A personal assessment of the game's diplomacy questions why countries refuse trade agreements when relations are merely indifferent. In that situation, the financial benefits are considered sufficient reason to accept. This is a preference about the simulation's decisions, without a wider explanation of historical trade diplomacy.
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Questioning refusals of profitable trade agreements
Refused trade agreements prompt the view that financial benefits should carry more weight when relations are indifferent.