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With a PoD in the 1830's, how can the Qing Dynasty avoid the crisis that was their defeat in the First Opium War?* The war itself can be avoided, delayed, or even begin as OTL, so long as it does not end in a humiliating defeat for the Qing Dynasty.

Then, given these ATL events, how much stronger is the Qing Dynasty, and how is Chinese history thus affected? To start with, I think it stands a very good chance of butterflying away the Tiaping Rebellion...

*note, any later Opium Wars become, by definition, TTL's "First Opium War"...
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