I don't think this is a useful argument simply because China and America are so massively different in culture, history, geography, language and demographics th

I don't think this is a useful argument simply because China and America are so massively different in culture, history, geography, language and demographics that there's no way you can say with any certainty that the opium wars caused any particular change. China has a long history with isolationism or distrust of foreign powers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haijin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haijin