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Uh, trading? Immigrants? WAR?
There are a lot of reasons why america should concern itself with wath China is doing, like...
The Recycling Shortage (thingy) - China put stricter guidelines for other country's waste that they deposit to China.
Immigrants - Wonder why (maybe all) major cities has a China Town? Yeah, immigrants.
More people = Economy goes up
More tourists = Cash
War - Maybe not today, but in the past, people were concerned if China was gonna start a World War.
It was important because it enabled countries to make steel cheaply and this was then used to make better tools and better machinery and it enabled the industry to prosper. This forced them to become imperialistic in order to get more resources to increase the scope of the revolution even more.
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