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 ...

China was initially reluctant to take measures to help the U.S. deal with its addiction crisis, and the threat of tariffs does not make the Chinese any more likely to want to help. The Opium Wars ...

Dr. W. H. G. Aspland, General Secretary of the International Anti-Opium Association in Peking, says: “In two districts in South Fu-Kien the military authorities are planning to raise $15,000,000 ...

Kate Linebaugh: And why doesn't China have a domestic crisis? Brian Spegele: It's a great question, actually. I think, remember this is a country that dealt with the opium Wars in the 1800s and it ...

In scale, the crisis is comparable to China’s 19th-century opium crisis, where tens of millions were addicted to the drug. But the fentanyl crisis dwarfs the opium crisis in its sheer intensity.

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 ...

China was initially reluctant to take measures to help the U.S. deal with its addiction crisis, and the threat of tariffs does not make the Chinese any more likely to want to help. The Opium Wars ...