Talk about "your understanding of the capitalist-imperialist invasion of China"?

Objectively, the invasion of Western capitalist countries opened the door to China, broke the relatively closed pattern of China, and contributed to the disintegration of the natural economy. Advanced Western modern technology and production methods partly entered China (as evidenced by the rise of the foreign affairs movement and the emergence of the early national bourgeoisie), and at the same time Western modern civilization also entered China. All these objectively contributed to a certain extent to China's modernization.

It is important to note that these were only additive effects of Western aggression on China. Subjectively, the Western capitalist countries invaded China not in any way to promote China's development, but to try to control China's vast market and rich resources for the sake of their own capitalist development.

Western countries opened China's gates by forceful invasion, ceded our territories and destroyed our customs system, all of which seriously trampled on the international law on the inviolability of national sovereignty, and seriously undermined and eroded our sovereignty in political and economic aspects.

Western countries have plundered our economy and natural resources, only the Treaty of Simchung forced China to pay compensation of 450 million taels of silver, the principal and interest totaled more than 980 million taels, long-term serious constraints on the development of China's economy and society; the Western countries have also massacred our people, only the Nanjing Massacre killed 300,000 Chinese compatriots.

These are enough to prove that the invasion of our country by the western countries is an unmitigated disaster for our country and a heinous crime committed by the western countries against China and the Chinese people.

After the first Opium War in 1840, China entered a century of humiliating history, kicking off the prelude to the invasion of China by the imperialist powers and the partition of China.

With the invasion of the great powers, they gradually dismantled China's 2,000-year-old feudal system and self-sufficient agrarian economic system, accelerated China's historical process, and made China enter into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal social system, accelerated the revolutionary process of China, and made China enter into the period of democratic revolution ahead of time, accelerated the economic development of China, and made China entered the era of capitalist economy, accelerated the intermingling of central cultures, and made China gradually move from a closed to an open cultural atmosphere.

But the invasion of the Great Powers seriously infringed on China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and seriously violated the Chinese people's national self-esteem and sense of national honor, and brought catastrophic consequences, such as poverty, hunger, humiliation, and death to the vast majority of the Chinese people.