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The Second Opium War – What Made Britain Return to China?Less than two decades after the First Opium War, Britain launched another brutal campaign against Qing China this time with ...
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The First Opium War: Trade, Opium, and Imperial PowerThe First Opium War wasn’t just about drugs it was about trade, empire, and clashing worldviews. This video explores why Britain went to war with China in 1839, using opium as leverage to force open ...
Love for the motherland, or patriotism, is the third element in China’s World War II narrative, alongside hatred of Japanese ...
Sam Kelly explains how Queen Victoria became a huge fan of drugs—and how she brought China to its knees because of it.
China seeks to undo the ‘Century of Humiliation’ in which it ceded great territory to Moscow.
A survey of China’s periphery demonstrates the authoritarian’s need to isolate itself cognitively through the Great Firewall, ...
The exhibits at the Opium War Museum in Humen include "opium paste" that fueled mass addiction in China in the early 19th century. [Photo by Satarupa Bhattacharjya/China Daily] The Qing government ...
When Trump first slapped tariffs on steel and soybeans during his first term, he didn’t just ignite a trade war, he shattered the idea that America would forever defend free trade. Now, back in the ...
In Nanjing, a team of university architects negotiate the complex legacy of the late Qing dynasty reformer Li Hongzhang in a ...
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Al Jazeera on MSNMyanmar military claims recapture of strategic town from rebel forceTa’ang National Liberation Army rebels did not acknowledge the loss of Nawnghkio, saying they moved to ‘safe locations’.
That comforting cup of ‘cha’ you hold in your hand hides a bitter history of colonial theft, exploitation and ongoing injustice in South Asia’s tea plantations ...
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