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China's World View Is Basely Falling Apart
The opium war was the beginning of what came to be known as a century national humiliation, the century of humiliation. For decades after the opium war, various european powers would pick apart china's economy and sovereignty. China fought very hard to not become colonized like i sa inda, right under the british empire. It also recognized that old empires like one like egypt, persia, that they all basically were destroyed by westernization. They had to go throug this long period of figuring out how do we even begin to fight this? Doesn't have to do with ourselves. Like to look at our own institutions or something wrong with the way we have held