History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
The late Qing Dynasty was a humiliating history, with Lin Zexu Humen smoke as the fuse, the Opium War was on the verge of breaking out, the great powers began the pace of aggression, the Opium War not only caused damage to territorial sovereignty, but also caused the people to fall into a panic. The ensuing Second Opium War, under the coercion and inducement of the Eight-Nation Alliance, put the Qing Dynasty in an embarrassing dilemma. After the war of aggression against China, the arrogant powers even proposed to divide China's territory, but to everyone's surprise, the Eight-Power Alliance invaded China, and 7 countries agreed to divide China. Could it be that it was discovered by conscience?
First of all, let's introduce the members of the Eight-Power Alliance, which are composed of 8 countries, including Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan, the United States, Austria, and Hungary, and together they constitute the main force invading China. When proposing partition, only the United States stood up against it, and their ultimate purpose was to safeguard their own interests. For the United States at that time, opposing the partition was a manifestation of safeguarding its own rights and interests. It is conceivable that if these eight countries really sit together and negotiate the issue of sharing the spoils after the war, after all, they are all part of the war, and the United States can naturally have the opportunity to share the bowl of China, so why does it oppose it?
The United States, as an emerging country with a short history, is facing major problems in development, and at that time the United States tried its best to create a more just and awe-inspiring image of foreign countries, and did not dare to easily divide China, and was also afraid of cutting off economic and trade exchanges with similar small countries.
On the other hand, the reason is the internal contradiction between the eight countries, when the eight-power alliance was first formed, the manpower and material resources of each country were different, taking Italy and Austria-Hungary, these two countries seemed to be deliberately counting. At the beginning, each country sent some troops to invade China, and Italy and Austria-Hungary only sent a few dozen soldiers, which is really too big. When it comes to dividing the results, there are naturally many problems.
Among them, the more positive is the Tsarist Russia and Japan, naturally in the division of China's attitude will be more tough, after all, they are very greedy, they are closer to China, can better control China, while the United States is farther away, it is difficult to obtain the greatest benefits, with the strength of the United States at that time certainly can not confront Tsarist Russia, but is not willing to be in a relatively weak position in the distribution of benefits. As far as the United States is concerned, the reason for opposition is simple: it wants to delay time, accumulate enough time to develop its own economy, and wait until it grows and grows, and then divide China to get the greatest benefits.
It has to be said that the United States has played a good job in its wishful thinking, on the one hand, it has won itself a high reputation in the international community, and it has won a certain amount of development time for itself. Backwardness means being beaten, so only by continuously developing and growing, and learning from history, can we not be bullied, and now China has stood up