In modern times, due to the backwardness of its strength, China has been invaded by various capitalist powers many times, and has signed several unequal treaties on land cession and reparations, among which two treaties not only record China's humiliating history, but also directly saddled China, which was already relatively backward economically, with huge debts, resulting in a heavy blow to China's national strength. So how much debt does these two treaties put on China's total burden, let's understand and calculate it in detail. 
First, let's calculate the amount of compensation paid in the Treaty of Shimonoseki. In the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese War, it ended in a fiasco of the Qing Dynasty, after which, China and Japan signed the "Treaty of Shimonoseki", an unequal indemnity treaty, and the various capitalist powers really began to plunder China forcefully. According to the relevant records, China should pay reparations to the Japanese army in this treaty300 million taels**, but China really only lost 2300 million? This is not the case. First of all, China spent 30 million taels just to redeem the Liaodong Peninsula occupied by the Japanese army**; This is followed by repayment interest, 2The amount of 300 million yuan will be paid to the Japanese army every year, and the interest will reach more than 10 million taels**; In addition, there is the so-called "Weihai guard fee" of the Japanese army, totaling 1.5 million taels. In addition to these, China also has losses in various aspects such as exchange rate differences, ** value increases, etc., from which it can be seen that China lost more than 2 money to the Japanese army in the Treaty of Shimonoseki300 million taels**, a conservative estimate has also reached 3About 300 million taels**, equivalent to about 90 billion yuan. 
The second is the calculation of the indemnity of the "Xinchou Treaty". In the Treaty of Xincho, China should pay a total of 4500 million taels **, but with the income of the ** at that time, it would take more than ten years to pay off without spending the full load, but the ** not only had to repay, but also maintained its basic operation. Therefore, after consultation with the foreign powers, China finally paid off the reparations in 39 years, and the principal should be repaid in total800 million taels**. However, after the outbreak of World War I, China declared war on Germany and Austria-Hungary and stopped repaying repayments to both countries, and after World War I, China, as the victorious country, succeeded in abolishing the reparations treaty between the two countries. Later, when World War II broke out, due to the increasingly stalemate between China and the Japanese army, in order to enhance China's combat strength, Britain and the United States also stopped demanding reparations from China. Later, after the establishment of the anti-fascist alliance, in order to stabilize the anti-French camp, Britain and the United States decided to return part of the Chinese reparations. Since then, China has paid a total of 6About 600 million taels**, minus the repayment of the United Kingdom and the United States, China actually paid about 5800 million taels**, equivalent to more than 160 billion yuan. To sum up, in the above two unequal treaties signed by China, China paid a total of about 900 million taels**, which is converted to about 250 billion yuan today. This is only incomplete statistics, such as the value of **, the exchange rate difference of the currency and other factors have not been counted. 
In fact, the Treaty of Shimonoseki and the Treaty of Xinchou are only the tip of the iceberg of the total amount of reparations paid by China in modern times, and the unequal treaties that China was forced to sign such as the Treaty of Nanjing and the Treaty of Beijing have brought huge indemnity liabilities to China. In addition to treaties, there are also the plundering of modern China's resources and markets by foreign powers, the damage of human and material resources in wars, and the loss of sovereignty over modern China's territory and territorial waters. The amount of war reparations is essentially only a reference value, and who can really calculate how much China really lost in these treaties.