How did that work out for the Qing Dynasty?
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solarz
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The Qing dynasty was nearly bankrupt after the Opium War. The Beiyang fleet was literally starved of funds because Cixi thought they were too expensive and not loyal enough (to her).
They went bankrupt after the Opium War because their MILITARY WAS WEAK, TECHNOLOGICALLY Backwards, Doctrinally behind with the European way of doing war, especially with the modern navies of Europe, chief among them, the might of the British fleet. So all the Qing Dynasty being the wealthiest of all all the empires in the planet meant Jack didly squat since it didn't have the power to leverage and use that wealth, not even to protect her own backyard.
solarz
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The Qing dynasty had believed themselves to be strong enough to defeat the British. That they were wrong doesn't mean they deliberately neglected their military. On the contrary, the first Opium War happened only 40 years after the reign of Qianlong, during which the Qing dynasty was militarily the supreme regional power.
The damage that opium inflicted on the Chinese economy and society cannot be overstated. By the time Lin Zexu intervened, Qing society was already in a crisis. Its defeat against the British further devastated its economy, precipitating the even more disastrous Taiping rebellion.
There is no simple answer to the dilemma of security vs economy, both are intimately tied to one another. Development of one requires the development of the other. Both the late Qing dynasty and the ROC tried desperately to strengthen both their military and their economy, but both ultimately failed. It was only when the CPC unleashed the power of the Chinese peasantry and built a truly modern nation in the PRC that the situation was finally reversed.
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