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Re:The China tea trade was a paradox of global capitalism by enitihas on Monday May 25, 2020 @01:44PM (#23303104)
Opium was made illegal in China since 1800 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_opium_at_Humen). The government even appointed a commissioner to solve the Opium issue and the commissioner proceeded to destroy huge amounts of Opium, which was the trigger point of the Opium war.

> Chinese people definitely wanted British opium and Chinese merchants definitely wanted to sell it to them.

As in the Americans want substances banned by their federal government, and Escobar and others definitely wanted to sell it to them?

Will that justify another country dumping those in America?

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Re:The China tea trade was a paradox of global capitalism by solidsnack9000 on Monday May 25, 2020 @02:50PM (#23303695)
It's not correct to say that Chinese people didn't want things from the west, or that imperial trade policy -- restricting all trade to Canton and so forth -- was representative of a lack of interest in goods that westerners had to trade.

Opium is the obvious case.

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