Hello is honored to answer your question: since the Sino-Japanese War in 1894 after China's defeat in the Sino-Japanese War, the Western powers salivated over this piece of fat meat in China, the end of the 19th century, the Western powers set off a fervor to divide China. And with the deepening of war reparations, the people were overwhelmed, finally gave rise to the Boxer Rebellion, the Qing government internal and external problems, unable to resist, so the Western powers more unrestrained, taking advantage of the fire, trying to swallow China.