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They wanted to avoid the Western influence in their society. After the Opium Warswith the English it is not astonishing. They had the whole country enslaved to opium in order to be able to do their business. Apart from that the Chinese have always been real paranoiac in this aspect. They refused trading with Genghis Khan on a friendly base and thus provoked him to invade their country.

The Gai-Jin or foreign devil was never welcome in China and it is a fact that most of those who did enter their country brought them very little and mostly tried to exploit them one way or another.

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