Imperialism 21st Century.
China has a lot of issues involving Imperialism, since they refused they have fallen behind of Europeans. There is a lot they need to do in order to get in line and not fall out of it.
Since the 17th century the rulers refused western ways. Because of that they have fallen behind in technology. Late 1800’s they had started trading opium, they tried to stop imports of the drug. 1839 the british fought with the chinese in the opium war, britain’s superior and strength led to a victory.
Treaty of Nanjing. 1842 britain forced China to agree to the terms of the treaty, china had to pay for britain’s war cost, open ports for british trades, and give britain the island of Hong Kong. Western powers carved the spheres of influence, they are area in which outside power claimed exclusive trade involved build roads, railroads, factories.
Reaction to Imperialism. The Taiping Rebellion, lasted from 1850 - 1864 peasants revolted against Qing officials. Boxer Rebellion. In 1900 the group the boxers assaulted communities across China. Armies from the west and Japan destroyed the rebellion and forced the chinese to give even more influence in China.
WWII. The civil war ceased to fight the Japanese forces. The communist and Nationalist fight against the Japanese. Then the Civil war continued.
The Cultural Revolution. 1966, Mao wanted to renew peoples loyalty to communism. Mao feared people may try to overthrow it, schools and universities were shut down. Students formed groups of fighters, they attacked professors, government officials, and factory managers.
Mao died in 1976 and Deng Xiaoping took power, brought more economic freedom but political change.
Deng’s Four Modernizations, Deng promoted foreign trade. He introduced the four modernizations, Farming - Modernize and Mechaniz.
Industry - Upgrade and expand.
Science and Technology - Encouraged development.
Defense - improve military forces.
Deng got rid of the communes, he allowed lang to be leased to individual farmers. After giving some food to the government the farmers could sell it for a profit, Private businesses were allowed to produce goods.
Tiananmen Square, Chinese government was willing to grant economic reforms. Unwilling to make any political reforms though, May 1989. Demanding more rights, they refused to disperse as ordered. Thousands were killed.
China has been having a downfall since day 1, they start battles they can’t win. They produce a ton of produce and do not sell it, they keep it for themselves, they have a lot of problems with other countries. They need to get back on track because going to the right of the track was a bad idea for them, if they were to stop communism and have a different political choice we would probably help them.
Hopefully they will accept our help, and we can become allies later on then no one would have any chance compared to our military. The odds of us becoming allies with China is very low because they do not enjoy our presence anywhere near them. If we don’t do something about China I have a feeling they will come over here and attack us, if they were to attack us. They would have a very good chance of destroying our military because theres is a lot bigger then ours.
That is my opinion on the Tiananmen square movement.
