Why was China not Colonized

Unfortunately I lost the document with the sources, so I'll add them in a bit

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[luca_history]

Because it would have cost too much infamy which would have given every other country a cutdown size casus belli on the colonizers

[Vryheid]

It was a small battle with only 50 million deaths

[imnotasiberianspy]

I love the thumbnail image where the U.S. just randomly owns landlocked territory in China.

[bryansiew]

The protocol was seen as the most humiliating treaty in modern Chinese history, but the reparations wasn’t fully paid for various reasons.

[黄辰旭]

Qing was not a competitive government, but it's still a government.

[doodooman]

Quick Answer, China was barely too united that it couldn’t be played like India was, and it was too many people to rule, during the times of civil war, other colonial powers were too preoccupied with internal problems

[blitcut]

0:38 A mistake here. Britain did not gain the right to trade opium as a result of the First Opium War. It wouldn't be until the Second Opium War that Great Qing had to legalize opium.

[DavidArellano-ps]

The new voice is good, other channels do the same and the vibe is completely different but you have made the transition smoothly. Another reason why this channel will succeed.

[blacktigerace]

China is hardly unified back then
Also the regular army of each dynasties can reach up to hundreds thousand, while biggest army can reach up to several millions people strength
One single chinese civil war can reach up to 80 millions casualties, others up to 10-30 millions death toll
In rome era... imagine that
China is what if europe as one single kingdom, but everything is 10x the scaling, europe still nothing even with their flick guns and cannons, but europe hv the best naval strength tho

[maximusandersson]

Another vid from my favourite youtuber this is a good start to my day

[reed]

what the freak is the US doing in Sinkiang

[ShxhzEditx]

I like your mapping style, make more alternate history videos!!

[The_whales]

Speaking of colonization, would it be possible to talk about why Africa was colonized so late?

[Rockefeller.]

The algorithm just delivered me another banger of a channel.
(if youre trying to establish a timeline, try to flash the year number on screen each time you say it)

[itz_serene]

hello :D im from HK, thanks a lot for explaining it :) sometimes I'd like to ask my older relatives (as in 1-2nd generation) how it was, but prob not a good idea, it's very sensitive here. (you forgot to put HK as conquered territory of the japanese during ww2)

[realhawaiio]

Portugal just chilling with Macau for 400+ years

[HistoricalWeapons]

Because 1. Disease is irrelevant compared to the americas 2. Chinese continued to use large quantity of archers and guns that was comparible to the fighting capibilities of 18th century european armies considering that bows had a significant fire rate. By the 19th century when reliable rifles were adopted, the europeans were more interested in profiting from china than colonize 3. Size and population

[herrrobert]

+1 like and comment for the algorithm, from a real person.

[rafanadir]

Lmao what are Rostislav1917 political views ?

[玉初]

Because the great powers needed benefits. China was under the Qing government at that time. The Qing government kept the Han people ignorant to maintain its rule, which made the Qing Dynasty backward. The colonists were afraid that the Qing Dynasty would be overthrown and China would modernize rapidly. At this time, maintaining the rule of the Qing Dynasty and grabbing benefits from the Qing government was the best choice. China was really big. Even if the great powers fought against the Qing Dynasty, you would know that the scale of the war was very small if you looked at the number of people in the war. But such an insignificant war could force the Qing government to give up benefits. At that time, a large number of ignorant Chinese in other regions did not even know what was happening.The Qing government was afraid of being overthrown, so when facing Western invaders they just offered benefits. The Qing government would not really use all its national strength to resist, because this corrupt government just wanted to continue to exist. But civil war was different, it would really cost the Qing government its life, so you know why the casualties in the civil war were so serious. In the late Qing Dynasty, after Taiping Rebellion, the Qing government's army was actually insignificant, and local officials had a large number of armies. If the great powers chose to overthrow the Qing government, new separatist regimes would immediately emerge in other parts of China after receiving the news, and the great powers would also fall into a real civil war in China. The ownership of interests between the great powers was also a big problem