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How do you think the English might have reacted to Qianlong’s letter?

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Answer:

trade with china is a privledge

Step-by-step explanation:

But as the tea, silk and porcelain which the Celestial

Empire produces, are absolute necessities to European

nations and to yourselves, we have permitted, as a signal

mark of favour, that foreign hongs should be established at

Canton, so that your wants might be supplied and your

country thus participate in our beneficence.

Based on this excerpt, what can most logically be concluded about Emperor.

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