They have a road from middle east to africa and they would use Merchant ship routes.
Many great European powers had been exploiting China's weak economic system to enforce their own trade regulations for years. The United States simply wanted to join the fray, so the Open Door notes were sent to the European powers basically stating, "Hey, you guys can't own all of China, make sure that all countries get to trade equally with them."
Just as a side note, the Open Door policy with China was extremely hypocritical for the United States, as the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 basically stated that none of the European powers could interfere with the Western Hemisphere... While no one was allowed to touch the Americas, the United States was apparently allowed to mess with the rest of the world.
US Troops were killed during a conflict.
In the year 1993, the Somalian capital of Mogadishu was raided by American troops.
President Bush had sent the United States forces to go on a mission to provide food to the people of Somalia who were suffering from the civil war.
Thousands of Somalia civilians were starving so the President Bush sent the American on a humanitarian mission.
During a battle two United Nations soldiers and American 18 Americans lost their lives.
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