To get our heads around the staggering reality that the United States is now openly attempting to destroy the European Union, we might start with the Opium War. It was launched to force a highly ...

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After the loss in the First Opium War, also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, the Qing government had to sign the Treaty of Nanjing that gave Britain and subsequently other Western powers like France, ...

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