Speaking of the world's smallest country is naturally the Vatican, the Vatican's land area is only 0.44 square kilometers, placed in China is the area of a small village, the total population of the Vatican does not exceed 600 people, and the proportion of men and women is seriously imbalanced, more women and fewer men, it can be said that beautiful women are everywhere, compared with China is quite weak.
However, it was such a small country that, during the period of the Eight-Power Alliance's invasion of China, also thought of invading China, and although it did not succeed in the end, it caused deep harm to China. The Vatican is a small country with a sparse number of people, but it has survived the world for hundreds of years, mainly thanks to the protection of Italy.
In fact, the Vatican is a country of China, he is in the hinterland of Italy, Italy to the Vatican is like a hen to protect the chicken, after all, if there is smoke in the Vatican, Italy will inevitably be implicated.
Therefore, for many years, Italy has always done its best to protect the Vatican, so that the Vatican can survive in the world, which is why the Vatican's army is only 110 people, but no one has dared to fight him so far.
The entire people of the Vatican are Catholic, and the pope's position in the Vatican is like that of president, the head of the whole country, and all people will obey the pope's command. During the period of the Eight-Power Alliance's invasion of China, with the ability of the Vatican, it was naturally unable to control the Qing government.
Therefore, Vantigan never thought of using any force against the Qing government, and the aggressive measures taken by the Vatican were to spread Catholicism within the Qing Dynasty, so that the people of the Qing Dynasty believed in Catholicism, thus controlling the thinking of the Qing Dynasty. Controlling one's mind is far more important than controlling one's body, which shows how deep Vatican's mind is.
The Vatican sent many missionaries to China to preach Catholicism, but this policy did not succeed, because Chinese had long embraced Buddhism and Confucianism and Taoist thought, which had long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the Qing dynasty.
It is particularly difficult for the Vatican to suddenly want to take root in people's hearts, so the Vatican's plan did not succeed, but many people were also disturbed by Catholic thought, so although the Vatican did not succeed in converting all the Qing Dynasty people to Catholicism, it also caused some influence in the country.
What is even more unbearable for Chinese is that the Vatican has posthumously canonized many Catholics who have planned wars, posthumously canonizing them as preachers or saints, knowing that these people have harmed countless Chinese compatriots, provoked many wars, and are enemies of the Chinese.
The Vatican's move is like Japan's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, which is difficult for Chinese to accept, and naturally will cause great dissatisfaction in the Chinese, but it is because the Qing government was weak at that time, and the Vatican, the smallest country in the world, also felt bullied.
Today, China has grown stronger and become one of the world's great powers in just a few decades, while the Vatican is still a small country, and the gap is clear. After China's growth, the Vatican was also afraid, especially afraid of retaliation from the Chinese, so the Vatican repeatedly apologized to Chinese and prayed for forgiveness.
China has always been a peace-loving country, easy to provoke war, on the other hand, the Vatican's apology voice has also reached China's ears, China is now a big country, naturally do not want to worry with a small country, want to treat the Vatican with a broad mind, so for many years, China has not asked the Vatican for anything.
However, China's failure to retaliate against the Vatican does not mean that China has completely forgiven the Vatican, and those humiliating historical Chinese will never forget, so until today China has established diplomatic relations with many weak and small countries, including Africa, and is unwilling to establish diplomatic relations with the Vatican.