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Britain dickheads once ruled the wave, through gunboats diplomacy, and colonized 460 million population round the world, 120 million more than China. What an achievement, semi-colonized China some more and monopoly in opium trade.

In EU their hand are tied and jin tulan better leave. After Brexit, let's see how this evil race remake their dreams again, repeat gunboat diplomacy?


https://www.lewrockwell.com/2012/09/...hinesehistory/



British Empire Funded by Opium

Still, the real narco-republic in world history isn’t the United States, Mexico, Colombia or other transit points to the artificially created drug epidemic in the United States. This dubious honor actually goes to the British Empire, as their Bengal-to-China opium business during the time of Queen Victoria grew into the world’s largest commodity trade during the 19th century. Opium accounted for almost 20 percent of the Empire’s total revenue, yet opium was just the tip of the addictive trade.

In the United States and the British Empire addictive substances were the major business of British mercantilism. For example, the original British colonies like Jamestown and Virginia were economically unfeasible before the smoking of tobacco caught on in Europe and smoking and snuff created a cash crop from America.

Later, sugar from British Caribbean colonies was added to the British consumption of tea from China and the entire Empire became addicted to tea. But there was a problem. Unlike in the Americas where cotton and tobacco were traded for British manufactured goods, China simply said no to foreign imports.


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