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Vor 5 Tagen · Meanwhile, as many as 40 million Chinese became addicted to opium. As the Chinese tried to control or prohibit opium's entry into the country, Britain waged two wars against it, forcing China not only to accept opium but also to cede control of Hong Kong and part of Shanghai. Eastern India became the epicenter of British opium production ...
Vor 3 Tagen · The 1840-42 Anglo-Chinese war (the so-called “Opium War”) is almost universally believed to have been triggered by British imperial rapacity and determination to sell more and more opium into China.
Vor 2 Tagen · It was the largest war in China since the Ming–Qing transition, involving most of Central and Southern China. It ranks as one of the bloodiest wars in human history, the bloodiest civil war, and the largest conflict of the 19th century.
Vor 5 Tagen · Although opium trade routes extending from the southeastern and southwestern regions of Asia closed temporarily during World War II, cultivation of the plant continued and even prospered in areas of China.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Vor 2 Tagen · Following China's defeat in the Opium Wars, Western colonial powers forced the Qing government to sign unequal treaties, granting them trading privileges, extraterritoriality and treaty ports under their control.
Vor 2 Tagen · What were the Opium Wars? What caused the Opium Wars? Who were the main combatants in the Opium Wars? Who won the Opium Wars? What were the long-term consequences of the Opium Wars?
Vor 2 Tagen · June 6, 2024, 4:16 PM. Memories of the Cold War against the Soviet Union are fading. Many balk at the idea of having a new cold war with China and at any prospect of returning to a world where the ...
