Comments by "Fox" (@tomlxyz) on "First Opium War - Trade Deficits and the Macartney Embassy - Extra History - Part 1" video.

  1. In GB merchants and such had become much more powerful while in china at the point the state and bureaucracy was still the center point. They might not agree with a foreigner asking but they wouldn't flip out in GB. China also wasn't big on trade because they already had all they wanted within
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