What if the Opium Wars had gone differently?

Britain forces China to open its ports at gunpoint, beginning a century of foreign concessions.

If it had gone differently: China is never prised open by force; it meets the industrial world on its own terms, or stays closed to it.

1. 1868The Meiji Restoration, Japan stays closed and agrarian; the idea that a non-Western state can industrialise fast has no example.
2. 1884The Scramble for Africa, Africa is not carved up at a table in Europe; its 20th century, and much of the world's, takes a very different shape.