A better comparison is with China’s state-led expansion abroad. While it lacks the EIC’s habit of violence, modern China shares both its strategic ambition and

A better comparison is with China’s state-led expansion abroad. While it lacks the EIC’s habit of violence, modern China shares both its strategic ambition and its commercial veneer. Asia is still grappling with that awkward mix, four centuries after the EIC’s motley crew sailed from the foggy Thames https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2019/10/10/the-astonishing-and-violent-rise-of-the-east-india-company https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2019/10/10/the-asto...