How The Opium Trade Destroyed China’s Greatest Empire | Empires Of Silver | Absolute History

[@adityavyas4310]

The other aspect of Opium trade by the British was that Bengal saw many famines and millions died as farmers were forced to grow opium instead of rice and other food crops.

[@rickybolio]

Bi

[@Robert-hy3vv]

There were many famines before the british showed up. There is plenty of arable land in india even to this day.

[@Myname8315]

British depravity knows no bounds

[@bunnyfreakz]

@@Robert-hy3vv British famine were man made.

[@Tespri]

@@bunnyfreakz so why didn't indians farm in other fertile soil that they had ;)?

[@lengray44]

My dad, who was an engineer, educated at Purdue, was completely wrong in his understanding of the Opium War. He believed that the British were fighting to keep the Chinese from spreading opium all over the world.I think that a great many people thought that. He graduated in 1962. I think maybe it was the propaganda of that time.

[@crayrayc]

daym.. really makes you wonder about the propaganda being spread today

[@SW-fy8pq]

Using the media to brainwash is a common tactic used by warmonger governments to glorify their evil deeds. Another example is Japan. They don't know that their Japanese troops have killed tens of millions of children and innocent people in China and Southeast Asia. They even used chemical weapons against the Chinese people, just like Hitler massacred the Jews. But because Japan is under the control of the United States, all the evil deeds of the United States and Japan are covered up.

[@SW-fy8pq]

During the deadly riots in Hong Kong in 2019, ignorant parents finally discovered that their children’s schools had tarnished the history of the Opium War. The school textbooks claimed that the British government wanted to help the Chinese get rid of the opium trade, but in fact they systematically sold opium to the Chinese for the purpose of It was to colonize China in order to obtain abundant resources.

[@SW-fy8pq]

I hold a British passport and have lived in the UK for many years. No British people knew the evil committed by their ancestors. All of them firmly believe that Britain is a great country that upholds human life and freedom, and brings peace and prosperity to the world. Americans are no different, they strongly believe they are the righteous ones, others are evil.

[@crayrayc]

@@SW-fy8pq such an injustice =(

[@julianshepherd2038]

I suppose the British will get the blame just because we did it

[@maxdavis7722]

Ay, we apparently felled chinas greatest empire, quite an impressive feat.

[@UncleHam1337]

Aint that logical?

[@technomickdocumentalist2495]

@@UncleHam1337 Ain’t that the joke ?

[@UncleHam1337]

@@technomickdocumentalist2495 Was that a joke?

[@alansiebert7029]

What uk trading opium, yes

[@就是妙妙]

The opium war was one of the biggest reason why China has a super strict policy on drugs today. Our 5000 years history almost ended because of it, an empire was brought down to its knees, and we sacrificed too much to get back on our feet. This is why today, any Chinese celebrity who has touched drugs in the Chinese mainstream society is deemed unforgivable, and even weed is considered way off limits. History was a great lesson, and we hope we will never forget

[@kwamesmith3214]

…and that’s why the Chinese love liver cancer…

[@SV-kr9fu]

Americans: "Pass me the bong, bro!"

[@FloridaGirl-]

Well, they are giving pay back. As Nearly all fentanyl precursors come from China. These precursors are then made into fentanyl. But it doesn't stop there. Companies in China also manufacture other synthetic or man-made drugs-that make the fentanyl threat even more addictive and even more deadly As we see on the streets of America today. Zombies.

[@Justa318i]

is it also why they ship fentanyl to the us

[@SV-kr9fu]

@@Justa318i: They learned it from the Brits; illegalize drugs in its empire, but sell them to others.

[@Cymricus]

i’m 38 and it took me until now to realize i actually enjoy history

[@jasonmajere2165]

History is messy and interesting, not memorizing dates in a pg version.

[@charlytaylor1748]

I read History Began in Sumer when I was 40 and have been addicted to history for over 20 years

[@raticallife1320]

yeah we were robbed of it in school, weren't we? what a waste they made history boring AF in the class room. it's actually very fascinating stuff.

[@charlytaylor1748]

@@raticallife1320 they did the same with Shakespeare

[@naturalLin]

The older you become the more interested you become in history

[@MrLoobu]

"Tea takes hold quite rapidly. it's an addictive drug" Sells fucking opium.

[@vb198x2]

haaaa hah im deaaddd hahaa,

[@everest9707]

😂

[@stanleywh9796]

i think now can use coffee is addictive drug - sell Coc

[@Hunter_Nebid]

Ummm...what??

[@Hunter_Nebid]

Oh hush up, little girl. Your race envy is getting boring. @stanlywh9796

[@melissapinol7279]

I remember my mom telling me that the Opium Wars were about the noble British trying to keep opium "out" of China. I suppose that is what she was taught in school.

[@kyliex6310]

oh wow....I saw another comment mentioning the same thing from his dad.

[@Brembelia]

Yes, I was taught the same thing. It wasn't until just awhile ago, when watching a Sally Lockwood Mystery did I first hear and see that Victorian English were selling little white cakes of the stuff, like small white ingots with a raised crown on top. I was shocked at this revelation and had to go online looking for the truth. I thought if this was a fictitious invention, it was a whopper. Nope. Turned out to be true.

[@christianclerc8360]

🤣🤣🤣 HSBC and Standard Chartered banks made fortunes. The British propaganda brainwashing the people....Justlike they did during covod, injections, the war in the ME, the war in UKRAINE... Nothing changes ... Greed corrupts politicians

[@oysterman962]

and I was taught that the great wall of China was to keep them out of Mongolia. You can't trust them Chineses

[@p46709394]

oh wow reallly ? and they call the chinese people brainwashed by govt.

[@SWAROOPSKNAIR]

Pablo Escobar won’t even get an Internship at the Colonial British Empire.

[@oysterman962]

everyone blames the English when the 2 fellas who ran the opium company were Scots

[@petergreen5337]

😢absolutely CORRECT and true

[@tedgebregzi3832]

It is shocking for people who respect the British to read this.Napolion too,the backward white people.

[@tedgebregzi3832]

They are the reason for us Ethiopians to stay behind.

[@haroldbell213]

They pushed it hard. A way to control people as well.

[@yenkassa]

So, the British were a large scale Pablo Escobar.

[@petarkanev8156]

why 'were'? the brits and americans still control global drug trade

[@davidtwliew616]

They made Escobar looks like small time retail merchant.😅😅😅

[@aikaterinimoschou9437]

Always/Everywhere.

[@evanr1784]

Great analogy 😅 Imagine the US stopping all import of cocaine and President Pablo Escobar of a now powerful Colombia invades the US and forces them to buy it​@aikaterinimoschou9437

[@michaeldob9526]

Still are.

