if it fought a single European power 1 on 1. My history is a little bit cloudy but I thought several European Country including Japan and the US ganged up on China to force it to open it's borders and sign those unequal treaties. My question is, if China had only one of those countries to deal with, take you pic, COULD it have been able to holds it's own?
2007-02-19 15:05:01 · 5 answers · asked by choyryu 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Dave, unfortunately what you say is true and definitely contributed to the eventual outcome.
2007-02-19 15:11:23 · update #1
Too much corruption in the Chinese government...
2007-02-19 15:08:25 · answer #1 · answered by Dave ! 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Also, the War on Cancer, started under President Nixon and cancer rates are as high or higher than ever. The problem is that we are using the wrong metaphor- namely "war". In government language, this means that we will spend billions of our tax dollars using the same failed approach as before. No great innovations or solutions have ever come out of these "war" programs. Instead, we have large bureaucracies and government contractors feeding off tax money without any results. In turn, these government contractors keep contributing to politicians' campaigns to keep the money coming. They are rightly worried that if the problem was actually solved, they wouldn't get any more money, so it is actually against their interests to solve the problem. The more they can create a crisis mindset among the population, the more money they can get because people think that spending more money on the problem will solve it. In dealing with government, you get rewarded for failure, not for success. If there is a problem in the schools, the answer is more money for the schools, not less money as there would be in the private sector. Both dems and repubs engage in this "war" mentality. It is part of our system. So, we waste billions of dollars and achieve nothing and can't even find a way out of this situation. The military-industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us about has taken over our government in the form of various "wars" on drugs, poverty, terrorism, cancer, etc. Too many people are making too much money not solving these problems and feeding on our tax dollars. We are just too naive to see it. Thank you for bringing up this issue.
2016-03-29 03:41:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
China cannot ever win one navy ship against one Japaneses ship
it still best to have one war instead of six wars in a row
the real problem is internally Chinese are plotting against each other to achieved personal gains during that period
maybe somethings good did come out from the wars like the returned of Hong Kong and Macau by the foreigner army
with full development of the cities
2007-02-19 15:20:52 · answer #3 · answered by kimht 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The US didn't have anything to do with any of the Opium wars. I don't even think that Japan was involved. That was ~1830's, before Perry went to Japan. Why don't you look on wikipedia and get your chronology straight.
2007-02-19 15:19:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, China still would have lost because China chose the path of peace. It lost its innocence and today China is growing fast to be the world's greatest superpower. Mess with China and you will get dealt with.
2007-02-19 15:17:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