AHA! The continuing benefits of association

Once Britain benefited colossally by its association with China. Just on the opium trade by its British agent, David Sassoon and and his Jewish family the monetary returns were more fabulous that Aladdin's cave.

And now this:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/iraq-maliki-us-strikes-air-isis-sunni

Question:
This kind of continuing kindness and largess is typically Confucian.