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Great Britain opium

The infamous Opium Wars between Great Britain and China in the mid-1800s did not solve the problem for the Chinese. The victorious British compelled the Chinese to make restitution for damages and to allow the opium trade. By that time, Chinese farmers were producing opium at home and opium smoking had spread widely. ... [Pg.8]

The description is familiar, but we are not writing of America in 1978, but China in 1838, on the eve of the first Opium War, when Great Britain landed troops to compel China to ingest the poison distributed by British merchants. [Pg.9]

Keswick, of the hereditary drug-trading family that founded and still controls Jardine Matheson, also represented the RIIA and its sub-branch, the Institute for Pacific Relations, to the United States. (6) Sir John Henry is still Britain s number one man for China policy, Chairman of Britain s China Association, Vice-President of the Sino-British Trade Council, and a member of the Great Britain-China Committee. (His predecessor at the China Association from 1951-55 was John Kidston Swire, of the old opium-trading Swire family, who still sits on the London Committee of the HongShang.)... [Pg.144]

Great Britain in the mid-1800s occurred in large part because Britain was unwilling to curtail its trade of opium into China. [Pg.39]

The Opium Wars between China and Great Britain in the mid-1800s occurred in large part because Britain was unwilling to curtail its trade of opium into China. T Most of the opium used in China at the time was... [Pg.56]


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