[@pdruiz2005]

At 40:35. This incorruptible Chinese official, Lin Zexu, tried his mighty best to stem the drug trade from British and American drug lords and drug traffickers in the 1830s. The Chinese are understandably proud of him, so Lin Zexu has a large statue in the middle of Chinatown in NYC commemorating his life and his sacrifices. When I used to live in Chinatown I would walk by that mighty statue of Lin Zexu practically every day. A constant reminder that the past is never dead. It's not even past.

[@wolfu597]

According to Lins associate, Wei Yuan, British plenipotentiary, captain Charles Elliot, had offered early on to help find a way to end the opium smugling trade, but Lin Zexy rebuffed him. Which, according to Wei was one major mistake at that time. One big misconception is about Lin Zexu confiscating opium from western warehouses. Which is rather incorrect. The opium was stored on ships ankered off shore, and when Lin launched his crack down, they just lifted anker and set sail for Manila, Singapore or the Dutch East Indies to wait it out. The only reason Lin was able to destroy 20 000 chests of opium at Humen, was because of Charles Elliot, who bought it from the opium dealers at market value, which they happily accepted, and then handed it over to Lin Zexu.

[@Walkthepath92]

@@wolfu597 But then why was China ordered to pay compensation?

[@wolfu597]

@@Walkthepath92 Contrary to belief, the biggest push did not come from the Opium dealers. It came from those that had nothing to do with the opium trade. When Lin Zexu launched his crack down, he effectively shut down the entire Canton trade, which affect everyone, opium dealers or not, and that lasted for weeks and weeks. As such, legal goods, worth way more than the opium that was destroyed, was left sitting on ships and in warehouses, and people who were dependent on the Canton trade for their livelihood, started losing money. Lins predecessor Deng Tingzhen, along with the man that would succeed him, Qishan, both said to him: Don' target the foreigners. Because many of the officials in the south, who had seen firsthand the ships, the thickness of their hulls, and their cannons, had strongly advised against pushing the foreigners too far.

[@DW-op7ly]

They were looking for any reason.force China into a confrontation and make them into the bad guys…. And where it’s okay to keep selling China opium in return for its treasures And seriously doubt a person like him or anyone else Is going to believe these days, the Chinese selling their precursor drugs for fentanyl/or fentanyl itself to Mexican Cartels that eventually make it to the USA That the Chinese get to wash their hands of it

[@silverchairsg]

I remember him from history class. Intro level history course on History of Asia in university.

[@conanmcclanahan1069]

That 3 minute intro deserves a TON of credit... I don't have an entire hour at this moment. But you SOLD me on this documentary!

[@ArrowToTheKnee]

It's very much worth it so I'm writing this to remind you its here if you forgot to watch it. I do that all the time 😂

[@gunsroses1293]

the qing dynasty was one of the worst and weakest dynastys in chinses history it was ranked 9th in military and 3rd in econmy. The ming, tang, han are the greatest chinses Empires they were all ranked number 1 in military and ranked number 1 in economy

[@kathyschreiber9947]

Something very reminiscent about the opioid crisis in the US. Pretty sure a lot of it is fueled by Chinese chemicals. I guess what goes around comes around.

[@WongPeter-tx7qq]

@@gunsroses1293 Somehow China gained a lot of territories (Xinjiang, Manchuria and Inner Mongolia) because of the Qing dynasty. Go compare the map of China in the Ming dynasty and that of the Qing dynasty and you notice the huge difference.

[@DavidBall-v5i]

Opium yesterday, fentanyl today, same outcome.

[@Gratefuldeadgriffin]

Opium kill pain fentanyl just kills

[@robwilson5238]

@@Gratefuldeadgriffinfentanyl quite literally also kills pain. It is used in medical settings all the time, it’s a fantastic drug in our arsenal. Sudden onset, quick half-life, it’s perfect for surgical settings and acute end-of-life/disease pain. However, as someone who’s gone through fentanyl addiction (street fentanyl), you also have to understand you’re talking about multiple different drugs. Fent on the street isn’t the same fent as in a hospital setting

[@garrettkato]

It’s crazy how North American medical industry did this to their own country.

[@voidrandom321]

The upper class will always do something to the lower.

[@PunaSquirrel]

Aloha from Hawai'i. You make good music🤙🏼

[@dthundergunb3115]

Yeah it's all due to policies like NAFTA the founders wouldn't have ever allowed policies like free trade to happen. That and regulations in the US mean higher prices and less profits for big pharma...they can't have that so they'll use slave labor in china's industry where there's no regulations so labor is dirt cheap but if we we're to go to war with them....then it's bye bye medication

[@johnallen2535]

The Sackler family did this to America

[@kerrymarris4260]

Our whole government has perpatrade this, because Joe Biden and his vengeful son Hunter, are just the tip of the icebergs, that have sold out to foreigner enemies, their just trying to speed up the depopulation train, because it's going to slow. Everything in America is upside down.. because greedy has taken over Britain got addicted to tea, so they returned the favor with optimum. Justified by greed, and has carried on more or less since it started.

[@justinreilly1]

There’s nothing more Victorian and British-square than having a mountain of Opium and giving it away for tea.

[@brettbanta2100]

Who wouldn't like a mountain of opium?

[@fanwan1206]

Giving it away? They scammed china for tea with opium

[@youngsixty7395]

"Anglo caused most of the world's problems." - David Cameron, former British Prime Minister

[@gumby710]

First taste is free

[@vinozarazzi5633]

"Giving it away for tea..." - Sounds like narcissistic gas lighting...😮

[@gomezleonardo60]

The documentary was exceptionally insightful. As an American PhD student specializing in Chinese affairs, currently residing in Guangzhou, I found its portrayal of the city to be enchanting, capturing its beauty and the myriad of undisclosed intricacies within. In my scholarly opinion, Canton is indisputably a pivotal region in China. The documentary's emphasis on the impacts of the opium wars was both truthful and precise. The work done here is nothing short of tremendous.

[@dongshenghan1473]

I am from Guangzhou. I haven't been back for years (since covid). How is the economy fairing nowadays? Are you thoroughly hating the climate yet?

[@punchyMiddleEarth]

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[@starman4840]

We know you’re not a doctor you’re just looking up big boy words lol

[@danielb7253]

The Qing dynasty was Manchu and run by Manzus. Yuan dynasty was mongol and the CCP claims it was Han.. LOL...Please help me with the lies Phd professor.

[@andrewjackman2251]

My perspective that GB used the sale of Opium to the Chinese was specifically a biological weapon to weaken that region , today is ironic that Alot of Americans are zombies because of one of the many drugs they take , and one of them is fentanyl manufactured in China ,

[@فهدالشافعي-ف2و]

Because of that period "century of humiliation," China learned a lesson, don't ever be weak again, you have to have an economic and military might to deter other world powers, especially the West.

