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In China, the treaty is widely regarded as an imperialist one, which paved the way for the subjugation of China to Western imperialism. The treaty consolidated the "opening" of China to foreign trade in the wake of the First Opium War and allowed Britons to reside in parts of China, which had not been opened to foreigners before.
Accounting for the Fall of Silver: Hedging Currency Risk in Long-Distance Trade with Asia, 1870-1913 (Oxford University Press, 2020) ISBN 0198865023; Stein, Stanley J., and Barbara H. Stein. Silver, trade, and war: Spain and America in the making of early modern Europe (JHU Press, 2000). excerpt; TePaske, John J. A new world of gold and silver ...
The First Opium War broke out in 1839 between China and Britain and was fought over trading rights (including the right of free trade) and Britain's diplomatic status among Chinese officials. In the eighteenth century, China enjoyed a trade surplus with Europe, trading porcelain, silk, and tea in exchange for silver.
The British went to war because of Chinese military threats to defenceless British civilians, including women and children; because China refused to negotiate on terms of diplomatic equality and because China refused to open more ports than Guangzhou to trade, not just with Britain but with everybody.
The Manila Galleon was a fleet of Spanish trading ships annually sent across the Pacific between Spanish possessions in Mexico and the Philippines from 1565 - 1815 to trade with China. American silver was traded for Chinese silk and other goods, with some estimates saying that half of the silver of the Americas ended up in Ming China.
El Cronista de China: Juan González de Mendoza, entre la misión, el imperio y la historia. Edicions Universitat Barcelona. ISBN 9788491680376. Sola, Emilio (1999). Historia de un desencuentro. España y Japón, 1580-1619. Archivo de la Frontera. ISBN 9788469058596. Thomas, Hugh (2015). World Without End: Spain, Philip II, and the First Global ...
The superiority of Western militaries and military technology like steamboats and Congreve rockets forced China to open trade with the West on Western terms. [2] The Second Opium War also known as the Arrow War, in 1856-60 saw a joint Anglo-French military mission including Great Britain and the French Empire win an easy victory.
Spain hosted Expo 2008, with China being a participant, and China hosted Expo 2010 in which Spain had a pavilion. As a consequence, China has become Spain's sixth-largest trading partner. [1] In 2018, during Xi Jinping's state visit to Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez refused to sign a memorandum of understanding on the Belt and Road ...