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The industrial revolution provided funding for wealthier European nations to expand their territories. They also searched for places rich with the materials they needed for their businesses and for new market places for their goods.
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A result of President Carter's desire to ease tensions with China was increase trade. President Jimmy Carter started to ease tensions with China by recognizing the communist regime in January 1979, with that trade was increased, along with cultural, commercial “and other unofficial relations”.
