Personally, I think Li Hongzhang's foreign policy is: weak country diplomacy, compromise and perfection, traveling to other countries, and controlling foreign countries with foreign countries.

As a backward diplomat of a big country, it is impossible for Li to conduct diplomacy fairly. The Qing government's political gloom, conservative system, poverty, weakness and poverty were also beyond his own solution. On the one hand, it is necessary to prop up the ancient ship of the Qing Dynasty in the storm, on the other hand, it is necessary to survive among the great powers. Then the only thing Li Can can do is to follow the example of the United Kingdom Law in the Warring States Period and take the interests of various countries in China as bait, so that when competing with each other, it can seek the development of China. It can be said that this is a kind of diplomacy to survive in the cracks, and it is also a kind of helpless diplomacy.

Under the international background at that time, Li could not become a political reformer, but could only make progress in the military and economic fields, which doomed him and his future westernization.

The reason why Li relied too much on the so-called "mediation" of the powers was the embodiment of his helpless diplomacy. The main battle is not necessarily a hero, and the main peace is not necessarily a traitor. Most of the Qing factions are warring factions and basically will not go to the battlefield. Only those who have seen the terrible consequences of war will try their best to avoid it. If Li advocates a war with the great powers, it will only be the poor middle army at the lower level who will die. So, who is his grievance and peace, and he would rather be reviled by ten thousand people?

Of course, Li has many shortcomings, but no one can have a better foreign policy when the national strength is declining at that time, and Li is not afraid of notoriety and is willing to sign humiliating names on one contract after another. I'm afraid no one in the history of China dares to do this. He is a scapegoat for the humiliating history of Qing Dynasty and China, and it is such an old man who, in the last few days of his life, still burns the last flame of his life for China's diplomacy. . . . . .