Zewei's article discusses the collision and integration of China's Confucianism philosophy in the 19th Century with the Western international law. It focuses on how the equal international relationship state could not blend with the Chinese view. Morality and ethics play a huge role in personal and state level of Confucianism, and the philosophy does not be strong in a sense when it comes to the international relation. When the First Opium War started because China confiscated and destroyed the tons of opium from the British for being illegally exported, it did not turn out well from China making them lose warship, people, and their economy. The result of the First Opium War made China made a forced treaty with the British to gain more ports
