What the Opium Wars can tell us about China, the U.S. and fentanyl
Further hostilities broke out in the Second Opium War of 1856-58 when combined British and French forces again inflicted ...
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Opinion: China’s ‘Century of Humiliation’ with opium figures into the US fentanyl crisis
Twenty years later, China lost the Second Opium War, in which French, Russian and a few American forces participated alongside the British. China was compelled to accept full legalization of the ...
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Opium Wars
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 ...
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The truth about Japan’s wartime opium monopoly in Manchukuo
Volume two covers the subsequent period through Japan’s World War II defeat of 1945. The second volume also notes that the Manchukuo government forced opium addicts and other drug users to work ...