For nearly a century, widespread Chinese addiction to opium destroyed millions of lives and ravaged a great nation. China’s history of being blighted by drugs can provide the U.S. with insights ...

Imports of tea, porcelain and silk from China had created a large trade imbalance. One product that the British could access ...

Rubio remarked, referencing the Opium Wars that confronted China and British opium merchants, as quoted by RFA. The Opium Wars that occurred between 1839 and 1842 and 1856 and 1860 saw China ...

PRESENTER:'They then bought up Indian opium and sold it to China, 'buying tea in return. PRESENTER:'And so they created a trading triangle. 'The profits were high, but so was the risk. PRESENTER ...

Although opium was used in China for centuries, it was not until the opening of the tea trade to Dutch and British merchants that China was able to import large quantities of the drug. By the early ...

Did China foster or resist the early wave of globalisation? How should we situate China within the global context prior to the First Opium War? Compared with the Dutch and the British, in what ways ...

In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused China of waging a "reverse" Opium War over fentanyl, suggesting that Beijing may be "deliberately" flooding ...

The relatively unknown story of wartime Japan’s ties with the opium trade in China is now in the public domain, courtesy of a manga series that has already sold more than 1.8 million copies in ...

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 ...