What was the purpose of the British in waging the tooth war

Occupy the Chinese market, try to control China's economic lifeline, open the closed door to China, and shake this great power that has dominated the East for thousands of years. Although the opium flowing into China is very large, it does not constitute dumping, because its ** is not reduced because of the surge in quantity, but the same as ****, the reason is that Britain has to levy a very heavy tax on the profits from overseas sales of opium, and a large part of the British tax is obtained from the sale of opium, and China's Qing ** also strongly opposed the inflow of opium, so opium merchants were levied very heavy tariffs, so the opium did not fall but rose, and even smuggled opium into China. In order to make greater profits on opium, the opium dealers and the British had to forcefully open the door to China and use the topic to play a reactionary opium war.

Purpose: British colonialism plundered cheap industrial raw materials from developing countries in order to open up colonial markets.

Capitalist economic expansion requires the support of the market. Open the Chinese market! Reverse the ** deficit between China and the UK!

To defend its opium with violence, to open the door to the Chinese market by force, to turn China into his colony (raw material and commodity market).

Forced the Qing Dynasty to develop treaty ports.

Because Britain spends a lot of money to buy tea and other items from China every year, and the Chinese people do not like the items that Britain buys to China, and there are very few people who buy things, so Britain sells opium to China in order to make money. However, the smoke of gunfire in Humen offended the interests of imperialism, so the Opium War was launched.

Open up the colonial market, realize capitalist expansion, reverse the Anglo-Chinese deficit, and meet the profits of capital.

After the 20th century; Anglo-Russian Crimean War, Anglo-Dutch Boer War, Eight-Nation Alliance, World War I, World War II, Anglo-Argentine War, Gulf War, Invasion of Libya.

1. Gulf War, January 17, 1991 On February 28, the US-led multinational coalition waged a local war against Iraq under the authorization of the United Nations Security Council to restore the territorial integrity of Kuwait.

2. The oil produced in the Gulf region is mainly for export. A considerable part of the oil imported by the United States, Western Europe, and Japan comes from the Gulf region. According to U.S. Energy Intelligence statistics, in the first quarter of 1990, the U.S. net daily oil imports were 10,000 barrels, of which 10,000 barrels came from the Gulf region, accounting for; Western Europe imports 10,000 barrels of oil from Japan, of which 10,000 barrels are imported from the Gulf region, accounting for; Japan imported 5.48 million barrels of oil per day, of which 3.54 million barrels were imported from the Gulf region.

Oil is the "blood" of today's world economic development, and at the same time it is the driving force of the modern military. If Iraq were to annex Kuwait and then occupy Saudi Arabia, it would be able to control more than half of the world's oil resources, which would be like choking the throats of the major industrial countries of the West. Saddam Hussein, using the oil in his hands, could manipulate the economic development of the Western industrial countries and could then dictate to them.

This is absolutely intolerable to the United States and some other major industrial countries.

In addition, Kuwait is one of the few rich countries in the world, with more than $100 billion in assets abroad and tens of billions of dollars in stakes in important Western industries. If these assets are siphoned off by Iraq, it will also cause huge losses to the Western economy.

3. Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait violated the norms of international law and was universally condemned by the international community. As far as a part of the world is concerned, this is a product of the imbalance in the balance of power in the Middle East, and it is also the result of Iraq's pursuit of regional hegemony. However, on a global scale, this incident constitutes an impact on the strategic interests of the countries concerned.

First, it poses a challenge to the global strategy of the United States to seek a new hegemonic position in the process of establishing a new world order. Second, it poses a threat to the economic interests of Western developed countries in the form of thirst for oil resources in the Middle East. Third, it has added an element of instability to the already tense situation in the Middle East, causing strong uneasiness and opposition from countries in the region. It was these fierce clashes of political and economic interests, which could not be resolved by political means, that led to the outbreak of war.

The goal is to seize the oil resources of the Gulf region! Control of world oil prices....But because there is no legitimate reason to obtain it, let's take Saddam Hussein.

100% of wars are waged for the purpose of grabbing money. Grabbing land and resources is also a kind of grabbing money.

The British launched the Opium War under the pretext of protecting ** freedom.

In June 1840, the British invasion fleet blockaded the Pearl River and the waters of Guangdong, and the Opium War officially broke out. The reason why the Opium War became the starting point of China's modern history is mainly reflected in the fact that the Opium War led to the gradual transformation of Chinese society into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and the Chinese people gradually began an anti-imperialist and anti-feudal bourgeois-democratic revolution. After the Opium War, with the invasion of foreign capital, imperialism, two fundamental changes took place in Chinese society:

First, independent China gradually turned into a semi-colonial China; (Although modern China has actually lost its status as an independent country with complete sovereignty, it still maintains the name of an independent country and a certain degree of sovereignty.) Second, feudal China gradually became semi-feudal China. China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal society is a deformed social form subordinate to the capitalist world system that has gradually taken shape in China since modern times under the conditions of the invasion of foreign capitalist forces and their integration with Chinese feudal forces.

In 1852, a Briton in China reported that Chinese raw silk shipped to London by British merchants was packed in "useless" Manchester fine cotton. Prior to this, it was mainly homespun cloth made in China that was used for packaging. This change in packaging cloth reflected the fact that British cotton cloth was unsalable in China at that time.

On June 26, 1862, Shanghai Xinbao published an advertisement for a firm selling "foreign groceries": new assorted biscuits, sour fruits, vinegar, Luzon tobacco, brandy, small mirrors, oriental bamboo baskets, etc. This mainly reflects the changes in material lifestyles.

Holding the Chinese customs is one of the important means for foreign invaders to control Chinese politics, and the Briton Hurd held the power of the Chinese customs for more than 40 years from 1863 to 1908 when he returned to China.

Answer C: This question mainly tests the understanding of the background of the Opium War. The background of the Opium War is the focus of study, but it is not very difficult, as long as we can understand that from the first half to the late 19th century, the main purpose of the foreign aggression and expansion of the Western powers was to plunder raw materials and dump goods, we can easily choose the answer. Option A was the pretext for Britain to start the Opium War, which was the direct cause; Option B is not its primary purpose. Reference.

The main purpose is to open up the Chinese market.

Open up the Chinese market and develop capitalism.

Plundering raw materials, dumping goods, opening up the Chinese market, said in the textbook.

Want to get what he wants.

The purpose of this war was to allow China to open its treaty ports, and judging from the content of the Treaty of Nanjing, it was indeed opened.