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 colonial ...

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

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

U.S. President Donald Trump has slapped new tariffs on Chinese goods, partly in response to Beijing's alleged role in a ...

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 ...

PROF. ZHENG YANGWEN:That the Chinese were buying a little bit of opium every time, and that number was increasing. PRESENTER:'The key to the opium trade was British control of India, 'where the ...

Howard Chua-Eoan is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion covering culture and business. He previously served as Bloomberg Opinion's international editor and is a former news director at Time magazine.

In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump imposing a 10% levy against China and pressing a 30-day pause on proposed tariffs ...

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 ...