Why did the united states and europe wanted to open asia up to international trade? what made asia an ideal place for trade?

1) Asia has a LOT of people which meant more money for them if they could open up trading ports and such.

2) Asia had things like gunpowder, silk, spices, basically what was considered rare goods at the time.

(And a secret 3d reason, Asia was pretty far ahead in most sciences and mathematical studies and if you could sneak a trader in there to get some of that knowledge then all the better)

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answer: c  

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