Chapter 31 Three "equivalent exchange"?Sino-US Mongha Treaty

As an emerging industrial and commercial country on the other side of the ocean, the United States is unusually sensitive to changes in the world market.When warships of the British Empire appeared in the China Sea, the businessmen and statesmen of the United States immediately realized that there was a profitable opportunity in the East that should not be passed up. Even during the war, the United States sent Commander Lawrence Kearny to lead the East India Fleet to China, with two tasks: one was to protect the overseas Chinese during the war, and the other was to stop the smuggling of opium by American ships. After Garni arrived in Guangzhou in April 1842, he did not carry out these two tasks. Instead, when he learned that the war was over and the Treaty of Nanjing was signed, he postponed his return and sent a letter to Qi, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.