Personally, I think that even if there were no foreign forces to launch a war of aggression against China in modern China, China itself would face civil strife. The bourgeois democratic thought began to sprout in China in the late Ming Dynasty, and the transition to a capitalist society was an inevitable trend. Because the foreign bourgeois revolution was basically completed, capital attention thoughts flocked to China in large numbers. If the Qing government had not closed its doors to the outside world, China's capitalist process would have been much earlier.

Therefore, as far as I am concerned, the invasion of external forces is only a driving force to accelerate the process of capitalism in China. It is inevitable to overthrow Manchu feudal rule.