Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.

Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.