At that time, the international community adopted a neutral attitude towards the early stage of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement. Later, because Hong Xiuquan refused to recognize unequal treaties and betray national sovereignty, the powers turned to support the Qing government. At that time, the British government also sent an envoy to talk with Hong Xiuquan and offered to help the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom if he recognized Britain's interests in China, but Hong refused. It is also necessary to make it clear that the great powers at that time were in the stage of free capitalism and entered the stage of imperialism after the Meiji Restoration in Japan, so there was no such thing as anti-imperialism in theory at that time.