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As a result of the Boxer Rebellion, China was subjected to even greater humiliation. An indemnity of more than $300 million was levied on the nearly bankrupt nation and the government was forced to allow the permanent quartering of foreign soldiers in Beijing.
By the time the Boxer Rebellion happened, the Qing was already dead. As one Meiji Japanese diplomat said: The Qing Empire should have died with the Taiping Rebellion, as per the natural cycle of dynastic changes and shifting of the mandate of heaven, but thanks to foreign intervention, the Qing Empire existed as a zombie state for another half century and delaying the inevitable modernization of China.