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(PLEASE HELP I NEED TO PASS,GIVING BRAIN)!!!Why did European nations help the Qing government put down the Taiping Rebellion?

O Europeans wanted to end the famine caused by the Taiping.
O Europeans wanted to end the opium trade of the Taiping.
O Europeans wanted to end the alliance between the Taiping and the US.
O Europeans were angry with the Taiping for banning al drugs and alcohol.

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foreign powers were prepared to protect Shanghai itself from the rebels, the understandable suspicion by the Imperial court of European intentions meant that for the time being further support would not be available from foreign governments.

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