The British forces inflicted a series of military defeats on the Chinese until 1842, when the war was ended with the Treaty ...

While synthetic opiods are a relatively new class of drugs, opium has a long destructive history in trade wars and warfare, ...

Five years ago the province was Afghanistan's second-biggest opium producer ... The ensuing decade-long war between the Soviets and the U.S.-backed mujahideen claimed farm-to-market roads ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Opium Wars made it clear China had fallen gravely behind the West — not just militarily, but economically and politically. Every Chinese government ...