Pankaj Mishra quotePankaj Mishra [1969-0]
Indian Novelist 
Quote rank: 302
| In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty. |
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