[@danieltang1680]

A great and forthright documentary. My perspective is that I was born in Hong Kong and have now lived in the UK for almost 50 years. I remember when I was a kid that we used to play around our houses and now and again we used to find tiny terracotta pots buried in the soil. These little pots were containers for opium. To this day, I am still astonished that the Victorian Britain which was supposed to be a christian and moral country would allow such an ugly trade of tea for opium. I no longer harbour any bitterness. But to many Chinese, they still have a sense of entrenched indignation and insult. Sadly this might be reflected in the mindset of the increasingly powerful Chinese ruling leadership.

[@samuelphillian1286]

China is crumbling

[@waleed8530]

The Brits are very pragmatic when it comes to politics and fulfilling their interests and agenda by any means necessary, hence the great success and therefore defiantly not a Christian nation nor a moral one.

[@agxryt]

I was going to ask why you would feel any indignation over shit that happened generations ago. But then I realized I'm gay, and feel enraged by what gay people have had to endure at the hands of Christians for years, and it kinda clicked. People were shitty back then I guess

[@casusbelli8222]

Blamed on Christians ? The real culprits were the Kadoorie and thhe Sassoon family. They were Jews.

[@samuelphillian1286]

@@agxryt why do you only single out Christians when Muslims throw gays off roofs in 2023? Because you’re a hypocrite

[@pdruiz2005]

At 23:55. Well, the Chinese were not stupid. They had read and heard about the British conquest of India from the 1750s right on through the 1810s and 1820s. Great and powerful India--the mighty land of the Buddha and the Buddhist scriptures--was now a mere colony of the British. This rightfully made the Chinese authorities suspicious and scared that the British were aiming to set up a colony in China next.

[@DAVID-kd3qy]

The history of the British Empire is really quite sordid and shameful.

[@vinceb4380]

China is back on the World Stage to take its rightful place at the Top.🐯🐉❤❤❤

[@outdoorscholar6016]

I think it’s safe to say their fears were recognized with the current mess that is Hong Kong: the mainland never had *total* jurisdiction over it until the 90s, and even after they got it the West pretty much went “if I can’t have HK, no one can” and started stirring up the youth with lies about “independence”

[@xoho3462]

India is hindu…

[@andrewwilliams3137]

@@outdoorscholar6016 You have got to be joking. The mainland had no jurisdiction, China ceded Hong Kong Island and Kowloon on the peninsula in perpetuity, only the New Territories were leased for 99 years. Britain founded Hong Kong city and built it from nothing to become one of the largest manufacturing economies in Asia by the end of it's time as a British Empire colony. Hong Kong was then a British Dependent Territory and Commonwealth member. In the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration the UK agreed to transfer it in 1997 and China would guarantee Hong Kong economic and political systems for 50 yrs. The agreement "triggered a wave of mass emigration as residents feared an erosion of civil rights, the rule of law, and quality of life". "Over half a million people left the territory during the peak migration period, from 1987 to 1996" . Seems they're still not happy about it now.

[@grazryan]

I was so invested from start to finish! Very greatly done!

[@donvillarante1517]

I guess East India Company is the world's first cartel

[@frozenrats]

Not even close

[@horstnietzsche1923]

No but they were probably the first world wide one.

[@raakbas1]

John Company was always a John Company.😂 (John Company is the Indian name for a Company of thieves. It would never keep its word to the natives always cheating them 😂)

[@robertewalt7789]

British East India Company copied the Dutch East India Company, which had developed trade in Asia before the British.

[@callumcc8897]

@@robertewalt7789Yeah… And the Spanish were trading before them! Just remember your country did not exist prior to the first western trade ships to china

[@Rutuspace]

This was my first time watching a histroy documentry. I used to like histroy in my school days a lot then I lost touch with it. But trust me when I say that - this was truly an exceptional documentry". Thanks!!

[@ChelinTutorials]

What an amazing documentary. Incredible quality. Thank you so much. ❤

[@Philip-mw4qs]

True story!!! Mostly.... "Man's heart is decietful above all things and, desperately wicked 🤔" Poor China 😢...

[@muktarahmed662]

I love history, and this documentary so well made. Was invested on it to the very end

[@burnttoast6813]

This has been a great documentary so far, thank you all for all the hard work and attention to detail! I remember watching a documentary about the opium trade in China with my parents when I was hardly tall enough to sit at the table, and it always stuck with me that the emperor banned opium despite his personal use, still have that image in my head. Thank you!

[@domenigo97]

I find the title on the thumbnail misleading. They weren't China's Opium Wars. They were Britain's Opium Wars against China.

[@oysterman962]

No, let's blame China. Like how the US flu was named the Spanish flu. And the American's call theirs the Indian Wars. It's never the white man's fault. They just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time

[@tobir693]

It's not misleading. That is the name given to these events by Historians.

[@Peleski]

It was a war, just one that was over fast.

[@UniteFoundation1]

Misleading is the twin brother of Divide and Rule. Thank you Balfour. (bitch)

[@suziedawson8315]

Dic

[@bushlovesska]

Im American and this haiquai guy who helped fund early parts of the industrial revolution is someone ive never heard of but he sounds amazing

[@byhyew]

Basically the first corrupt Chinese official to smuggle money out of the country. Nowadays you find half of Toronto inhabited by such families. 😂

[@RobinsWood1]

An American author by the name James Bradley has publish a book in 2019. Tittle, The China Mirage, hope this book might help you to understand that chapter of American history in debt. BTW another very interesting history book by Jung Chang tittle: The 3 Sisters. Big sister love power, 2nd sister love money, 3rd sister love her country.

[@freneticness6927]

His impact would have been essentially nothing.

[@slee101643]

Thanks!

[@wagherbert]

A truly exceptional documentary on a fascinating period of history. Thank you.

[@mohdfahmi8841]

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[@MasterCheeks-2552]

So did almost every empire in history@@Horizon429

[@peterg219]

And just to think 200 years ago, the Jesuits boasted that 'they' already controlled China. Currently both the white & the black Popes are Jesuits, for the 1st time in history.

[@revellen]

Shows how evil the UK has been in the past.

[@MasterCheeks-2552]

The Chinese would eat their prisoners of war@@revellen

[@youngsixty7395]

The fact that we get free documentaries on KZbin by Absolute History is truly a gift.. 👏👏👏 May I also remind you the fact that our Native American population in our motherland, the Continent of America before the European Colonizers arrived, was around 15 millions, while the European population in their motherland, the Continent of Europe was around 25 millions. Today, Native American population is 15 million, while the European population, in the Continents of America + Europe, is a staggering TWO BILLION! A shocking sad truth. 😔 In my humble opinion, it's about time to decolonize the Colonized lands, and return it to rightful owners Native American people. Notorious global cardinal crimes the Christian West has committed, and benefited a great deals, such as Slavery & Colonialism had long been over, why on earth is notorious Colonization still lingering on, may I ask? 😔

[@olefella7561]

A gift.

