In China,the Tang (618 - 907 A.D.) and the Song Dynasties based their bureaucracies on Confucian ideals (960 - 1279 A.D.) as a way of strengthening ethics thus ruling out corruption in civil service. In order to achieve this, every candidate aspiring to a job position in the government had to pass difficult tests on Confucianism.
D. Great Britain.
Source: My World History Textbook
"Great Britain, which long opposed construction of the canal for fear that it might fall into enemy hands, benefited more than any other nation... Instead of making Egypt powerful and independent, the Suez Canal provided the excuse for a British invasion and occupation of that country."
Definition: Traditionally, the term "international conflict" referred to conflicts between different nation-states and conflicts between people and organizations in different nation-states.
He launched Operation Linebacker. He bombed Hanoi and Haiphong that led to the
destruction of the North’s economic and industrial centers. He continued the bombings and also threatened to withdraw U.S. and end the agreement. Nixon halted the bombings and signed the
Paris Peace Accord that ended U.S. involvement in the area.