Because Canada is so much smaller than US.
China has a long coast so it can trade with ship coming in.
Opium, England was paying out too much of its gold reserves to china for it's tea so to overcome this the clipper ships that picked up the tea from china were filed up with opium to trade for the tea instead of gold. Eventually when china became aware of the damage this was doing to its people and economy they tried to stop this practice leading to the opium wars. Which item contributed most to England's trade deficit with China? Tea
It was used for trade,
So China can trade and share goods with the Middle East, Middle west, and Europe
china subtitled to a reniassaince fair day and was nominated as a civilization, according to brazilians as i read on yahoo but, actually china was so fine in resources such as silk it grew to a civilization as people came to trade or selll people then stayed.
The crusades were responsible for the loss of trade from China through the middle east. So people wanted their spices and silks and were willing to try going west to get to China.
Most people who moved to China during the Age of Imperialism (especially from Europe, the USA, and Japan) did so in order to trade goods with the Qing Empire, not always with that empire's consent.
Because they have so many people who are willing to work so cheaply and so many natural resources.
China fell under the complete control of foreign countries. Novanet - foreign countries were given total control over trade in China
Foreign countries were given total control over trade in China. <---novaNET!!
They do not want to spend so much money that they think is a waste, but sometimes this is bad common sense that affects people. Ideally, china people just want money because they think they are so poor when they can afford stuff. In fact, china people make US such a bad place because of their nuisance and annoying behavior.