lands of the pacific. it Africa the principal European powers, especially Great Britain and France, seized vast areas that they incorporated into their comparatively late, so that they had only a small stake in Africa. In Asia the British stood in India Burma, and Malaya; the French were in Indochina; the Dutch, in Indonesin. In Chian, the imperialist countries did not incorporate vast areas, but instead secured only ports and then claimed trading privileges in the himterland. Thus China was subdivided not into colonies but "spheres of interest," among the British,French,germans,Russians,and Japanese.