His status gave me a shock, as what had tea to do with opium? Searching in the book I found the answer: “The British opium trade resulted largely from the domestic demand for tea.” A double ...

To buy tea from the Chinese, British traders brought huge quantities of opium into the country, a practice that led to the two Opium Wars between Britain and China. We refer to these as the Opium ...

beginning with the First Opium War of 1839-42. In the first half of the 19th century, the British government faced an economic problem. Imports of tea, porcelain and silk from China had created a ...

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

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 ...

PRESENTER:'Britain had become a tea-drinking nation ... The Chinese resisted the opium trade. This led to war, after the Chinese destroyed all the British opium in China. The Chinese army ...

beginning with the First Opium War of 1839-42. In the first half of the 19th century, the British government faced an economic problem. Imports of tea, porcelain and silk from China had created a ...