I think it would be China because it's the most developed country in Asia and is a very big impact on international trade.
The Spaniards wanted the land the french wanted the gold
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It changes the direction of the sun and wherever the sun is facing will have higher temperature and will be in daylight.
The Cold War Containment policy was a complete bust because we pour money into failing countries so they there economy was strong enough to where they wouldn't have radical thoughts of communism this was referred to as the Truman doctrine and then the Eisenhower doctrine that funded the middle east. Then we went into the police action "war" in Korea so that the domino effect wouldn't allow other nations to fall to communism