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Helena Rindone Dr. Ng Quin Government 222.01 29 October 2007 Midterm There were several ways in which the Asian and Western systems of international relations clashed in the 19th century. The main focus of the Western international relations was expansion through trade. However Asian relations made it very clear that they had not "the slightest need of [your] country's manufactures" (Cohen 246). One of the problems came from the illegal importation of opium into China. Western countries wanted to trade with Asia but the westerners had little to offer them. They began trading opium for Asian goods but the Asians were unaware of the addicting negative side-effects. The drug was banned but the Westerners continued to trade it. The roots of the conflict however were because of the two fundamentally different concepts of international relations and trade. In the face of Western pressure to open China to trade, the Qing dynasty did not stray from...

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