[@myleghurts3546]

New encyclopedia for all....and no wasted paper

[@Taketimeout3]

From Russia.....

[@myleghurts3546]

Nothing from Russia is of any value so what are you selling??@@Taketimeout3

[@olddirtybasterd-ex2vb]

32:15 hard pass on the bird's nest soup and pigeons egg, Mr Qua

[@gategi10]

Incredible how brainwsshed we all have been in our schools . At least we have the chance to find out about real history . THE British East India Company was so powerful it was really a typical example of imperiañisation through the back door

[@moviesmovies5337]

As a kid I hated history but now it seems I can't get enough 😆

[@bingcao116]

Me the same 😊

[@albertomartin4812]

Youth is there to live. Later you reflect on the past. I guess.

[@HaiLe-ru2zw]

always love it as a kid and now

[@michaelmisquez5794]

Maybe because this is not white washed

[@moodyrick8503]

How, history is presented, is very important. As a really good teacher can make all the difference. But that, is highly arbitrary, unfortunately.

[@xispaster]

The Spanish government (catholic), was always against the commercialization of opium. It even refused the idea of using the Philippines as entrepôt for the trade of Indian opium or trying to cultivate it there. However, Fernando VII (who else?) abolished the prohibition to cultivate opium in Luzon in April 1828, but the local authorities ignored it and never supported its cultivation. By the time of the Second Opium War, the Captain-General of the Philippines, Fernando de Norzagaray, proclaimed a general prohibition to all hispano-filipino corporations to try to trade opium for ‘health and public moral reasons’.

[@krystofcisar469]

ever thought that opium was only real anesthetic until late 1900´s? opium was always very valuble and useful herb product... i would say that prohibition was rather immoral in fact...

[@buwanbuwaya6927]

@@krystofcisar469 Didn't regulateThe it enough, and also look at the drug problems now at latin America, the Philippines? It the habits of their ancestors were passed down the line and it there ever since

[@saturninoestoquejr.7134]

The Filipinos were and have always been smarter than the Chinese. They are also have outstanding goord morals and characters.

[@saturninoestoquejr.7134]

The Chinese in the olden times will do anything for money. Including leading one to addiction.

[@freneticness6927]

Yeah the spanish only had enslaved native americans working in gold and silver mines thats all.

[@judebaber5695]

I really enjoyed this one. I didn’t realise that we, The Brits, were responsible for this trade. I always thought the opium poppy was native to China, and the Chinese were responsible for introducing this drug to the world. Thanks for this video 🙂

[@yuluoxianjun]

lol.most sold to China opium is planted in India,JEWS buy them from Indian of UK,and sell it to China with forced gun power.

[@moosemaster96]

Same as dude, very insightful documentary 🎉

[@vinitasheorann3522]

I am an Indian living in Hong Kong. This was a fascinating piece of history mostly forgotten in the modern day world we live in. The British destroyed India beyond belief but at least Hong Kong experienced a different fate.

[@suzannejones5992]

Learning about history is an essential, imo. It helps you see what is happening in the present. The only difference between China then and Britain now is that the Chinese really tried to stop the use of narcotic drugs.

[@skunchtv]

don’t forget about the fentanyl China allow labs to ship to the US today

[@suzannejones5992]

@@skunchtv yes, this is what I am saying. Past actions impact on the present and the future. But remember the obvious culprit is not always the guilty one........

[@skunchtv]

@@suzannejones5992 history repeats itself is a distinctly western expression because we ignore history and it repeats itself 😂

[@iggy5347]

Heyyy, thanks to the British empire, the chinese learned the stock market learned how to make nuclear bombs, learned how to make car plane computer etc etc. Also china exported one the greatest asset the chinese peoples is everywhere chinatown is in every city in the western world. And also the chinese gave hongkong 150 years ago as pirates and drug trafficking to a $500 billions hong kong economy. So china still the winner at the end but with a painful experience

[@SA2004YG]

​@@iggy5347winner in the end?😂 there is no end my guy. Everyone gets a turn, china isnt the center of the world

[@threestars2164]

Can't believe how evil humanity can be!

[@mdmarcus7494]

Related to western countries over the past 200 years.

[@teacopem]

​@@mdmarcus7494it's not even that bad

[@mdmarcus7494]

@@teacopem It is if you consider many many crimes they commited against other people over the world and history speak truth im just stating facts based on that. Just go check colonialism and see who where the major players.

[@ElKafkaArtinamaKusumah]

@@mdmarcus7494 the chines was not that much better too

[@mdmarcus7494]

@@ElKafkaArtinamaKusumah No country is saint but if weight all that we could say who is heavier in terms of hideous nature.

[@crossan-uq1cd]

Whoa i learnt so much from this video. I never knew a Chinese merchant invested in America's early industries. Incredible. I'd love to visit China!

[@LeecheeChinaTour]

Welcome to travel to China and experience the rich Chinese culture Welcome to contact me directly to book travel routes to various cities

[@fs5775]

as someone who lived in china for 2 years, no you don't

[@crossan-uq1cd]

@@fs5775 don't be such a sourpuss

[@TheGiraffeJustin]

I wouldn't say the Qing Dynasty was China's greatest empire except in terms of total area controlled. The Tang Dynasty would be more appropriate as a golden dynasty

[@dudubunny]

Exactly, the Qing dynasty was one of the most humiliating dynasties for the Chinese people, because the Manchu people invaded Ming China and enslaved (most importantly, mentally and educationally) Han Chinese.

[@user-qwertyuiopasdfghj]

That’s what most Chinese would agree. Qing is big but not a glory for Chinese. And Yuan is not even considered a Chinese dynasty by many

[@in4ser]

@@user-qwertyuiopasdfghj "Han Chinese Dynasty." China is a nation not a single ethnic group.

[@MSA-209-n8o]

@@dudubunny 但满族人也被汉族人所同化，现在极大多数满族人都和汉族人差不多了

[@dudubunny]

@@MSA-209-n8o 但是他们把汉文化毁的很严重，愚民教育假借编四库全书篡改书籍、毁坏书籍，致使科技文化倒退，奴才教育。

[@Error_-qz2zr]

"tea takes hold rapidly its an addictive drug" lmao dude said it like its heroin

[@travelinman790]

Apparently, you've never had tea 🍵 before...

