How the British Empire Used Opium to Bankrupt Imperial China
The British Empire didn’t just trade with China. It drugged it. The deliberate, state-backed opium strategy that bankrupted an entire civilization. This is not a story about addiction.…
The British Empire didn’t just trade with China. It drugged it. The deliberate, state-backed opium strategy that bankrupted an entire civilization. This is not a story about addiction.…
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