World: The rise of Germany, competing with Britain for colonies, has been in conflict with France in Europe, and the United States, as the country with the largest steel production and the second economic aggregate at that time, is also actively expanding. After the Spanish-American War, Cuba and the Philippines were acquired, and they embarked on the expansion of Zhang Zhilu.
China:
1, the British and French allied forces entered Beijing to sign the Beijing Treaty, and the Yuanmingyuan was destroyed.
2. The Foreign Affairs Office of the Prime Minister was established.
3. Frontier crisis: Russia invaded the northeast of China and signed an unfair treaty. The Qing government was weak and incompetent.
4. The Westernization Movement has begun. The crisis of Qing government's rule
5. Late Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement. Ethnic contradictions and class contradictions have intensified unprecedentedly. Peasant riots broke out one after another.
/kloc-In the 1970s and 1980s, the great powers invaded China's neighboring countries and China's border areas, which plunged China into a "border crisis". Britain invaded Tibet from India and Yunnan from Myanmar. France invaded Guangxi from Vietnam. Russia invaded Xinjiang from Central Asia. The Japanese also annexed Ryukyu and occupied Taiwan Province Province. An important purpose of the great powers invading the neighboring countries of China and occupying the border areas of China is to occupy a favorable position in the struggle to further invade or carve up China.