[@Error_-qz2zr]

@@travelinman790 no i never tried tea or a caffeine drink my whole life, i live in a cave,we dont have coffee beans and tea leaves here

[@arddermout6946]

​@@Error_-qz2zrwho needs tea when you have H

[@AB-wf8ek]

For real, most Americans wouldn't drink Chinese tea if you paid them

[@Error_-qz2zr]

@@AB-wf8ek "Tea is an addictive drug" American sips from his sugary Starbucks

[@YogiMcCaw]

Nice doc done in that old-school classic documentary style. I like watching this kind of stuff.

[@zenzen272]

This clearly explained the culture of the western society and the eastern society. In the current era, has this been repeated ?

[@robinbreeds9217]

The British Empire was not of the British The rise and fall of the opium-fueled Sassoon dynasty, the ‘Rothschilds of the East’ In ‘Sassoon,’ Prof. Joseph Sassoon tells how his distant family of Baghdadi Jews fled to India and built an empire on the legal narcotics trade, hobnobbing with the British royals They established a global business empire that stretched across three continents, and became friends and confidants of Britain’s aristocracy and royal family. But the Sassoon dynasty, which made its millions as traders in opium, cotton, tea and silk, stemmed not from London, Paris or New York - but Baghdad. The family’s meteoric rise and equally dramatic fall is told in gripping yet meticulous detail by history professor Joseph Sassoon in his new book “The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire.” (A Hebrew edition will follow in June.) It’s not simply a tale of refugees who came to be known as the “Rothschilds of the East,” but also of bitter family disputes, trailblazing female pioneers and a legacy carelessly squandered. “Think ‘Succession’ with yarmulkes,” as the New York Times recently put it. The story begins with David, the dynasty’s founding father, escaping Ottoman Baghdad for Iran in the late 1820s. The son of Sheikh Sassoon ben Saleh, a long-serving former chief treasurer to the city’s pashas, David had been threatened and held hostage by Baghdad’s notoriously greedy and rapacious governor. When the aging Sheikh, once “the most eminent Jew in Baghdad,” joined him soon after, it capped a remarkable fall from grace for the family. For Joseph Sassoon, the story of their exile from Baghdad - one echoed by his own family fleeing the Iraqi capital during Saddam Hussein’s brutal rule - sparked a connection to his distant relatives. “That sense of looking for security, longevity and stability is so ingrained in anyone who was a refugee,” he tells The Times of Israel.

[@DiabolikalFollikles]

This docu is jam-packed with info. I had to watch it twice *and* take notes. Well done indeed. 📚

[@JakeTardcum]

This is the most surface level midwit tier documentary lol

[@audreyricci6383]

​@@JakeTardcumSpoken like a true ignoramus.

[@JakeTardcum]

@@audreyricci6383 stay mad, brainlet

[@Sly_cptn]

Lol

[@xiongfeichen316]

Today, China is one of the countries with the strictest ban on drug trade, because a country cannot fall twice on one thing.

[@oneshothunter9877]

@@JB-lp9xr They don't export fentanyl. They export the chemicals that fentanyl is made of. Supposedly knowing what they will be used for, of course. Sweet revenge. 😎

[@anandasmom]

@@JB-lp9xr maybe that's exactly why its being done .... revenge.

[@xiongfeichen316]

@@JB-lp9xr It's really interesting that the most powerful country on earth has the most powerful economy, military, and of course the most powerful media. He blames China, from across the Pacific, for his inaction on the drug epidemic. Maybe it’s because of such strong propaganda ability that so many people believe it. It’s really ridiculous.

[@bruceliu9436]

better target at britisch, haha@@anandasmom

[@LightningDoesStrikeThrice]

Funny how thier manufacturing fentanyl then through trade & funding the cartels huh!? Like the CCP doesn't know or can stop it but they don't seeing as China has OPENLY admitted to be at war with the U.S but of course you live in your American hug box don't you & only America can be bad & racist lol get fking real

[@thomasandersen5349]

Yesterday's Opium Wars = Today's Fentanyl Wars.

[@fitmesslife]

A certain banking family seems conspicuously absent from this doc.

[@xispaster]

Not a cristian family

[@marcuswalldesand9983]

You mean Wallenberg? Bank of England was a creation taken from the Swedish Riksbank, swedes where in the core of this construction... Eastindia was very influenced by swedish intrests and specially Wallenberg-family... Now Wallenberg is the most wealthy family in the world...

[@fitmesslife]

@@marcuswalldesand9983 The RottenChildren

[@marcuswalldesand9983]

@@fitmesslife Then you have to study more... cause the Rothchilds is not involved in this as Wallenberg-family.. They created the Bankingsystem in Europe (Sweden, England, Germany...) and their friends Warburg, Morgan was part of FED:s creation... Rothchild may been rich and powerful, but not as powerful as Wallenberg in Sweden. Modern war is about 85% information, 10% financial and 5% bombs and weapon... Wallenberg have controlled the information which MADE them in charge... Ericsson, established in 184 country, controlling the nervsystem of the world - internet, telecom.... Information! Strong conections to brother Dulles - What would CIA be without information - The Five eyes is depending on the 6th Eye - Wallenberg/Ericsson! Where ever the railroad was built in US the Ericsson cabel came with it...

[@dthundergunb3115]

Hahaha I was thinking the same thing. With them being quoted as saying "the sun never set on Britannia's holdings" they for sure had a hand in it.

[@Fastbikkel]

Very interesting material. I had some knowledge about opium trade and trade with China in general, but this certainly shed new light on the subject for me.

[@jakemocci3953]

Look up the Sassoons. The opium traders weren’t Anglo, they were jewish.

[@dznuts123]

Lol just shows you were brainwashed, if this documentary shed any kind of light.

[@SnickC13]

A new channel to endlessly stream in the background. Thanks ❤

[@zugdarr]

Unbelievable history, never knew this was how Britian originally retained Hong Kong.

[@tianhexing]

When the British pulled out of Hong Kong in 1997, they stole a trillion pounds from it to implement Thatcherism

[@cssstylescommand4]

HSBC bank was created specifically for the handling of drug money that ruined china.

[@stiofanocathmhaoil2318]

Fascinating documentary, thanks for uploading it.

[@ShaunHaddrill]

Is anyone else seeing parallels between the opium trade and the current opioid crisis in the USA? Fentanyl sounds like opium on steroids.

[@oneshothunter9877]

Chinas revenge.

[@goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320]

It's pretty clear what parallels you're alluding to. The DIFFERENCES are far more striking though 1) the American corps buy fentanyl of their own free will, they were never forced to by the end of a gun 2) China then and as now makes everything cheap. They do not need to sell you drugs, they merely make pharmaceuticals your companies profit from 3) then as now your hatred is driven by sinophobia. You know full well it's your own companies and politicians you should blame if you want to stop it from being sold. But blaming those of a different color fulfills some... Kink, innit? Funny how all of you blame china but your companies continue to sell it, they'll find alternative suppliers yet 😂

[@ShaunHaddrill]

@@goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320 valid difference between the optimum wars and the phentenyl crisis in the USA today. I don't know why you are alluding to colour of skin and racial remarks. I'm an outsider looking in at the crisis. I still think the responsibility to stop the crisis should be shared between both governments, US and Chinese, and in addition certain corporations.

