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.
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If the West were to sincerely apologize for the Opium War, would it make the Chinese less nationalistic?
Old Chinese proverb: Never too late to smoothed ancient ruffled feathers.
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