What the Opium Wars can tell us about China, the U.S. and fentanyl
While synthetic opiods are a relatively new class of drugs, opium has a long destructive history in trade wars and warfare, ...
Opiate War: US-China In A Fearsome Fentanyl Fight
The British forces inflicted a series of military defeats on the Chinese until 1842, when the war was ended with the Treaty ...
Richest 10% Got Over Half Of What UK Extracted From India During Colonialism: Oxfam Report
On money extracted from India by the UK during over 100 years of colonialism between 1765 and 1900, Oxfam said that beyond the richest, the main beneficiaries of colonialism were the newly emergent ...
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China-US Cooperation on the Fentanyl Crisis Is Very Possible
From 1839-1842 and again from 1856-1860, tens of thousands of Chinese lost their lives in two Opium Wars fought against Britain, other European powers, and the United States. Tired of Western ...