Assertion: western power | /r/CapableOf | exploit their advantages
Facets:
value: by the opium wars
type: OTHER
value: in china
type: LOCATION
value: in asia
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Industrialisation, however, dramatically increased European demand for Asian raw materials; and the severe Long Depression of the 1870s provoked a scramble for new markets for European industrial products and financial services in Africa, the Americas, Eastern Europe, and especially in Asia (Western powers exploited their advantages in China for example by the Opium Wars).