What is the reason for Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China?

Cause: Seeing the decline of Qing Dynasty, many countries tried to carve up China and expand their interests in China. The anti-imperialist struggle of the Boxer Rebellion caused imperialist panic and needed to be suppressed by the army.

1894 1894 The Qing Dynasty was defeated in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, and the treaty of shimonoseki was signed with Japan. The international status of the Qing Empire plummeted. Western powers began to covet the fat of the Qing Empire. /kloc-at the end of 0/9, the western powers set off an upsurge of carving up the Qing empire. With the deepening of the national crisis, China people's struggle against imperialism is growing day by day.

At the same time, with the deepening of war reparations, the people were overwhelmed and eventually led to the Boxer Rebellion. The Qing government was at home and abroad, unable to resist. So the western powers were even more presumptuous and plundered the Qing empire in an attempt to swallow it up in one gulp.

The influence of Eight-Nation Alliance s war of aggression against China;

The Qing government paid huge reparations and lost the sovereignty of many countries. During the chaos in North China, the governors of southeast provinces declared themselves neutral. From then on, the authority of the central government in Qing Dynasty was low, and the Han dignitaries rose. Objectively speaking, the Eight-Nation Alliance incident accelerated the demise of the Qing Dynasty. Later, the United States reduced its compensation to the Qing government by about 65438+200 million silver.

The refund is mainly used for China to send overseas students to the United States at public expense, and Tsinghua University was established under this background. The two refunds in the United States have a great influence in the world.

The signing of the "Xin Chou Treaty" not only brought a heavy burden to the people of China, but also damaged national sovereignty. Since then, the Qing government has completely become a tool for imperialism to rule China.

Eight-Nation Alliance's military action ended with the signing of the "Xin Chou Treaty" between the Qing government and eleven countries. It stipulated that the Qing government should pay 450 million taels of silver within 39 years (this huge compensation became worse after treaty of shimonoseki paid 200 million taels of silver to Japan).

At this time, China was in constant war, with internal and external troubles. The national treasury is empty and the gross national product is very low. In order to pay off 450 million war reparations, it had to be repaid in installments, and it also borrowed money from banks in various countries to pay reparations. This is the so-called boxer indemnity.

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