Multiview On The British Foreign Policy On China

After the outbreak of Taiping heavenly kingdom, the government of Great Britain planed to interfere with the Chinese civil war in order to enlarge the rights and interests in China and respond to the beg of the Qing gorvemment. England decided to keep neutral in the civil war in China as a result of the restriction of her strategies and outward policy and principles of their implumentaion and the restriction of two kinds of mental state and impression expects in the both parties in Chinse civil war. To some extent, Enlish officers in China carried out neutral policy. At the same time, the masses of the Enlish people in China took half-hearted attitude, and England adopted to this two kinds of entirely different attitude. In order to get the support of Great Britain, the Qing government and Taiping heavenly kingdom both drew over English government positively. When the government of Great Britain deaerted the neutral policy and was going to interfere in civil war in China, the English people who advocated democracy tried their best to speak in defence of the justice of Taiping heavenly kingdom.