Of the eight-nation coalition, only two countries apologized to China and returned national treasures.
Introduction: In the spring of 1900, the Boxers in Hebei, Tianjin, and Beiping developed rapidly. They put forward the slogan of supporting the Qing Dynasty and destroying the foreigners. Most of these people do not have much culture, but they also know that foreigners cannot be allowed to bully China. The Boxers were so powerful that they numbered more than half a million. At the same time, Empress Dowager Cixi attached great importance to the Boxers, and she secretly instructed the government to support them. The Boxers were not at all polite to the foreigners, they punched and kicked, and even shot the foreigners who had committed many evils directly.
The move shocked overseas, and the great powers demanded that the Qing government dissolve all Boxer organizations. The two sides did not negotiate. The eight powers formed tens of thousands of allied forces. They landed at The Mouth of Dagu in Tianjin and then organized their forces to march towards Beiping. At that time, the number of Manchu Qing Eight Banner troops was as high as more than 100,000, and more than 500,000 Boxer militia also vigorously supported. Even so, in the face of foreign guns and cannons, the Qing Dynasty was still defeated.
The Eight-Power Coalition seized the Forbidden City, burned down the Yuanmingyuan, and plundered countless rare treasures. The commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, Wadesi, arrogantly shouted that the Chinese should pay a terrible price. He even sat on the emperor's dragon chair and asked his subordinates to take photos as a souvenir. After this failure, the whole country was shocked. Forty million Chinese are grieving, and our national treasures have been lost overseas. In 1913, the Beiyang government launched an inventory of cultural relics. They found at least 40,000 artifacts missing. And countless were shattered and burned.
However, two of the eight-nation coalition later solemnly apologized to China and returned some of the national treasures. In 1921, Germany established diplomatic relations with the Beiyang government of China. At this time, China was the victorious power of the First World War, and we had reason to recover the cultural relics of that year from the other side. The Germans knew they could not refuse, so they had to return the relics in their hands to us. Later, the cultural relics were also exhibited in Beiping, and the Beijing government regarded it as its diplomatic victory. Another country is the Soviet Union. After the founding of New China, Soviet cultural relics experts came to Beijing to visit, and they returned to us the 64 "Yongle Classics" that they stole that year. In this regard, my Government has highly praised their actions, and the relations between the two countries have become closer.
Conclusion: In the international community, the weak have never had rights. Therefore, the Qing government was corrupt and incompetent, and they could only be slaughtered by the great powers. When the country is stronger, we can get the dignity we deserve. Now that China's economy has achieved remarkable development results, more and more countries have begun to interact with us. At the same time, a number of cultural relics that have been lost overseas for many years have also been discovered, and patriotic merchants have taken the initiative to buy them and donate them to the state.