The answer would be opium (a drug) to trade for tea because the British didn’t want to pay silver for it and had lead to the opium wars which China had lost.
He was sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. The court told King he could not protest in Birmingham
For the great majority of the Chinese people, for whom social reforms were the main concern, the nationalist leaders concentrated on political and international issues, such as relations with the Western powers and Japan, and failed to implement most of the domestic programs they proposed, most especially land reform. Also, China's leaders bickered and plotted but did little. Lastly, Sun gave lip service to the Nationalist Party's need to deal with the peasant problem.
Conservative--The elderly population typically sides with the conservative political side.
As people age, they tend to become more conservative. This is particularly true for social issues as they become more liberal with each generation, tradition keeps older generation holding onto what becomes conservative ideology. Economically and politically it depends on how much they rely on government programs likes Medicare, Social Security, and welfare assistance.