The Opium Wars began as a trade dispute but quickly turned into a brutal demonstration of imperial power. Britain flooded China with opium to reverse a massive silver drain, and when Qing officials ...

The First Opium War began as a trade dispute, but it quickly exposed a deeper power struggle between Britain and Qing China. Britain faced a massive silver drain because Chinese merchants demanded ...

In another grim signal of a widening war in northern Burma’s opium zones, last week saw an outbreak of intense fighting between government forces and ethnic rebels, prompting some 50,000 Kokang ...

The fact is that through the 1990s and early 2000s both countries were able to maintain peace and tranquility along the LAC ...

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