[@goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320]

​@@ShaunHaddrilltypically people who bring up fentanyl have such a color of skin bias against China. If the US wanted to really stop it, all they had to do was tell their pharmaceuticals to stop selling it. There are valid medical uses of the drug, which is wild that the US would rather blame others for something that is solely under their control

[@ringabell3163]

​@@ShaunHaddrill The US crisis should be shared between the US government and the US people. Slinging mud is a common practice in the US. You see and hear it unceasingly every 4 years.

[@danieltang3985]

Forgiven but not forgotten.

[@DaRyteJuan]

Wow. This was a great documentary. 👍🏻 Never even had a clue about most of this history until watching this production.

[@wutruriding1355]

Very informative and well done documentary. Thoroughly enjoyed.

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Olympic Medals Trade Secrets

[@motsuuuu]

in all fairness, if anyone’s ever had GOOD loose tea in china, i would definitely classify it as an addiction lol 😂

[@Gaetano.94]

Same with opium. It is the nicest most beautiful scents I've ever smelled.

[@totallylegit2068]

@@Gaetano.94 stop smelling opium

[@SatSun-op9dp]

Can you name one and where to get it?

[@Gdfsandoz]

​@Gaetano.94 same with good heroin. I never did it but one of my friends loved it a bit too much but that shit smells fantastic 😂 it smells like the best flower you've ever smelled same with opium lol.

[@橙色椅子]

"Use a translator to translate the following content" 中国十大名茶的排名及其英文翻译如下： 洞庭碧螺春（Biluochun）：产于江苏省苏州市太湖的洞庭山区，色泽碧绿，形状似螺，是中国名茶中的珍品。 信阳毛尖（Xinyang Maojian）：产于河南省信阳市，以其条索细秀、香气清高、滋味鲜爽而著称。 西湖龙井（Longjing）：产于浙江省杭州市西湖区，是中国十大名茶之首，以其色绿、香郁、味甘、形美而闻名。 君山银针（Silver Needle）：产于湖南省岳阳市洞庭湖中的君山岛，全部由芽头制成，形状似针，色泽金黄光亮。 黄山毛峰（Maofeng）：产于安徽省黄山市，以其条索细扁、形似“雀舌”、色泽墨绿、油润光亮而闻名。 武夷岩茶（Wuyi Rock Tea）：产于福建省武夷山一带，是中国乌龙茶中的极品，以其独特的“岩韵”著称。 祁门红茶（Keemun Black Tea）：产于安徽省祁门县，以其外形条索紧细、色泽乌润、香气清高、滋味甜醇而闻名。 都匀毛尖（Duyun Maojian）：产于贵州省黔南布依族苗族自治州都匀市，以其条索紧结、白毫显露、色泽翠绿而著称。 铁观音（Iron Guanyin）：产于福建省泉州市安溪县，是中国十大名茶之一，以其独特的香气和滋味而闻名。 六安瓜片（Liu'an Melon Seed）：产于安徽省六安市，是中国名茶中唯一无芽无梗的茶叶，其形状像瓜子，色泽宝绿，不含芽梗。​@@SatSun-op9dp

[@madaro504]

Swap Opium for coke, and silver for firearms.... Asia for Sth America .. HSBC still washing the $$

[@LynetteBishop-v9k]

❤ Reincarnation is real. It is spoken about throughout all religious texts. The teachings of reincarnation were suppressed, especially in the West. Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah. The Messiah reincarnated in 1971 to try to save humanity. Julian Assange is the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth reincarnated. Julian exposed the lies and deception of the world governments via Wikileaks. Julian also exposed the killing and destruction of the Muslim/Arabic world and its inhabitants by the Western governments. The Romans and Jews are once again attempting to crucify our Messiah, and again, our hands are tied, and we are being prevented from stopping his crucifixion. Reread the Wikileaks drops and learn about Julian, it will become very clear to you what is taking place. The war in Gaza between the Palestinians and the Zionists was predicted and exposed before it even started (and has been ongoing for many years with the help of the West). So yes, to answer the question, the second coming of Christ is happening and has been since 2012 when Julian Assange went into the Ecuadorian Embassy in the UK. The leaders of the Western world governments are collectively The Antichrists/ ad-Dajjal☯️✝️☦️☪️✡️🤲🙌

[@mchscinemaclub847]

We were made to read “dragonwings” in school but never told any of the surrounding context. This video really helps shed light on so much cultural, social and economic history to global events that are more popularly taught, at least in America.

[@raywhitehead730]

The BRITISH opium trade was The major source of income for the British Crown. And they still living of of the money it made for them.

[@joejones9520]

good

[@MARKCANEER]

Much like southern Americans still rolling in cotton Dollars from the 1800's.

[@mr.l7471]

I have always wondered what the opium war was all about, especially with my love of learning about world history, and this is coming from an American

[@thehonkening6060]

The Empire had 600k of the billion on Earth in the 1860's hooked on opium, 2/3 of the worlds pop (India and China). Makes one wonder what the Fentynal is really for?

[@pdruiz2005]

@@thehonkening6060 Fentanyl is to keep large parts of American society from getting too ornery and rebelling against their billionaire and bank overlords in NYC, served by their handmaidens in the GOP. One of their biggest handmaidens is Donald Trump, who does a fabulous job distracting voters from this huge fentanyl problem. There are some other handmaidens in the Democratic Party and among tech bros in Silicon Valley.

[@janisfok8848]

Just a conflict between empires. Emotions and feelings of nationalism, especially of the Chinese, are very fake and merely invented.

[@dogwithwigwamz.7320]

It`s nice to hear that some Americans are taking an interest in world and especially European history. It is, after all, very much a part of your own.

[@ThorPalsson]

British traded opium for tea The british intended it to be used for those experiencing extreme pain - end of life or traumatic injury But....the opium landed on harbors, and didn't move an inch - on each harbor opium dens emerged Tragic, but foreseeable consequence

[@overcraft1441]

Damn this made me shed a tear. British arrogance and violence has spread throughout the entire world even till this day in Africa, China, US, and South America

[@topsuperseven7910]

You just learned about the Qing's arrogance and then wrote the opposite. Amazing.

[@PanzerAce760]

Nothing wrong with British politics during this time period, par for the course. You are a victim of Chinese pysops and propaganda. They want a weak and self depreciating west so they can control it for its own benefit. It does nothing to think poorly of yourself and your societies except benefit a corrupt communist regime bent on the destruction of the countries that gave you the modern world and made you rich.

