The opening salvo in the global war on drugs took place in a Dutch royal palace a century ago, and involved not guns but ...

This video uses Google Earth to retrace the Opium Wars between Britain and Qing China, revealing the global trade routes, ...

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The Chinese Communist Party can’t stop talking about how a “multipolar world” is on the horizon. References to “multipolarity” and its inescapable reality in the immediate future can be found peppered ...

At the launch of Shashi Ranjan Kumar’s book, The Decline of the Hindu Civilisation, writers and public intellectuals ...

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The U.S. campaign in Venezuela has drawn from a centuries-old playbook employing naval force — but added some new elements, ...

People traded as commodities, iron cages used for punishment, severed fingers and even human sacrifice. These grisly details were revealed during interrogations of some of Asia’s most notorious ...

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In the annals of finest-hour mythmaking, there are two abiding articles of faith: first, that the United Kingdom bravely ...

In this visionary experiment from Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan (Long Day’s Journey Into Night), dream and film, history and memory come together in a beautiful, shifting kaleidoscope of images. *No charge ...

As loose leaf tea spread, China held an extraordinary advantage. Virtually all of the world’s tea trees grew within its ...