pay for the wars with the French. Worldmart, however, had huge stocks of tea in English warehouses they needed to sell. Hence the tax exemption scam which back fired and caused the American Revolution. A very big hole in the future of the British empire! Secondly, they will have perceived through the writings of Friedrich List as I mentioned earlier that pursuing a nationalistic economic development program can pay "dividends". The protectionist policy of the British they will have seen as enabling that country to build up both its industry and its military forces. It was the strength of the British navy that forced open China for trading with the British foreigners and allowed Worldmart to become a major drug baron causing massive social disruption in China through the importation of opium. Thirdly, they will have learnt a bitter lesson from Mao Zedong's behavior which is that too much power can create set backs for a country's development. The Cultural Revolution where schooling stopped for five years and the great March Forward famine were obvious examples but they could also learn that Chinese technological development stalled by 1500 AD due to the prohibitions of emperors and court bureaucrats. This, of course, left them vulnerable to a powerful military state like Britain with its interlinked corporate trading arms like the big Worldmart company. What economic and political conclusions would the Communist Party Leadership have concluded from the above? I think that they would have perceived that since America has nuclear weapons