[@JakeTardcum]

Cope and seethe lmao

[@vettezl1]

They are more treacherous than they have ever been. Since Disraeli, the English has developed an unholy alliance with Ashkenazi Jews to continue their empire.

[@audreyricci6383]

​@@JakeTardcumReally? You sound like a proudly ignorant maroon.( Bugs Bunny pronunciation).

[@lostatsea775]

I reside in Guangzhou (Canton) and my apartment is near Niushan Gun Battery from the first Opium War on the east side of the city facing the Pearl River estuary. The fortification is now a park, but you can see the gun placements where imported German artillery were used by the Chinese to fire on the British Merchant Fleet. It's fascinating to see the history!

[@postscript5549]

Wonderfully done. Thank you very much!

[@blairhakamies4132]

Fabulous video. Congratulations. Thank you for sharing it. 👌

[@sandraberry5132]

This is a well done historical indicator of the greed of man and the evil he will do to his fellow mankind to satisfy that greed...

[@fs5775]

key word here is MAN. if women had equal power back then, I am quite sure they wouldn't be a bunch of drug dealers

[@Youalleatmuffins]

💯

[@Wibble-zv3cs]

So you’re telling me the 12 cups of tea I consume a day makes me a drug addict 😂

[@EGORLAZOUSKI]

There was a period in my life when I drank 15-20 mugs of 0.25 liters of strong green tea. This is a real addiction. Then I didn't drink at all. That is, 0.00. It was very difficult to do. But the condition of my teeth and my health in general improved significantly.

[@KeifusMathews3]

Love learning about china's culture, well done documentary .

[@alcapone9550]

Yeah ... have fun while learning the winners history 😜 Edit: Thomas SowellTV!

[@paladro]

@@alcapone9550 plenty of history gets re-written, no telling if that helps or hurts, its all about perspective.

[@4th_Disciple]

I think this was more a documentary about the blood thirsty European culture. Did we watch the same video?🙈

[@alcapone9550]

@@4th_Disciple getting slaughtered by europeans is in many countries part of the culture of those ... so you both are right ^^

[@leechaplin7902]

Go there it an amazing place and you will realise it's not the place the media talks about

[@MrCloud254]

Buddy at 4:59 really started feeling something at just the thought of tea 😂

[@FutureMythology]

An extraordinary documentary chronicling an intriguing era in history. Your gratitude is appreciated.

[@Celestial_Reach]

As a silver smith in America this still hits me. Those smiths in china making those spoons, the chinese version is higher workmanship, and cheaper labor... hard to beat them

[@tebec3624]

Another informative documentary! I hope some history teacher or college professor uses these in class. This would also help business professionals understand negotiation and strategy (never underestimate your opponent)!

[@4th_Disciple]

​@@nmdd2575East Turkistand and Tibet certainly isnt China.

[@zhanghg5080]

@@4th_Disciple I always tell this: If you are god, it's fine. But you only have keyboard, mouse and empty brain, this means nothing.

[@4th_Disciple]

@@zhanghg5080 so now the han think they are god?🤡

[@daiwanrenzhudinsiguang]

​@@nmdd2575gun

[@daiwanrenzhudinsiguang]

​@@4th_Disciplebullshit

[@robertlee5456]

Whenever I visit Hong Kong and pass by the corporate offices of Jardine Matheson, I laugh inwardly at the history behind it all. THE most successful drug dealers in history .. now acting as a perfectly legitimate business enterprise.

[@freebird1ification]

dont they all

[@naomib2334]

They don't mentioned the Sassoon family

[@avatarion]

Not really. Sugar is the most successful drug in the world.

[@Michel-Graillier-fanclub]

@@avatarion not anymore . Sugar' as glycogen exists even in liver and our body makes around 70 grams of it daily even if you dont eat it through gluconeogenesis. Phones nowadays as in smartphones and money are the new modern drugs that destroy your dopaminergic system

[@Jake-dh9qk]

They walk around in suits and pretend they are superior humans

[@iXpress]

US British then: Opium, today: democracy 😂

[@jinxu7093]

Through a glimpse of Chinese humiliating history, I suggest that everything now China is doing should be understood in some level, and you should take a reverse thinking that how kind and reliable of China, a civilized nation which experienced such catastrophic events, as they try to have a collective mind in development as opposed to colonize and exploit. From a normal friendly Chinese citizen.

[@JackTenrec-qk4zp]

China did not experience anything exceptional or unique, Empires rise and fall, wars were and are fought and they have winners and loser. Personally I don't understand why aren't we cooperating with each other but my guess is we are too tribal and egotistical for that

[@robertcezar9504]

3:47 the emperor shown in the picture is 嘉庆 (Jiaqing), not whatever the narrator said...Qianlong, perhaps...who was emperor in the 18th century, not 19th.

[@bill4572]

As a coin collector I recently purchased a 8 real coin had chop marks in it with Chinese characters on it was used for trade this was a great documentary about silver and trade

[@joshuajames1720]

Fantastic documentary, very well put together, thank you, I look forward to the next instalment!

[@Ickie71]

and all its adverts too?

[@audreyricci6383]

​@@Ickie71You obviously do not have a skip ads icon to stop the ads.

[@Ickie71]

i sure do same as everyone but that means constantly getting up off the settee and over to the PC click it and back again every sodding 4-5minutes its a damn joke now YT is kiling itself with this AD GREED@@audreyricci6383

[@rockapedra1130]

Absolutely fantastic work! Wow!

[@AM-zk7pj]

Some businesses don't count the impact of their business on their country... Such businesses are dangerous for the future health of the country

[@nghiado9895]

Please provide audible translation, so that we could listen as a podcast.

[@KILLHACAY]

Wow! Amazing documentary! It's incredible how interesting history is as we get older I think there's so much history stories tales and information it should be made into a movie is series perhaps call it the "company" i believe there's so much potential in this I'm writing a book and script on it..

[@tuzopaai]

The more I learn about British history, my resentment for the British grows even stronger.. There are basically the world’s most immoral drug cartel, most inhumane gangs, and mass murderers. Their actions throughout history reveal and cruelty that is hard to ignore. This legacy of greed and inhumanity has left deep scars on many societies around the world.

[@henrynguyen9593]

Loved it. Great work thank you.

[@jamy8575]

They did not "crave" it.. They were forced to take it as payment (balance of payments/global finance)

[@michaelh1769]

First lady Eleanor Roosevelt also made a fortune as an Opium Kingpin in china. A lot of that money then went back to the united states and went into establishing and funding of many Ivy League schools, like Harvard in the United States.

[@GavriloPewPew]

What

[@kathleenmoore4019]

Great documentary thank you for sharing.

[@silveriver9]

China is rising and will reclaim its position at the top as it held for much of the last 2000 years. It is expected to be 2-3 times bigger than the US by mid century.

