Causes Of Imperialism In Vietnam

One of the motivating factors of the imperialism was Capitalism, profit, and economic exploitation. It started with a mission when the Jesuit father, Alexandre de Rhodes saw opportunities to enrich themselves with the valued resources. Vietnam had many rich resources such as rubber, rice coffee, tea and other highly valued resources. Cochinchina had 25 gigantic rubber plantation. Indochina was supplying 60,000 tons of rubber each year by the 1930s, which was five percent of all global production. Another rich resource that the French colonist and officials benefited from was growing, exporting and selling opium. Vietnam produced more than 80 tons of opium each year by 1930s. Local sales of opium were very profitable, addictiveness was also