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And from his point of view, the only choice he could see open to himself was to force China to reimburse Britain for those destroyed goods.And this basically set in motion what became a common feature of European imperialism, which was gunboat diplomacy.The British sent over a task force of troops and ships and started what became known as the First Opium War.