China i think is your answer
Britain didn't have enough settlements to enforce the claim.
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The Shang Dynasty ended in about 1050 BCE, when conquerors from the state of Zhou invaded the capital and successfully toppled the Shang Dynasty. The Zhou conquerors claimed to overthrow the Shang Dynasty for moral reasons. They said that the Shang king was evil and that heaven no longer wanted him to rule.
These states run huge expenditures in their efforts to rebuild. This involved large government projects that yielded little return value.