Was China's humiliation equal British barbarism when it came to the history

Question: Was China's humiliation equal British barbarism when it came to the history of the Opium wars!?
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I am not sure about the equality or not, but this is something that is little known or talked about in Britain!.

Certainly there should be a great shame in Britain, about the way they treated the Chinese, but when we look at it in the context of human history it is typical of so much of it, where one nation imposes its own will on another!. To make a comparison Ghengis Khan imposed his will on the world that he could reach with cultural destruction wherever he went- He is a great hero to the Chinese!. However that does not justify what Britain or any of their later allies did to China!. As I say it should be a great source of shame for Britain!.

To their tremendous credit, the Chinese do not hold this against Britain, in fact in my experience they admire the Empire that Britain created in much the same way that they admire Ghengis Khan!.

Today China is showing the world another way for nations to conduct themselves, by offering the hand of friendship to anyone that will take it!. I will take that hand in my own!.

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I am sorry, but the Chinese history that I know is what has been taught to me in China!. When I was at school in the UK, I never studied history after the age of 12!. I didn't even know about the "Opium Wars" before I went to China!.

AND people that I speak to in China, whether it has been in Hebei Province, Beijing, Shanghai and Inner Mongolia (for a short time) DO admire Ghengis Khan, and Kongzi, and Zhu geliang, and Bao gong, and Li bai, and Du fu, and Kang xi and Chairman Mao and Zhou enlai amongst many others!.

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Qin shihuang (another Chinese hero) was building The Great Wall 1,200 years before Genghis Khan!.

The Yuan Dynasty a great Chinese dynasty that the Chinese are proud of was founded by Ghengis Khan and expanded in a similar way by his grandson Kublai Khan, and held sway till the arrival of the Ming dynasty!.

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this is a pointless question, all countries have done bad things!. here is one for you, was china's barbarism in the last century almost unparalleled in human history!?

the british fought to maintain a valuable monopoly that gave them a significant source of income!. the rulers of china fought to keep outsiders from influenceing their people!. the british motives were clearly morally reprehensible, i fail to see your point though!.
throughout history china has demonstrated a very different approach to the value of human life from much of the rest of the world!. china is in essence the last colonial empire on earth!. what i am saying is that making judgements on things that happened more than a century ago in order to make political points about the modern world is idiotic, in much more recent history china has commited crimes against its own people and others that compare with the holocaust!. so yes britains actions were awful, but no worse than those of the chinese government in propping up the morally bankrupt sudanese government while they slaughter people in darfur!. and guess what, thats going on now, not more than a centruy ago!.

you are right i am from liverpool!.
churchill was a very nasty chap in quite a few respects, iam a history student and like to think that i can be objective about things related to my own country, hence i do not idolise churchill, an avowed imperialist!. kindly do not project on to me the prejudices many of my countrymen apparently hold, like you i can look at a great leader from british history without rose tinted glasses!.
any perspective that is based upon any semblance of morality will judge mao harshly!. the man presided over the deaths of tens of millions of his people in a doomed attempts to realise an impossible dream!. ok well done for your leadership against the japanese (whilst i might add doing your level best to destroy ancient artefacts which show the greatness of your own civilisation), and committing you people to many long years of civil war for a doomed ideaology!.
the cultural revolution and the great leap forward as they are so ridiculously termed saw persecution on a vast scale, the deaths of millions!. all that was for precisley nothing, they failed to bring china into the modern world in any respect, it took free market economics to do that!.
i really cant see how churchill and mao can be reasonably compared!. churchill held some abhorrent views, made some terrible mistakes that cost many lives, but we must remember had to make hard choices in a time of war!.
mao on the other hand, killed millions of his people in peace time, perpetuated and championed a system of oppression, oversaw persecution on a vast scale!. i honestly think that regardless of my position as a westerner, mao is one of the worst dictators in human history, churchill for all his failings was instrumental to the maintenance of the democratic system of government!.
you are quite right that britian has made some morally dubious decisions, including some of those you list, you still cannot convince me that they compare to tens of millions of dead innocent people though!.
at the end of the day, britian is a country that for the most part does the bidding of its people, their collective will drives policy (simplistic i know, but true on a basic level)!. china is a dictatorship, and a brutal one at that!.
also i reject the idea that i have no right to judge chinese leaders for what they do to their own people, a lot of the victims of the holocaust were german, is it wrong therefore to criticise their deaths!?Www@QuestionHome@Com