Did you know the British Empire sparked a war by flooding Hong Kong with opium to fix a tea trade deficit? History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
#OpiumWar #TradeDeficit #Drugs

The #OpiumWar wasn't just about drugs. It was about #tradedeficits -- @FadhelKaboub explains. Full ep. drops Sat. 3/14 @ 8am ET. Find all our ep. @ realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese/

The Second Opium War ended on this day in 1860 with the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty forced upon China. #RandomFact #DailyFact #History #OpiumWar #ChinaHistory

#OnThisDay, 1856- The “Arrow” incident occurred when China seized the ship “Arrow” on suspicion of piracy. The British used this incident as a pretext to start the Second #OpiumWar which forcibly opened China to trade including, of course, the forced importation of opium to China by Britain.

#BOTD: Lin Zexu #林則徐 (1785–1850), whose seizure of British opium in Guangdong/Canton sparked the First #OpiumWar #鴉片戰爭 (1839–42).

I learned yesterday at a bookshop that #JulesVerne authored a #book about imperial #China entitled "Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine". It is an #adventure #travel story about a guy who tries to kill himself by hiring an #assassin, but then decides against it and has to flee. #opiumwar

#OTD 1839: Lin Zexu #林則徐 (1785–1850), Imperial Commissioner of the Qing #清 (1636–1911) seizes and destroys over 1,000 tons of @Opium from #British traders at Humen 虎門 in Canton #廣東, #China, setting the spark to the First #OpiumWar #鴉片戰爭 1839–42. #ModernChina #虎門銷菸

The Finnish President Alex Stubb is giving the US President Donald Trump a basket filled with eggs, in a very peaceful, polite, and cosy manner, outside in the nature. Both men wear fitting suits.

Trump's brutal madman style of combining his own and state businesses with the power of the US military forces can be compared to

•Britain🇬🇧's #OpiumWar against China🇨🇳, where the UK forced China to keep on buying opium from itself, threatening it with guns and navy. 2/

#BOTD (2024/08/30): Lin Zexu Lin Zexu #林則徐 (1785–1850), whose seizure of British opium in Guangdong/Canton sparked the First #OpiumWar #鴉片戰爭 (1839–42).

#OTD 1839: Lin Zexu #林則徐 (1785–1850), Imperial Commissioner of the Qing #清 (1636–1911) seizes and destroys over 1,000 tons of Opium from #British traders at Humen 虎門 in Canton #廣東, #China, setting the spark to the First #OpiumWar #鴉片戰爭 1839–42. #ModernChina #虎門銷菸