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It's well known that the Opium Wars occurred in a large way because opium was the only good the British could sell to get enough speccie to buy Chinese goods they wanted. It seems to me it is extremely implausible there was nothing else at all the Chinese would be interested in, and I put down the situation more to lack of imagination by British merchants.

So, what else could some entrepreneurial Brit come up with that the Chinese would want in large amounts during the early 1800s?
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