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In modern times, China lags behind Western countries in science and technology, so it is often bullied and attacked by Western powers, and many citizens are displaced and lose their loved ones. These Western powers have brought heavy harm to China, but in the eyes of a generation of famous marshals in our country, the harm caused to China by the Western powers is far less than that of a certain asian country, and if the country is not eliminated, it will become a major disaster. Sure enough, his prophecies were all fulfilled 40 years later.
Li Hongzhang stills
The person who made this prediction was Li Hongzhang, who was a heavy minister in the late Qing Dynasty and a leader of the Western affairs movement. The vigorous foreign affairs movement gave China the opportunity to introduce advanced weapons and equipment and science and technology from the Western powers, and greatly improved the domestic industrial base. Li Hongzhang also took this opportunity to purchase a large number of naval warships and became the commander of the Beiyang Fleet. However, the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War gave Japan a blow to China, and the reform achievements brought about by the foreign affairs movement for more than a decade were destroyed.
Japanese warships during the Battle of Ko-yō
After signing the "Maguan Treaty," Li Hongzhang said bitterly, saying that if Japan is not eliminated, it will become a major disaster. Sure enough, the huge profits seized in the Sino-Japanese War did not satisfy Japan's appetite, and Japan invaded China in an all-round way 40 years later, and a large amount of China's territory fell. The suffering inflicted by the Japanese army on Chinese throughout the war was immeasurable, and the crimes they committed were uncountable.
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
In fact, the reason why Li Hongzhang made such a prediction is because he knows Japan's national conditions too well. The Japanese state is a small island country with poor domestic resources and cannot meet the needs of domestic industrial development, so it can only expand abroad and obtain resources through force, and China, which is close at hand and has a weak national strength, has become Japan's target. At first, Japan was still relatively restrained, and its arrogance had not yet been fully exposed. When it figured out China's defense system, it began to adopt the whale-to-swallow China plan, pulling China under the iron heel of Japan. Fortunately, the country was finally defeated, and now after years of development, China's military strength has steadily increased, and no country has dared to easily provoke China.
Oil paintings of the War of Resistance Against Japan