Meet the "Rothschilds of the East", the Sassoon Family.
In Bombay, he built the international business called David S. Sassoon, with the policy of staffing it with people brought from Baghdad. They filled the functions of the various branches of his business in India, Burma, Malaya, and east Asia. He cemented the family's dominant position in the Sino-Indian opium trade. (See First Opium War.) The family's businesses in China, and Hong Kong especially, were built to capitalise on the opium business.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassoon_family
Lady Rothschild was born in Paris, where her parents had a house on Avenue Marigny. In 1887, aged 19, she married Edward Sassoon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aline_Caroline_de_Rothschild
The Sassoons were the "foot in the door" to China for the Rothschilds.
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