The Qing's Counterfactual Response to the Foreign Invasion

If we had the same, now I realize this actually logically won't make a whole lot of sense, but I'll ask it anyway. If we had had missionary activity in China, or at least a response by the Qing government and local elites that did not look either like supplicants or incapable of responding to local demands about some of the missionary activity, does the trajectory of this diverge markedly? So as the formula, you know, foreign encroachment, plus perceived and competent governance response equals hostile nationalism to the regime. Whereas foreign hostility, foreign encroached, plus confident, strong response by state apparatus, if potentially imperfect, but nonetheless perceived as competent equals potentially nationalism, but state supportive