[@outoffocus3272]

Those 2000 years were India's throne. China has always been the 2nd. Wikipedia yourself. Only today china is ahead of India.

[@性格丶丶]

Indians living in their own fantasy world😂​@@outoffocus3272

[@林木老寄卖]

@outoffocus3272 印度第一 印度世界第一 不管是古代印度或者现代印度 印度都是第一 开心吗？ 醒醒吧朋友

[@zuesart3627]

@@outoffocus3272 是的，印度人从宇宙大爆炸开始就是第一，喝最干净的恒河水，踩着牛粪祈祷自己是第一

[@AbdullahPunctureWale-BePgCxx]

NO. I think the future is in Africa and Australia...

[@themiddlekingdom9121]

Qing Dynasty was ruled by nomadic people so they didn't modernize their weapons, that why they lost the Opium Wars to the British. Most importantly, the Czar of Russia forced the Qing to give up many lands to them at the gunpoints that they knew the Chinese were not able to fight back right after the Chinese lost the Second Opium War against the British and the French.

[@gavinwang7886]

Manchus were not nomadic, they were fishing and hunting tribes. The biggest problem of Qing’ military is never weapons, it’s their outdated way to organize army, poor military command structure and old training methods. One thing proofs this is their incapability to defeat Japanese army in the first Sino-Japanese war. Qing soldiers have better guns than Japanese counterparts on the land but their moral collapsed and generals fled. Interal political conflicts also prevented Qing to moblize all forces they had to defeat enemies.

[@marcumexe]

Any group of persons who can create items no one else dreams about are bound to become second to none as long as they remember and never repeat the mistakes of the past..

[@scottsantana2248]

Very glad I found this Doc, loved it. So many outside China wanted Chinese goods (like the huge Japanese need for silk, for example) but the Emperor would accept silver currency only. Then opium comes into the picture and IT can be traded on the downlow for silver from Chinese black market merchants. Which then allowed the British (and others) to sort of "buy" Chinese tea and porcelain goods for opium without having to come up with the silver upfront. It was a strange situation, fascinating in its way. If Chinese Emporers weren't so averse to developing/buying firearms and cannon, the Europeans wouldn't have had such an advantage against Chinese resistance when it came to open military conflict.

[@pdruiz2005]

At 48:44. Well, that's because by 1839, when the Opium War with China exploded, the British government in effect could tax roughly around 100 million Indian peasants under the thumb of the English East India Company. That on top of the British taxpaying population made it easy for the British government to raise more revenue than the Chinese emperor and his 400 million Chinese subjects.

[@idunusegoogleplus]

Yea and easier to tax Indian colonial subjects harshly compared to taxing your own citizens who might rebel, which they eventually did.

[@iggy5347]

Heyyy, thanks to the British empire, the chinese learned the stock market learned how to make nuclear bombs, learned how to make car plane computer etc etc. Also china exported one the greatest asset the chinese peoples is everywhere chinatown is in every city in the western world. And also the chinese gave hongkong 150 years ago as pirates and drug trafficking to a $500 billions hong kong economy. So china still the winner at the end but with a painful experience

[@BebekGoreng88]

​@@iggy5347 heeey, thanks to China you westernp igs learned how to make paper, learned how to make wheelbarrow, learned how to make mold board plow, learned how to deep drilling, learned how to make gunpowder etc etc. So westernp igs resorted to banditry and still the loser at the end.

[@sabinehahn9774]

The British never liked it, to this day, if they're not revered, seems to be a tradition.

[@logTopic]

Thanks kung fu movies of the 70s-90s that taught me this indirectly.

[@NaturopathMD]

Surely we're sufficiently proficient in distinguishing British Empire from The English.

[@1084kmp]

Now you can understand the intentions of the fentanyl war….

[@mikeheisenberg288]

What goes around comes around

[@toddbowers5673]

I’m sure selling coffee was pure innocence…

[@AB-wf8ek]

I like how they portray tea as addictive. Most Americans wouldn't drink Chinese tea if you paid them.

[@enuskolada6618]

​@AB-wf8ek A German lady once sang me an old song about how coffee was this revolting, morally reprehensible, Turkish/oriental muck.

[@AB-wf8ek]

@@enuskolada6618 Yea, people like to think this country is a melting pot, but the xenophobia is real. A friend's mom once asked me if they served bugs at Chinese restaurants. In highschool, one of my brother's friends literally brought McDonald's to Chinatown when he invited a group to eat.

[@pumpthewater419]

The title should be England’s opium war.

[@yaolu3701]

As Chinese British, who grew up in commies china in early 80s and spent more of my life in Britain than in china, I’ve always been interested in finding the cultural conflicts and the different interpretations of history. For most of brits I met over the past 20 odd years, hardly anyone ever heard of opium war. My French partner knew a little more than the brits 😂 I found this documentary very well narrated, history almost cannot be completely verified, but the stories told here very much aligns with what I learnt in school. Very rarely, china and the west told the same story. I also found the tone very objective not too dismissive to neither party. I read, well only half of, a book about optimum war written by a Julia Lovell. I had to give the book up which I hated, but the author’s tone was rather condescending shaming Briton for made up excuses for war, also victim blaming china who asked for the beating. Wonder if she wrote sitting on her high horse… she also made her own thesis about the CCP used the war for propaganda. Which is true but who amongst us “peasants” aren’t subjected to propaganda of some sort? The CCP did not blame Briton like many comments here are suggesting who clearly don’t speak the language and aren’t a part of the same propaganda system. We were educated as: if you become complacent, refuse to learn and improve, you’ll get the punch, hard. The only way out of the humiliation (brought by ourselves, this is very important) is as a unity everyone study hard work hard and never be forced to surrender to a world police, ahem, ever again. The brits weren’t to blame,it was a different time, we can’t use the modern moral standard to challenge something outside of our framework. It’s like pulling down those slave trader statues, pointless tantrum. Proud to be a Chinese, proud to be a British !

[@elusiveDEVIANT]

Here we have another example of why we need to remove greed from the human condition.

[@armartin0003]

"Emperors of Qing Dynasty later on became too confident. The Emperor thought as many great emperors in Chinese history that he was the king, he was the emperor of the whole world." ~ Chinese Historians. It's fascinating to see that some things have not changed.

[@PublicRecordsGeek]

The greatest modern historical amnesia is the idea that the Opium Wars ever ended at all.

[@TheJoel28face]

52:38 beautiful transition. Big props to the editor.

[@Pou1gie1]

@52:00 Like vampires, once you let the devil in, you can't get the devil out. Their mistake was letting them have trading posts and become too comfortable, like the garden suggested.

[@AntiHolyChrist]

no the mistake was not forcing their own customs onto them after. while there.