Contemporary political cartoon showing the hypocrisy of Imperialist powers during the Boxer Rebellion
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Explanation: The Boxer Rebellion in China was an uprising against the increasing European domination of the stagnant Qing Dynasty. Once the rebellion began - tacitly supported by the Qing Empress - it butchered a great number of innocent people, Europeans and Chinese alike, including some 30,000 Chinese Christians.
When the colonizing powers responded, they proved themselves to be no better, slaughtering and looting their way through the ancient capital of Beijing after defeating the Boxer forces.
This would be a key event in the downfall of the Qing Dynasty, having proven itself decidedly incompetent to both European interests and native Chinese interests, and siding with neither - a typical response from a calcified structure of aristocratic elites seeking to maintain their own position at the cost of everything else, but unsustainable in times of crisis.
Explanation: The Boxer Rebellion in China was an uprising against the increasing European domination of the stagnant Qing Dynasty. Once the rebellion began - tacitly supported by the Qing Empress - it butchered a great number of innocent people, Europeans and Chinese alike, including some 30,000 Chinese Christians.
When the colonizing powers responded, they proved themselves to be no better, slaughtering and looting their way through the ancient capital of Beijing after defeating the Boxer forces.
This would be a key event in the downfall of the Qing Dynasty, having proven itself decidedly incompetent to both European interests and native Chinese interests, and siding with neither - a typical response from a calcified structure of aristocratic elites seeking to maintain their own position at the cost of everything else, but unsustainable in times of crisis.