HISTORY
IMPERIALISM ASIA
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Through military bases placed throughout China
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Through bribery
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Through secret alliances
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Through the treaty system
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Detailed explanation-1: -Americans were looking for new markets to buy goods, as the British refused to deal with Americans. And the Chinese preferred to work with Americans, who bought Chinese goods. The Europeans only wanted to sell them things. By the middle of the 19th century, though, the relationship had grown.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Treaty of Wangxia (Wang-hsia) was the first formal treaty signed between the United States and China in 1844. It served as an American counterpart to the Anglo-Chinese Treaty of Nanjing that ended the First Opium War in 1842.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Treaty of Nanjing in 1842 underscored China’s defeat in the First Opium War and forced China to open dozens of cities to Western traders (so-called treaty ports), dramatically ending centuries during which China developed in relative isolation from the West.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Treaty of Nanjing Give Great Britain the city of Hong Kong. Open five ports where the British could both trade and live. Place a very low tariff on all British goods.