鸦片战争后,中国面对西方列强的入侵,传统的“驭夷”方略,变得软弱无力。在中国近代的外交实践中,李鸿章将传统的制夷之策与近代国际关系中的实力思想、均势思想结合起来,产生了新形势下的“以夷制夷”外交策略,但最终这一策略还是归于失败,失败尽管屈辱,却也使中国逐渐登上国际舞台,中国外交的现代化由此开始。 After the Opium War, China faced the invasion by the Western powers and became unconstrained by the traditional “control of the enemy” strategy. In the modern practice of China’s diplomacy, Li Hongzhang combined the traditional policy of restraint with power with the idea of ​​power and the balance of power in modern international relations and created a diplomatic strategy of “overcoming the barbarians” under the new situation. However, in the end, this strategy is still Attributed to failure, failure despite humiliation, but also enable China to gradually ascend the international arena, the modernization of China’s diplomacy thus began.