Visited the Old Summer Palace today.
There is not much of a palace left. What remains are ruins, a reminder of China’s century of humiliation and what happened when the country was too weak to defend itself. Invaded, looted, destroyed, and burned.
A reminder to all Chinese, and really to any country out there who is still struggling: this is what being weak means. If you are weak, sooner or later, someone will beat you down one way or another.