What the Opium Wars can tell us about China, the U.S. and fentanyl
United States President Donald Trump recently threatened to impose an additional 10 per cent tariff on goods coming from China in response the illegal import into the U.S. of the opioid fentanyl.
Opiate War: US-China In A Fearsome Fentanyl Fight
The British forces inflicted a series of military defeats on the Chinese until 1842, when the war was ended with the Treaty ...
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The truth about Japan’s wartime opium monopoly in Manchukuo
The relatively unknown story of wartime Japan’s ties with the opium trade in China is now in the public domain, courtesy of a manga series that has already sold more than 1.8 million copies in ...
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U.N. drug experts say opium production has leveled off in Myanmar, but instability may trigger a rise
BANGKOK--There has been a slight drop in the production of opium in Myanmar, the world’s biggest source of the illicit drug from which heroin is derived, experts from the United Nations said ...