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.
Robert TroutAlthough the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
Robert TroutWere you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
Robert TroutThe myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.
Robert Trout