Virtually no one in the West remembers this and those that do likely don't consider it a major historical event of the period. All Chinese are intimately familiar with the Opium War as the onset of a century of humiliation for their country, and the Chinese are extremely nationalistic.
If the West were to sincerely apologize for the Opium War, would it make the Chinese less nationalistic?
ReplyDeleteOld Chinese proverb: Never too late to smoothed ancient ruffled feathers.