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

China is prepared to negotiate with the Trump administration on how it can make more investments in the US after the president’s decision to impose 10% tariffs on the country — and ...

After the mid-18th century, when the British East India Co. was importing tea from China, few could have guessed that the industry would be revolutionized by a different plant: the opium poppy.

A 10-year-old's homework dispute in Yongning County, China, led to his father's opium stash being exposed. In retaliation for ...

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

But Mr Trump’s most incendiary claims are reserved for China. The Communist Party, he says, “has subsidised and otherwise ...

from China . . . ” Only the previous day, I had seen Fortune’s name in Lucy Inglis’s fascinating book Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium. I checked back and there was just this one ...

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Imports of tea, porcelain and silk from China had created a large trade imbalance . One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their ...