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How the British Empire Waged a Drug War on China

This video cuts through the myth and gets to the real causes of the Opium Wars — profit, power, and foreign control. Britain wanted access to China’s markets, and opium became the weapon. See how the ...
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Opium Wars Mapped

Using Google Earth as our lens, we trace the Opium Wars by mapping the ports, river systems, and fortified positions that ...

How the 19th-century opium war shapes Xi’s trade clash with Trump

Trump “sees China as the winner of the international modern order, but Xi Jinping sees China as its victim,” said Julia ...
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Ruan Yuan, 1764-1849 : the life and work of a major scholar-official in nineteenth-century China before the Opium War / Betty Peh-T'i Wei

Ruan Yuan, 1764-1849 : the life and work of a major scholar-official in nineteenth-century China before the Opium War / Betty Peh-T'i Wei ...

Myanmar's opium poppy cultivation hits highest level in a decade, UN says

Opium poppy cultivation in war-torn Myanmar has surged to its highest level in a decade, rising 17% in the past year as ...

Myanmar makes more meth than anywhere else. Opium production there also just hit a decade high, report says

Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar surged to its highest level in a decade this year as the nation engaged in a civil war remains one of the world’s primary suppliers of illicit drugs, according to a ...