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China and Japan react as they did to the Europeans' desire to trade with them in order to show that they are self-sufficient. <span>The rise of the West from the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries involved distant explorations and conquests resulting in a heightening and redefining of relationships among world societies. </span>
I believe the answer is: Biases
The person who made such comments usually had a a really strong preference in one economic system, to the point where that person refuse to acknoweldge the weakness in their preferred view and the strength in the opposing view. This bias could easily be held by all sides.
The law of supply and demand