I first thought to name this article "the scourge of colonialism", but only one who has not thought fully or truly on the actual scourge of the Opium Wars, and their legacy, and the efforts sturdily "required" to ameliorate them once the dragon had raised its head throughout,
On the issue of the treaties, I would expect no less from old Qing - even the ageing and collapsing older Qing - to approve of the treaties that so much bore the badge of colonial subjugation. Whether they were formally recognised, I would hold no jaw to drop were that the case, although if such a sentiment prevailed (and in my best guess it did not) the subsequent friendly cooperative readressment
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