The main purpose of capitalist imperialist powers coming to China is not to turn backward China into advanced China, but to force China to become a vassal state of western powers forever. The imperialist powers invaded China and turned an independent China into a semi-colonial and colonial China. The imperialist aggression against China was the general source of poverty and backwardness in modern China.
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The imperialist powers launched a war of aggression against China and massacred the people of China, but demanded that the people of China pay double the cost of the war.
During the Opium War, the British invaders forced the local government of the Qing Dynasty to pay a city redemption fee of 6 million yuan in Guangzhou. After the war, treaty of nanking was even used to grab compensation of 2,654,380+0 million yuan. As a result of the Second Opium War, Britain and France each received compensation of 8 million taels of silver. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Japan forced China to pay 200 million taels of silver through the treaty of shimonoseki, plus 30 million taels to redeem Liao,1.5000 taels for Japanese troops stationed in Ahava, and * * * 231.5000 taels was equivalent to the fiscal revenue of the Qing government for more than three years.
However, the "Xin Chou Treaty" signed by Eight-Nation Alliance after the war stipulated that China should pay compensation as high as 450 million taels of silver, which will be paid off in 39 years, with a total principal and interest of nearly 654.38+0 billion taels. This kind of compensation is an open plunder of China by foreign invaders.
In addition, during the war of aggression against China, the imperialist aggressors openly plundered China's wealth and treasures and wantonly destroyed China's cultural relics and historical sites. 1860 10 before the British and French allied forces invaded Beijing, they first robbed and burned the palace of the Qing emperor, Yuanmingyuan. 1in August, 900, after Eight-Nation Alliance occupied Beijing, countless treasures of gold and silver, precious cultural relics and ancient books in the Forbidden City and the Forbidden Parks in Beihai, Zhongnanhai and Summer Palace were plundered by them. The Japanese invaders also plundered 3 million taels of silver from the treasury of the Ministry of Finance.