The other flows from opium trafficking supported by the Taliban ... The ensuing decade-long war between the Soviets and the U.S.-backed mujahideen claimed farm-to-market roads, irrigation canals ...

From the 19th-century Opium Wars to the recent banana and beef disputes, history is replete with trade conflicts. The ...

These conflicts often escalate tensions, sometimes even leading to physical wars, while also leaving profound effects on industries ... in the conflict. 3. The Opium Wars: Devastation in China ...

Volume two covers the subsequent period through Japan’s World War II defeat of 1945. The second volume also notes that the Manchukuo government forced opium addicts and other drug users to work ...

In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, when Britain launched a ...