Trade wars have not only impacted economies but also the lives of countless individuals. These conflicts often escalat ...

The Professor of English Language and Literature at Brock University specifically notes that the First Opium War, fought between China and the British Empire from 1839–1842, began as a trade ...

Opium was grown in British India, and smuggled into China. The Chinese resisted the opium trade. This led to war, after the Chinese destroyed all the British opium in China. The Chinese army and ...

The other flows from opium trafficking supported by the Taliban ... The ensuing decade-long war between the Soviets and the U.S.-backed mujahideen claimed farm-to-market roads, irrigation canals ...

The resulting Opium Wars further weakened the already struggling Qing dynasty; it was forced to lift the prohibition and legalise the opium trade. The addiction crisis in China was used by the British ...

British merchants persuaded the British government to send the navy to attack Chinese ports, in the name of defending trade. The First Opium War lasted from 1839 to 1842. The British Royal Navy ...

From Ssuyu Teng and John Fairbank, China's Response to the West (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1954), reprinted in Mark A. Kishlansky, ed., Sources of World History, Volume II, (New York: ...

resembling a 'reverse' scenario of the Opium Wars in the mid-1800s that weakened China's global position, according to a report from Radio Free Asia (RFA). The Tribune, now published from ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote ... Aung Hla agreed. With the war, he said, "we don't have any choice." ...

The Opium Wars, a 19th-century armed conflict between the Qing Dynasty and the British Empire, is narrated by a history professor who has a hypnotic effect on his students.