereignty of Huangyan Island in our hands!
Imagine if history were reversed a hundred years ago, wouldn't China still accept the verdict of humiliation?
Facts have proved that backwardness means being beaten, and strength is the last word.
Now, our country is strong, the people are rich, and their lives are well-off, but many people have forgotten history.
Looking back at the vicissitudes of the Chinese nation over the past hundred years, only by not forgetting history and being familiar with the heroic deeds of revolutionary martyrs can we always maintain our national bloodiness; only by keeping history firmly in mind and remaining sober, can our country stand tall among the nations of the world and not fall.
In fact, the world is not peaceful now, but we live in a peaceful and stable country. We must not lose our bloodiness because of the comfortable life we have now, the M imperialist hegemonism is still rampant in the world today, and the Western powers have never left the territory of China.
General Jin Yinan said: Those who forget history will eventually be forgotten by history. Chinese parents must let their children have a good history from primary school, remember history, do not forget the national shame, and maintain the bloodiness of Chinese!