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Depiction of Chinese forces destroying illegally imported British opium before the First Opium War (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 month ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world

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[–] TIN@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is casting it into the fire really the best way of destroying it?!

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

One last smoke XD

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War#Crackdown_on_opium

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/NAssPedIdbk

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

How have I never seen this before? XD

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fentanyl

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

... what?

[–] Lupo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Drug naming game let's go!

PCP

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The parallels between the opium crisis in China and the fentanyl crisis in the U.S.

Looks like the Chinese learned a lot from the British.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago

China's contribution to the fentanyl crisis is pretty limited to not being willing to invest the resources into investigating and suppressing illicit production in China, not forming a policy of export of fentanyl with the intention of getting the recipient population addicted to acquire a reliably-demanded good to rectify trade imbalances.