As we all know, China once had a humiliating time in modern history, Chinese people's indomitable resistance, finally completely defeated the invaders and established a new China on a ruin, Chinese the ideas that have been strong for thousands of years, and finally paid the price for it, but compared with it, the great powers ceded the territory of our country in that year, not a few, but never forcibly occupied, but used unequal treaties to forcibly lease.
With the rise of the Industrial Revolution in the West, the level of development of Western societies has doubled in 100 years, and they have adopted a colonialist measure all over the world, India and Australia are British colonies, Southeast Asia is a colony of the United States, but for China, they have not adopted the colonial method, which seems to be somewhat unreasonable in any case.
Where the Qing government lost, it was forcibly occupied, only part of the territory of the frontier, of which Tsarist Russia occupied the most, occupying more than 1.5 million square kilometers of the northwest and even northeast frontiers, britain also used the pretext of forcibly seizing Chinese territory, including many territories including the Pamir Plateau, at that time, Tsarist Russia and Britain respectively looked at China's Xinjiang and Tibet, so the two sides signed a treaty, not interfering with each other, then since it can be forcibly occupied, then some places such as Hong Kong, Macao, Weihaiwei and so on, they can not use the treaty, Directly send troops to occupy, anyway, the Qing government is weak and incompetent, even if they occupy them, they will not say anything more?
In fact, it is not that they do not want to occupy, but they cannot occupy, and when the great powers invade China, they must also take into account various factors, including their own and foreign countries. First of all, the invasion and occupation of China by the great powers will inevitably encounter China's stubborn resistance, which is beyond doubt, to know that in the late Qing Dynasty, China's population has exceeded 400 million, accounting for 40% of the world at that time, once the troops are forcibly occupied, it may set off a strong wave of resistance, which they do not want to see, after all, they have traveled thousands of miles to come, just to seek wealth, and they cannot take their lives.
Moreover, Chinese is indeed arguing on the basis of reason, don't see the weakness of the government, but once they encounter a territory occupied by force, they immediately inform the envoys stationed abroad, solemnly protest, even at the same time as signing various unequal treaties, when leasing, they are not willing to lease for a hundred years, because according to the custom, leasing for more than 100 years is equivalent to tacitly acquiescing that they have become the actual owners of this territory, and China's cultural traditions for thousands of years, including the rulers of the Qing government, cannot sit idly by and watch their own country fall into the hands of the great powers.
In addition, the most crucial point is that the various powers are not very united, in fact, for them, how to transform the greatest interests of their own country is the top priority, once a certain great power sends troops to forcibly occupy China's territory, then it will inevitably be attacked by other powers, after all, they regard China as a huge cake, one person and one bite, no one suffers losses, once a great power wants to monopolize, it will naturally be targeted by others, in this case, it is not wise, from another point of view, The struggle between the great powers for their own interests actually gave China the opportunity and time to strive for strength, so that we can learn our lessons and make a comeback.