1. Economies of Japan and China:19th-20th Centuries
Japanese government came out of isolation because in 1853 Matthew Perry came from the United States to insist Japan trade with them and open up their markets, Japan decided to trade. ... China refused to open up their markets despite pressure from the heightened military superiority of the West. Their political corruption made them an easy target for the West, and the West ended up seizing their opportunity by taking control of China. ... While their leadership was secular and bureaucratic and they had no worldly commitments, the western world was targeting china while they were in a vulnerab...
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