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I don't want to simply redo Tony Jones' excellent Monarchy World timeline, but I'm trying to figure out how the Chinese could have banned the opium trade while appeasing the British by importing some other good.

What if someone in the bureaucracy actually notices that some of the technology the foreigners had was actually pretty good, and started importing steam engines instead? How could the Chinese cultural mindset at the time even have considered that the Europeans had something worth acquiring at the time.
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