COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
IMPERIALISM IN ASIA
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opium
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amphetamines
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nicotine
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somatotrophine
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Detailed explanation-1: -opium trade, in Chinese history, the traffic that developed in the 18th and 19th centuries in which Western countries, mostly Great Britain, exported opium grown in India and sold it to China.
Detailed explanation-2: -In order to stop this, the East India Company and other British merchants began to smuggle Indian opium into China illegally, for which they demanded payment in silver. This was then used to buy tea and other goods. By 1839, opium sales to China paid for the entire tea trade.
Detailed explanation-3: -Britain was selling opium to China and causing a severe crisis of addiction within the country. In an attempt to put a stop to this, China ended up at war with Britain – twice. China already had prohibition against opium when the British began trading it, but that did not deter them.