The trading situation between Great Britain and China in the early part of the 18th century continued to expand, yet the British were not satisfied and wanted to possess the ability to trade at any Chinese port and with any entity it wished. In 1793, the first formal diplomatic mission arrived in China under the leadership of Lord Macartney, a man often described as having a powerful influence on trade in India and with a vast knowledge of Eastern sensibilities. Macartney's main objective was to devise a treaty for a fair exchange of diplomatic representatives and the opening of all Chinese ports to British shipping while creating a set of tariff duties which were to be vigorously enforced in every Chinese port.
Unfortunately, Macartney's mission to China did not turn out as he had expected, for he was rebuffed by the emperor. In 1816, another attempt to establish formal trading relations with China was made by Lord Amherst, and like its predesessor, it too failed miserably. This, in effect, officially ended all British governmental efforts to create trade relations with China, but this did not deter other individuals, despite the fact that the Chinese government had humiliated Britain's trading ambassadors and kept to its unrelenting refusal to bow down to British imperialism.
From the British standpoint, something had to be done to alter this situation. After all, "Did China possess the right to shut itself off from the world and was its riches exclusively owned and controlled by the Chinese or were they placed on earth to be shared by all who were willing to pay for obtaining them?" (Mungello, 290). This question inexorably leads to what became one of the most foul and dishonest practices ever conceived in the mind of the West, namely, the trade in opium. To begin with, in the late 18th century, the Chinese viewed...
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