AROUND four centuries ago, British capital started flowing into India, creating theEast India Company, and laying the foundations of the empire.
大约四个世纪之前,英国便开始向印度注入资本,创建了东印度公司,为大英帝国奠定了在印度的基石。
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China that had rich resources and importance of strategy was a poor and weak empire, and the western powers invaded chiefly China in East Asia, so their pressure on Japan had lessened.