History has its own life, it is like a person, both easy-going and self-respecting. ——Yu Qiuyu
From 1840 to 1949, for more than 100 years of history, China has been in a state of aggression and oppression. From the two Opium Wars, to the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War and the Eight-Power Alliance's War of Aggression against China, to the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, China was devastated by imperialist countries at all times. Before and after, more than a dozen countries such as Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Portugal, and the United States stepped into China's door. During that time, it can be said that "the country is not like the country, and the home is not like home."
Current situation diagram
Throughout the history of the world, no country has been invaded by other countries many times, only China.
But why?
Japan, which had invaded China many times, before 1860, like the Qing government of China at that time, was closed to the country and self-imposed. However, since the "Black Boat" incident, Japan began the Meiji Restoration, and quickly became the largest power in East Asia from a small East Asian country to an imperialist country.
The Incident of Japanese Ships
In contrast, Although China carried out the foreign affairs movement in this process, it did not cure the symptoms and did not cure the root causes, and it was declared a failure during the Sino-Japanese War in China in 1895.
Sino-Japanese War
The reason for this is two words: cowardice. Because we are not strong enough, because we are weak, because we are weak.
Just like us people, if you are beaten, you can choose to fight back, even if you lose, but people have seen your tough side, will you be jealous, barefoot is still afraid of wearing shoes; you can also choose to ask for forgiveness, although you will not be beaten again, but in the future everyone thinks that you are a weak and deceitful master, everyone can step on you. This is human nature, so it is not unreasonable to say that "people are good and are deceived, and horses are good and are ridden".
The same is true of countries.com. Judging from the historical development of the world, no country has ever been stained with blood or invaded. Britain, the first power of modern times, its "sun never sets" road, is full of war figures, through continuous colonial expansion, it has laid its position.
Since the First Opium War, China's seemingly huge Qing Empire has been fought in a war without the ability to fight back, and it was instantly exposed to the vision of Western countries. Twenty years later, the Second Opium War broke out.
Two Opium Wars
The predatory of the weak not only appears in nature, but also applies to people and countries. At the same time that modern China is closed to the outside world, it is the big era of capitalist development, and we are in that era, but we have not grasped it.
After the War of Resistance Against Japan, we in China finally won victory in the recent history of resisting the aggressors, and it is precisely because of this that we were able to have a place after the end of the Second World War. China played a non-negligible role in World War II.
Pre-War of Resistance Against Japan
Entering the contemporary society, as China plays an important role in the world, I believe that the future China will definitely realize the dream of "the rise of the Chinese nation".