The ensuing decade-long war ... opium production skyrocketed from 19 percent in 1986 to 90 percent two decades later. The greatest factor, however, was the Taliban. When it first came to power ...

PRESENTER:'Here in this room in Nanking, 'they negotiated the first ... Opium was grown in British India, and smuggled into China. The Chinese resisted the opium trade. This led to war, after ...

opium has a long destructive history in trade wars and warfare, beginning with the First Opium War of 1839-42. In the first ...

The result was the “First Opium War,” in which Britain won a resounding victory. As a consequence, Chinese ports were forcibly opened to British trade, including the opium trade. China was ...