Where did the Western countries prove to be stronger than China?

Watching the rise of China today, it’s hard to believe that the country was in the balance of total collapse 100 years ago. The continuous series of lost wars, unequal treaties and concessions to “overseas barbarians”, which stretched from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries, firmly entered the Chinese consciousness under the name of the “century of humiliation.” As the dream of building a bright communist future resonates less and less among ordinary Chinese, the main unifying idea for them is the desire to prevent a repetition of the events of the tragic era for China. Andrey Kovalev – about how Western countries finished off the Qing empire. Centuries-old dominant.