Indian scholars say that the British called the Opium War an Anglo-Chinese war

Indian scholar Vijay Prashad, who denounced the West as an "eternal colonial mentality and colonial structure" at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said in an exclusive interview with the Global Times recently.

[The British are more accustomed] to calling the Opium War the Anglo-Chinese War. But the Chinese fleet did not run to England to provoke war, and Chinese did not bomb England, calling it the Anglo-Chinese War was wrong. There was no Anglo-Chinese war, only one war imposed on China by Britain.

Jay said this when talking about the colonial mentality of the West. He said the West had forgotten the past as if it were amnesia, and that British rule over Hong Kong had no democracy to speak of, but now it was preaching; Britain had ruled India for 200 years, had no democracy, and left with only 13 percent of Indians literate. Western colonialism, which has a history of more than 500 years, still teaches us like children, as if they have the answers to all their questions and are the best judges. Yet the United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, but he is constantly talking about human rights in other countries.

Jay's description of the Anglo-Chinese War (Opium War) once again reminds the Chinese people that the Opium War was nothing more than a morally depraved, barbaric and shameless violent attack. The British call this war only reflects its nature of still unrepentant, stubborn and selfish, and confusing right and wrong. Coupled with the burning of the Yuanmingyuan by the British and French coalition forces, it also shows the so-called grade of Western civilization. There is an idiom called Mu Monkey and Crown, monkeys washed clean, and then dressed in chu chu, it is still difficult to hide their monkey nature.

The strength of force and cultural civilization are two different things. Even if you can seize the land of civilization by brute force, the lower culture cannot control the higher civilization in any way, which is the fundamental reason why The Chinese civilization has endured hardships but has not fallen, and it has also made the attempt to Westernize and peacefully evolve China finally become a laughing stock.

We don't talk about systems, because in the end, systems have to be implemented by people. In the final analysis, the development and progress of human society depends on and is expressed in culture. Whether It is China's institutional superiority or its great achievements, in the final analysis, it is determined by the height of our culture. Human rights and democracy are essentially the pursuit of self and freedom from bondage, which is the nature of any living thing. To call the satisfaction of the original nature to be tall is either childish or foolish.