What the Opium Wars can tell us about China, the U.S. and fentanyl
United States President Donald Trump recently threatened to impose an additional 10 per cent tariff on goods coming from ...
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 ...
Child seeks revenge for being scolded about homework, snitches about father’s opium stash to police
A 10-year-old's homework dispute in Yongning County, China, led to his father's opium stash being exposed. In retaliation for ...
Letter: Opium and tea — the double whammy
In Joël Penkman’s article “Small plants, big business” about the rise of plant poaching (Magazine, Life & Arts, January 25) my eye was caught by the name Robert Fortune, who Penkman tells us “brought ...
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Book of the day: Emperor of the Seas - Kublai Khan and the Making of China
The Mongol Chinese emperor Kublai Khan was immortalised by English poet Samuel Coleridge’s opium-fuelled descriptions of the “pleasure dome” at Xanadu, the imperial summer capital in northern China.
Addicted: how the world got hooked on illicit drugs – and why we need to view this as a global threat like climate change
As with climate change, why are we so slow to recognise the existential threat that drug use poses to humanity?