im guessing you rion mr poseys class?
porcelain, exotic tea, and silk.
selling opium
It takes 8 days, 3 hours, 20 minutes to travel from Shanghai, China to Vancouver British Columbia by ship. The distance is 5,620 miles.
The situation will be replicated as once Japanese goods overflooded the U.S. market. With China's huge production base and aggressive export marketing strategy, time will come when balance of trade between the two countries will be in favor of China and domestic U.S. manufacturers will cry for protectionism to guard against chinese goods and save domestic industries.
The renminbi is the official currency of the People's Republic of China.It is more commonly known outside China as the Yuan. (Similar to British currency being known as Sterling and the Pound)The International currency code is CNY
porcelain, exotic tea, and silk.
porcelain, exotic tea, and silk.
It means that the British were importing more goods from China than they were exporting goods to China.
the negative trade balance between Britain and China
Opium
he negative trade balance between Britain and china
Trade. Export of opium to China (grown in British India) had been a very profitable business for the British. When the Chinese Government tried to put a stop to it, Britain started the war to force China to re-open its market for this British export product.
They don't. Britain already had an empire, and its future growth wouldn't be in China. The first war was fought to prevent an adverse merchandise trade balance by forcing China to admit British-supplied drugs. The second was a pure act of British loutishness without even the deplorable economic motivation of the first. Britain won both but took only Hong Kong and an unjust but modest indemnity. Trade was the prize, not empire.
China, as a country, was never ruled by the British. Part of present day China were once British colonies (Hong Kong).
China Gave up control of Hong Kong to the British.
The British wanted to trade opium for China's resources.
China never joined the British Empire. However, two small parts of China were part of the British Empire. Weihaiwei-1898-1930 Hong Kong-1841-1997