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 ...

United States President Donald Trump recently threatened to impose an additional 10 per cent tariff on goods coming from ...

Chinese authorities have become increasingly concerned about the impact of gaming, particularly worsening eyesight, passivity and online addiction, and thus the need to end “spiritual opium”.

By the early nineteenth century opium was the principal product that the English East India Company traded in China and opium addiction was becoming a widespread social problem. When the emperor's own ...

The opium trade cost the lives and livelihoods of millions, both the Chinese who succumbed to addiction, and the Indians who suffered and died supplying the demand. Meanwhile, there was a new ...

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 ...

Chinese media has called the gaming addiction as the “opium of the mind.” The developers of Fortnite in China have shut down the servers of the game in the country. Fortress Night, as the game ...

Illegal fentanyl supplies are largely produced in China and Mexico and then smuggled into the United States. Opioids, a class of drugs derived from the opium poppy plant, can be divided into two ...

PRESENTER:'And soon the ravages of the drug 'became apparent in the streets of China, with millions of addicts. PROF. ZHENG YANGWEN:'By the 1820s, opium addiction became visible socially.' ...