Dutch-Chinese Conflicts

During the 1600s, the Dutch East Indian Company tried to intimidate Ming China into trading with them and opening a port in Fuijian. The Dutch foolishly regard Ming China as "just another one of the weak Asian kingdoms" that they easily intimidated into submission. Unknown to the Dutch, the Ming Chinese were a proud culture that regarded the Europeans as barbarians as the Europeans regarded them. Ming China was not willing to submit themselves to a bunch of "lowly barbarians" without a fight. When the Dutch sent raids against the Chinese, the Chinese simply defeated the raids and went on the offensive against the Dutch. Chinese forces captured Penghu from the Dutch, and the Dutch (with Chinese Pirate allies) were crushed in a navel battle in Liaoluo Bay. The finishing blow in the Sino-Dutch War was when a Ming force under Koxinga besieged Formosa under Dutch control. The siege was lost for the Dutch when several of the Aborigines defected to Ming forces. After the defeat of the Dutch in Formosa, several of the head-hunting Aborigines decapitated several of the Dutch men, and the Dutch women were sold as sex slaves to Chinese troops. Formosa was renamed by the Chinese to Taiwan. Later Dutch attempts to campaign against the Ming was an alliance with the rival Qing dynasty. However, the Qing suffered numerous defeats and the Dutch were too weak to fight on. So the 1st confrontations between major powers in East and the West ended in Eastern victory.