Imperialism In China Essay

After the UN hearing on British reparations for their acts of imperialism and colonialism in China the council has decided on having Great Britain give a public apology for their actions and millions of pounds to support environmental restoration. This seems like a small price to pay for the acts by the British who took over China in order in profit for themselves. But this can be justified better when taking into consideration how China is currently more productive than Britain, and is growing at an exponential rate, the addiction to opium has been greatly curbed and in many ways China is out-developing the original industrial nation. This does explain why the council chose to issue an apology rather than give unnecessary financial payments.
This was also during peak of the British empire, who controlled land all over the world. In China the british saw great opportunity, a huge economy and population to profit from, and so they started to sneak-import opium into China in order to get the population addicted, and when the chinese rejected and attacked opium ships, the British had an excuse to attack. This led the the Opium wars, which the british won, and forced the Chinese to sign unfair treaties that gave the british power over
Some of the most persuasive points were that the British ended some patriarchal practices such as foot-binding, along with giving chinese women more rights. They also brought new european ideas to chinese education, china already had a complex education system but European science and technology had surpassed Chinese and so they brought new ideas and concepts to Chinese education. The British also forced China into participating largely in the global market, at the time only profiting the British but in the long run allowing China to develop into a great world