How did the u. s respond to european spheres of influence in china?

The Nineteenth Century has seen a marked involvement in China by European powers. Wars – the so-called “Opium Wars” – between China and Britain and France led to defeats for China. ... European nations also divided up China into spheres of influence and in these spheres the European nation involved all but ran it.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion