In french, still today, the word for money is "argent", wich means silver. Now I know why. Wonderful series.

@sofiaponte7993

3 ай бұрын

It comes from Latin. In Latin money and silver had the same name, argentum

@strexpills

2 ай бұрын

in romania means also the same and its spelled argint

@LorelleCaimyth

2 ай бұрын

Same in the Irish language, Gaeilge, money is 'airgead'

@freekpluimers

2 ай бұрын

The Chinese are doing the same to the US with fentanyl as the British did to China.

@ems4884

Ай бұрын

It's Rome that led to that word. Not China.

"Being foolish and having too much wealth will increase your faults" - Lin Zexu (林則徐)

@goodgrief888

12 күн бұрын

That’s the tech wealthy in Silicon Valley

This is an amazing documentary series about a topic that's almost forgotten in modern Western societies. I do feel like it still minimized the involvement of Britain, France and Japan in the destruction of the Qing empire. It remarkably leaves out what the British did to Puyi; the last emperor of the Qing, it leaves out the Japanese invasion of China and massacres at Nanjing, Shanghai and other places.

@NazriB

5 ай бұрын

Lies again? Olympic Medals Higher Chinese

@Pepe-dq2ib

5 ай бұрын

Most of those events had nothing to do with China's silver or opium. You could have a documentary about Chinas history with manchu or mongol invasion and some chinese will complain, "why did you leave out the opium and unit 731".

@Rorschachqp

5 ай бұрын

It’s remembered in many movies.

@r2dxhate

5 ай бұрын

I agree that there has been an independent white washing of history from every perspective globally, but there's also a lot of Chinese propaganda trying to re-write history. The 9 dash line for instance. We need to be skeptical of all claims, and practice critical thinking.

@adrianseanheidmann4559

4 ай бұрын

@@NazriB Are YOU high??

So the Americans dumped the tea purchased with opium into the ocean and the Chinese dumped the opium used to buy the tea into the river. Classic.

@byakuya3603

5 ай бұрын

In fact, China’s destruction of opium was done by reacting it with caustic soda (NAOH), not by dumping it into the river, because that would cause people who drink the river water to get addicted.

@sicks6six

5 ай бұрын

Happy to have been a fish back then 😂

@adrianseanheidmann4559

4 ай бұрын

@@byakuya3603 you don't get a addicted from drinking a tad bit of opium infested water mate.

@bigboss-tl2xr

4 ай бұрын

​@@adrianseanheidmann4559Right!? You gotta drink a BIG glass every day for a few weeks....

@Rstars2o4

Ай бұрын

Yea cuz the UK was that annoying step dad who tries to tell u what to do but u end up screwing him over because in reality, he cant do a single damn thing.

Makes me wonder if China's role in the fentanyl manufacture and America's problem with fentanyl is a form of payback/learning from the past.

@sisofphil

4 ай бұрын

Bingo

@chriscarrol9373

4 ай бұрын

You just figured that out now?

@philiprobinson3160

4 ай бұрын

@@chriscarrol9373 yes!

@treedillon

4 ай бұрын

It was the raw material for manufacturing fentanyl, and exported to Mexico. As for what Americans wanted to use these, they decided. Of course, I hope they can sell the finished products directly.

@wenliu9571

4 ай бұрын

Raw materials are exported to many countries. Why is it that only Americans snack on drugs?

HSBC: Even worse than you thought.

Great documentary and with all the documentaries from this channel its a notch up on everyone else.🎉

Film production used to use up a lot of silver. Kodak went through tons per month.

Shedding light on a key factor in modern history ❤

Great series. Learned a lot. Thanks.

I learned so much, thanks for the insight. Well done.

I spent several months in china in the late eighties, my first wife was Chinese. Almost no one in the west has any idea the degree to which china today and since the 19th century have been waiting for revenge for being beaten and exploited. It’s a huge motivation in chinas rise.

@S0ulinth3machin3

5 ай бұрын

I am of Chinese descent. I do not feel that way, however, my forebears do. I agree with you. I also feel like theirs (my forebears as well as China itself) is not an enlightened outlook. Such motivations perpetuate an endless cycle of violence and revenge.

@theolich4384

5 ай бұрын

​@@S0ulinth3machin3 It's easy for the offender to preach "enlightenment", tsk, until they become the victim. The west had NOT been leading with example. Shall we not retaliate when 9/11 struck, cause violence and revenge maybe endless? Oy, there can be exception when WE do it! Boots on Ukrainian soil? Why didn't you chant Matthew 5:39 and have them turn the other cheek to the Russians, so that they can attain the enlightened outlook? FFS.

@byakuya3603

5 ай бұрын

Please don’t use hateful language to describe the Chinese people. The Chinese people regard the history from 1800 to 1950 as a “humiliating history”, which made them realize that being weak would lead to destruction and enslavement. But there is also a famous saying in China: “Because I have been rained on, I want to hold an umbrella for others”. Historically, China has never initiated a war against other countries. We should not impose the Western imperialist value of “the strong should colonize other countries” on China.

@S0ulinth3machin3

5 ай бұрын

​@@byakuya3603 no one used any hateful language. That's one of the problems with Asian face culture: any sort of criticism, no matter how mild or constructive, is seen as "hate". The reason that's an impediment is: without criticism, you don't know your weaknesses, without understanding your weaknesses, you can never improve. When I speak of Asian face culture, it's not just China. It's nearly all of Asia. The thing about needing to save face prevents its practitioners from fully recognizing reality. The reality is: no one is perfect. Human beings are flawed.

@byakuya3603

5 ай бұрын

@@S0ulinth3machin3 yes，you are really true

I like the statement about people looking at steamships and thinking they ran on fire. When people look at clouds they think they are looking at a question waiting for an answer instead of a fluid acting in a certain way, with certain colors, in a larger fluid.

A very educational video! The title is a little misleading though, i feel like this video was mostly about Chinese Silver and trade, not about Opium so much.

@lm6754

5 ай бұрын

Yes, thank you!

@HuxleyCrimson

4 ай бұрын

It is called click baiting. And it is purposefully and carefully crafted to this intent, to gain attraction. Just a wee bit deceptive, but the content is great though, so, forgiven.

@tylerpentecost9669

4 ай бұрын

​@@HuxleyCrimsonYou aren't wrong about that, but the video made a pretty compelling case that access to Chinese silver from the silver trade *was* the reason for selling opium to China. They needed a product that the Chinese would trade their silver away for, and opium is highly addictive.

@georgevivaldi

4 ай бұрын

That's the thing, the British caused a massive epidemic of heroin addiction in China just to balance their silver trade with the Qing. Just think about how callous you'd have to be to, fully aware of the consequences, shove one of the most addictive substances known down the throats of a populace. All of it to make India profitable as a colony and also balance the trade deficit.

@mohdfahmi8841

4 ай бұрын

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Brilliant presentation of Chinese history that explains why present day China remains hell-bent on modernizing itself.

@iggy5347

5 ай бұрын

No. China needs to be careful with the liberal democracy. Its creates chaos between left and right like in the US. The US is becoming china 1900 with forever war and high debt . And with US weak gov the fentanyl crisis is out of control

@snuscaboose1942

5 ай бұрын

If it was modernizing why turn to backwards to Communism? Communism always leads to corruption, ethno-Nationalism, conflict and suffering.

@natenope7258

5 ай бұрын

* and flooding us with fentanyl

@frankhill4358

5 ай бұрын

Huh?? Have you seen Shenzhen or Shanghai? China has and is modernizing itself although they do it under the Chinese system

@jnev5572

5 ай бұрын

​@@frankhill4358generational trauma is a helluva thing

The fact that we get free documentaries on KZread 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

4 ай бұрын

It's a gift.

@michaeltownsend4644

4 ай бұрын

Exactly. Haven’t bothered with tv in jonks. The quality of some of these documentaries is extraordinary!! Would be fascinating to watch a thoroughly well researched and objective documentary on the decline of Southern Africa. Sadly it is still playing out so I guess we will have to wait a little longer to see how it plays out. The rise of modern China duplicated in Africa would be good. Just don’t hold your breath.

@miraeja

4 ай бұрын

@@michaeltownsend4644absolutely!! Imagine watching tv 😂

@TheBillaro

4 ай бұрын

the fact that most of it is wrong is worrying

@mohdfahmi8841

4 ай бұрын

// ;;//;//..;;//.

Short answer is they didn’t the British just took advantage of a already large market

Chinese people have always used gold, silver and copper as currency, and iron coins have been used in some periods. The problem was that gold was so rare that copper became a supplement at first, and then copper became common and cheap, and silver became the mainstream. By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the growth of the population and the prosperity of the country led to a shortage of silver until the Qing Dynasty, when a large amount of silver was earned from trade with Western colonists, and then new problems emerged.

@kahlernygard809

3 күн бұрын

Exactly the problems had to do with silver being exchanged for opium not that opium was causing a moral panic. An advisor to the emperor wanted to kill everyone who used opium.

This is one of the finest documentaries in this space. Many others cover the Opium Wars and aftermath but the discussion here of the eye-watering amounts of the reparations, the predation by western powers and Japan is astounding. This subject deserves to be better known.

@Phyto.

5 ай бұрын

The previous part of this docuseries dealt with the opium wars.

@AnhNguyen-hn9vj

4 ай бұрын

It is one gigantic drug cartel spread to many western powers. The most scary thing is they have infiltrate the government and the military. Just scary to think how big this cartel is in modern day. I think there is a reason why Japan attack the American harbor. The drug cartel in America may want to interfere with the Japanese occupation in China. There is why u keep hearing on the news about American interest. No body knows for sure if it is the drug cartel interest.

@butterflystampede1945

3 ай бұрын

We know enough about how you treat anyone who is not Han chinese

@dtbetter2277

2 ай бұрын

China how not even gotten .01 back from what was stolen from her by Japan and the Western Powers...dangerous time now in the SCS and Taiwan straits....

The British forced Indian farmers of Bengal to abandon their traditional farming and produce opium. This resulted in severe financial losses and loss of food products in India. The opium was sold in China by the British...the original drug-runners.

@russcooke5671

18 сағат бұрын

That how the so called ROYAL FAMILY Got so rich. Drug peddlers destroying millions of lives. The Chinese are getting even now though. Fentenyl is destroying America.

Another brilliant episode. It is no wonder that China views the West with suspicion..

@bibsp3556

5 ай бұрын

Not as much as China views the Chinese with suspicion

@timothy2935

5 ай бұрын

"Jealousy " there fixed it

@Happy_Spatula

5 ай бұрын

Recent history shows very citizen views its government with suspicion @bibsp3556

@ireneusjustinpolicarp8628

5 ай бұрын

@@timothy2935 Too tame. Let’s go with envy.

@jackychen5578

5 ай бұрын

中国对中国人抱有怀疑？什么意思@@bibsp3556

In every chinese household they're reminded of the 8 allied nations stealing and invading China lest they forget

@Chunkballfairy

4 ай бұрын

I hope they are also reminded of Chinese stealing and invading Korea Korea and a dozen other countries for 300 years prior to this. The Chinese were not peaceful victims they were big bullies that met a bigger bully

@atodaso1668

3 ай бұрын

But they are not taught about Tiananmen square where the army massacred protesting students.

@here_we_go_again2571

3 ай бұрын

@@atodaso1668 Exactly! Mao is still lionized Xi appears to be trying to imitate him.

@dtbetter2277

2 ай бұрын

@@atodaso1668 CIA....don't be naive...it's been the play book of the west...since the Spanish and UK colonization of the world...blame the CIA agents in using the students and in turn they are the murders in Tiananmen sq.

@Rav01508

Ай бұрын

​@@atodaso1668 did they tell u about the failed CIA operation to overthrow govts and flase flag operation???

This is just 1 of the many reasons China has rapidly modernised its military.

@johngammon963

8 күн бұрын

Their army is ineffective and undisciplined plus their leaders are hypocrites.

My dad was addicted to opium at China when he ran out of money he committed suicide .

China wanted silver for their tea. The British said "no, we're going to introduce an addiction which will allow us to trade opium for tea.

Very well produced documentary. I really appreciate voice-over translation when someone speaks a different language. It helps greatly with maintaining the flow and consistency, and allows one to not have to read the spoken words in a video... I wish this video had incorporated that.

@Alphoric

5 ай бұрын

Ok 👍 this is KZread that’s not a possibility and that just costs money. Not everything in this world is designed for you

@Phyto.

5 ай бұрын

Most American comment I've read in ages. Just say you are too lazy to read and get on with it.

@bill4056

5 ай бұрын

It gives more credibility to this video if the person interviewed speak what she said originally

@ericmunene8521

4 ай бұрын

It really helps for those who listen to these educational movies while working.

Hey guys, I absolutely love this series of documemtaries and I noticed that parts of the movie "The Opium War" are used. There also seems to be another movie about the second opium war used in this documentary but I cannot find it. Do any of you know what this other movie is called and where I could watch it? Thanks in advance :)

"Love of money is a root of all evil."

The silver part was extraordinary

My Mother's family [the Harringtons] as a Upperclass family made one of their financial killings during the Opium Wars!

The Brits couldn’t conquer china though, they got India, but not old china.

@nicholacousins8563

Ай бұрын

Got the tea though

@senje4062

6 күн бұрын

Had the Mughals continued their reign in India, Brits would not get even India.

Awesome video! Thank you!

Send this documentary to the state department

I didn't know how wealthy Chinese traders were at the time. Probably the richest people in the world. They were worldly wise too, funding and transferring cheap Chinese labour to the US to build the railway network.

Man, I love this channel. The documentaries are so damn good.

@SCORPIUSANCTUM

5 ай бұрын

Agreed!

These are exquisitely produced documentaries on a fascinating time in History. However they shape the narrative so it is not very clear to what extent colonialism harmed people in India and China. In stark terms over the period 1769 - 1945 over a 100million people in India died from famines caused by colonial food export systems.

Fun fact :The Opium Wars primarily involved British trade with China, However the British did play a significant role in the Indian tea trade. In the 19th century, the British East India Company controlled India and sought to establish a profitable tea industry. They promoted tea cultivation in India as an alternative to Chinese tea, which had become expensive due to increased demand.

@phouance2673

5 ай бұрын

just like today US want to trans the supply chain to india😅

@roro4787

5 ай бұрын

@@phouance2673 I hope India and China work together to solve problems than repeating history

@bill4056

5 ай бұрын

And India's pm Modi is becoming a puppet again of the BRITISH.History repeat itself.

@r2dxhate

5 ай бұрын

There was also more than one East India Trading Company.

@bill4056

5 ай бұрын

The owner of Hongkong and Shanghai Bank is also British, an Original owners of OPIUM. One of the Surname is Forbes, They are billionaires now because of the opium they had sold to chinese.

The British can be blamed for a lot, but don‘t mention😮

@saintadolf5639

Ай бұрын

The Sassoon family? Those who actually controlled the opium trade and made an enormous fortune from it? The same Sassoon family that only permitted jews to work for them in the opium trade? Isn't it strange how the British are always blamed for the opium trade...but they were not permitted into the opium trade because they were not jewish.

@tarakabuddha

Ай бұрын

Same goes for Turkey

@aldozilli1293

Ай бұрын

Emotional damage

@TheMrkcl

27 күн бұрын

​@@tarakabuddha reason?

@DEMONIKMINION

27 күн бұрын

@@saintadolf5639 Everything is Britains fault according to the clown who spew this crooked BS.

Unfortunately the one with the bigger stick wins

I enjoyed the first forty minutes of this podcast. I will return to see more of this interesting and educational video. Thank you.

@bill4056

5 ай бұрын

I subscribed to this Channel absolute History. Ni e video

Can anyone inform if the lord Elgin that burned the summer palace was the same that destroyed the Parthenon in Greece?

@Untapped8819

4 ай бұрын

The one that took the marbles from the Parthenon was the father of the one who destroyed the summer palace.... family tradition maybe?? 😬😳

Unexpected Wilhelm scream at 24:55 🤣

@markshaw270

Ай бұрын

Yes I heard that too 😂

Great information

Elgin’s family is also associated with theft of marble statuary of the Parthenon.

@maralfniqle5092

5 ай бұрын

They plundered every country they went into

@revolutionaryhamburger

5 ай бұрын

Not just Elgin. In 1687, during the Venetian siege of the Acropolis, Moslem Turks were using the pagan Parthenon as a store for gunpowder. This was ignited. The explosion blew out the heart of the building, destroying the roof, shattering the statuary and pulverizing parts of the walls and knocking down the colonnade. Wonder what was left to loot.

@martinphilip8998

5 ай бұрын

@@revolutionaryhamburger When you watch the British version of Antiques Roadshow they will sometimes analyze something they found in the garden. Sometimes this is loot from the destruction of the summer palace. The French had the dirtiest hands in this attack on culture.

China being synonymous with quality silver feels just so weird

America & Europe hasn't changed. Their attitude "what's yours is mine, & what's mine stays mine".

Riveting. Loved it.

Ahh British hostility--a tale as old as time

@paulomartins1008

5 ай бұрын

The brits aren't as old as time... lmao

@Ashley-vs8nu

5 ай бұрын

​@@paulomartins1008 nuance is an art

@gregbors8364

5 ай бұрын

“Now let’s all honor the men who died to keep China British.” - John Cleese, “The Meaning of Life”

@rapier1954

5 ай бұрын

@@Ashley-vs8nu Quit trying to sound smart people like you the way you are.

@iainreid6292

5 ай бұрын

@@rapier1954 Shut it Yank.

Moral corruption is the heart of weakness

Dang. Fascinating 3 part series! Learned more listening (at work) then I ever did and in school

@DEMONIKMINION

27 күн бұрын

LOL, learn more BS, well done fool.

The shipping company was P&O

"Any goods that the West had except one: Opium" Not entirely. The major source of the drug was a cartle of savage drug dealers from India, a certain Tata. Drugdealing made Tata so rich that they still form the biggest conglomerate in India and their role is measured in percent of total GDP.

Slightly mis-listed as it’s more about China and its reliance on the Silver Standard, although it does cover the basics of the Opium Wars. It is very insightful for us westerners. And good to see history other that WWI and WWII (not that I’m totally against such content, but it’s good to find wider content).

Empires of silver....as I'm in the middle of reading RF Kuang's Babel, this title brings the chills

It was disgusting what they did to the Chinese. I remember learning this at school.

@liamburns8554

25 күн бұрын

Don’t worry China have made up for it in the last 70 years 👌

I would highly recommend everyone to check out Kings and General podcast, they covered this period and a deeper dive. This is wonderful!

3000 to set fire to 1 palace? That's nuts

I love this series.

My teacher was right, history is the mother of the future 🙈. Never the same, but similarity is astonishing...

Little or nothing to do with the Opium trade and what there is , is according to Chinese historians. Can't wait until the next production " Why did Britain get the World Addicted to Tobacco " or " Why did Britain get the World Addicted to Railways " , then " Why did Britain get the World Addicted to International Trade " perhaps ?

@cherchuhaikieu4328

22 күн бұрын

Why…? Answer: MONEY.

14:17 That air looks so disgusting. So much smog.

The documentary was correctly directed with additional facts i was unaware. Yes, the British modernized chinese harbors and organization but all of this work wasn't done to benefit china. All of the work done by western powers was concentrated around chinas ports in order to streamline the flow of opium into China. Yes silver and tea was a major influence for profits but a kilograms of opium bought in India for 10 pounds would be worth 10k pounds once it reached the chinese coastline. Britain was the first Narco state.

@Taporeee

2 күн бұрын

Yes

Just listen to the Brit. He said 'why should Britian be restricted in trade with China. Excuse me, what kind of entitlement is that? What gives Brits the right to trade with China in the first place? China can trade with whom they want, how they want Because they had the goods. That's how business works, they had the leverage.

@theodorekorehonen

5 ай бұрын

It seems the brits had the leverage in the end though, no?

@rusticbox9908

5 ай бұрын

The Brits were the bullies of the day, now they've merely been replaced by someone stronger.

@HDsharp

5 ай бұрын

@@theodorekorehonen As usual by warmongering. Once a thief always a thief.

@bibsp3556

5 ай бұрын

Loks like they didn't have a big enough lever after all.

@HDsharp

5 ай бұрын

@@bibsp3556 That's not the point. The point is the Brits couldn't afford to buy tea, they should have shopped at Poundland!😂

You already uploaded this video with a different title?

Terrific ! Thank you. …

Summer palace destruction was very bad.

Amazing how a handful of people can drive history; always has been the case.

@fredm.2699

3 ай бұрын

Now do you see why when people say Jews run the world it’s anti semiotic? Why? Because none of the people mentioned here are Jews. Anyone can rule the world if they care to work that hard.

You know being able to print dollars is infinitely better.

@UnimportantAcc

5 ай бұрын

Having the entire world reliant on your own made-up currency certainly has its benefits 😌

Excellent storytelling.

Can someone please link me to the sequal?

Mans on the left in the thumbnail looks like Mr Bean. Good luck unseeing it.

Man I myself I’m addicted to opium , shout out carti

@Alsatiagent

5 ай бұрын

It's a lot less destructive than synthetic heroin. Highly addictive, yes, but not nearly as dangerous as fentanyl or oxy.

@SEDATEDSlothRecords6083

5 ай бұрын

Im self recovering from firstly oxy and now have morphin to supplement which is much better. Having traditional opium more available would be nice. But Im quiting it slowly by now

@colleenpeck6347

4 ай бұрын

​@@SEDATEDSlothRecords6083 Morphine is addictive also. Try Tramadol it isn't addictive when taken AS DIRECTED!

@bigboss-tl2xr

4 ай бұрын

​@@SEDATEDSlothRecords6083Easy to grow🤷🏼‍♂️

A very educational video

TOPCON is going to use a huge amount of silver in its next generation solar panels and probably why physical silver prices are being depressed. Fabulous story about the centrality of silver in civilizations rises and falls and to be continued.

An example of how the brita of that time just had to take and take and take, looting and pillaging. And the artifacts? Of course, STILL in a british museum… not the first countey they did this to. How luch India property is in Brit museums. “We’re saving it from themselves..” i’v heard. It’s THEIRS to do with what they please.

@atodaso1668

3 ай бұрын

Are you aware that all Tiananmen square murals and memorials have been removed in China? They have made it so it was like it never happened, the kids are not taught about it in school anymore. I worked with a guy that was there when the army opened fire into crowds of students. Are you aware how many historical items have been destroyed? All it takes is a new group to rise up and destroy all the artifacts, it happens still to this day.

@V-if4qu

2 ай бұрын

Keep crying😂

@scottnorris3437

Ай бұрын

Funny how this crook suddenly care about human right and democracy.

Interesting how literally none of this is taught in US history.

@but_at_what_cost

5 ай бұрын

所以不奇怪，当犹太人觉得全世界都欠他们的时候，中国人只会想你们的苦难根本排不上号。

@efnefgedhg139

4 ай бұрын

in white people history.

@adrianseanheidmann4559

4 ай бұрын

We learn like a tiny bit about it in German history classes, but just because Germny had the Tsingtao colony.

@Chunkballfairy

4 ай бұрын

@@but_at_what_costit’s hilarious how we’re supposed to feel bad for china because they got colonized while ignoring the fact that they were colonizing Korea , Taiwan, Myanmar and Tibet like they got a taste of their own medicine and now we should all be sad.

@enilacenilac6168

4 ай бұрын

Too young you only focus on USA😅

In every setback, there is a valuable lesson to be learnt.

Great documentary, but good grief, the air in some of those cities looks downright hard to breathe.

@DEMONIKMINION

27 күн бұрын

Suppose thats Britains fault too if you ask these cretins.

her very last words- "those who cannot learn from the story of silver will forced to pay the price" YES! The run-up in silver and gold has begun and it will make 76'-80' look very tame in comparison.

And of course it won't be a history video without a hidden Wilhelm scream

This is the number one reason why in Southeast Asia the war on drugs looks very different than its western counterpart.

November 2010 - David Cameron and his entourage visit China. It was Britain's time of rememberance during which Poppy's are worn to commemorate the dead of WWII. They were asked to reconsider wearing such a symbol given Britain's history with china, the response was: *"We informed them that they mean a great deal to us and we would be wearing them all the same,"* British officials then wore the symbol of their crimes against China IN China walking alongside the Nations Premier and attending diplomatic meetings. Never forget China, they themselves will not.

And that is Why we have a FENTANYL problem. Exactly this. China never forgets.

@HDsharp

5 ай бұрын

That's nonsense. China isn't pushing no illegal drugs. It's the cartels that's shipping them to the US. China just produces them. If they don't, India will be the only produces.

@wolfu597

5 ай бұрын

If that's the case, why is it directed at the US, and not Britain? US involvement in the opium trade was much smaller than that of the Britain, so shouldn't it be directed towards the UK? Also in 2020, China unleashed a virus that killed 6 million world wide, while causing immense economic damage, not just to the Western countries, but even more so at home. The world will never forget the crimes of the CCP.

@threewishes777

5 ай бұрын

It kills 100k people in usa? Out of 331 million Americans

@Crew2.Hellcats

5 ай бұрын

Holly shit U right there

@joedirt3449

5 ай бұрын

They love you long time

China has never forgotten this period in history when it was bullied by the West and its sovereignty was trampled on. Scholars would argue that’s part of the reason why China has risen to world superpower status in such a short amount of time.

@BradleyLoomis-wq9yf

2 ай бұрын

Better believe it!!..it's truth!!!

It’s wrong to say ‘Britain’ sought to get ‘China’ hooked on opium. The early colonialists were not government employees but traders. The East India Company was a private company, tiny in comparison to China. The East India Company was successful beyond its wildest dreams but just a trading operation, albeit that it acquired a private army after being attacked by the French colonial operation. But like Japan, the Chinese Emperor preferred isolationism. Yet the British were in the vanguard of a global movement towards global trading. The British like tea, which came from China. As China then refused to trade any longer, a British tea merchant, Twining, crept over the border and stole some tea plants, which he brought back to plant in India - and he wound up getting only black tea, which we now prefer. The East India Company was nationalised in 1857, a time when the British government was becoming concerned over the activities of its subjects overseas, and the implications, after putting down the Indian Mutiny. But the British Government took a moral and ethical view, where the East India Company was only interested in profiteering. This ultimately lead Britain to lose India, as it began to interfere in local Indian customs of the era the British found unacceptable, like Suttee, the habit Indian noblemen had of burning their wives when they died, on their own funeral pyre (look it up). You’re not dealing with saints here - neither with the Chinese. The British Empire was importing Western values into an orient that had a very different social setup to our own. Clashes were inevitable. There is nothing wrong, however, in international trading. It is the lifeblood of the global economy and source of all our shared affluence and wealth today. I would argue rather that it is immoral - and unsustainable - to refuse to trade, as did China and Japan, as it holds back the whole world. Back then, Chinese peasants ate no meat and could not even afford a candle. Today they’re driving around in EV’s and living in high rise buildings with all the modern accoutrements. So who was right: the Emperor or the Colonialists? Indigent poverty for 95% of the population, or relative universal affluence?

@sanzesekai5453

26 күн бұрын

What if the UK destroyed a large cache of heroin belonging to a Mexican drug lord. So is it justified for the Mexican government to attack British territory in an attempt to legalize the drug trade? This is quite ridiculous. Global trade should be mutually beneficial, but Western countries have taken away most of it, not to mention colonial trade. A large number of farmers in the colonized countries went bankrupt, and starvation and death were rampant. Look at the people of Africa and what colonial trade brought. Of all the world's populations, few have achieved national prosperity by dealing with the greedy West.

21:28 Sheesh .. Look at the smog

Bet they never covered this story in their schools, huh?🤣

@DEMONIKMINION

27 күн бұрын

Because it's exactly that, a STORY.

China was making the Brits pay for tea with silver, instead of having a reciprocal trade of goods. Tea import barons wanted to keep their silver. So they flooded China with opium from their lucrative poppy fields, located in colonial India ~ so the rigid societal control of China would fail, to the British advantage.

@loneranger9376

5 ай бұрын

what happened when the Chinese tried to stop the import of opium?

@karabelle67

5 ай бұрын

​​@@loneranger9376the First and Second Opium wars.

@HDsharp

5 ай бұрын

Because Britain had nothing the Chinese wanted! If you can't convince another country to accept your goods, it's the fault of your sales diplomats not the fault of the Chinese. China didn't force UK to buy tea from them. No one forced the British to trade with China, the British opted to trade with China themselves. China would of remained dominant with or without British trade. So The Chinese was in a position to call the shots. If you then decide to smuggle illegal goods and become illegal drug pushers then that's what you are! And live with a legacy that the British empire was built from the profits derived from importing illegal drugs to China.

@g.d.2059

5 ай бұрын

​@@loneranger9376..... It literally tells you what happens in the the first 5 min...

@iggy5347

5 ай бұрын

Thanks to the opium war today china is learning from history, china is opening up to foreign trades,build strong military today with nukes and now sending fentanyl to the US and earns $1 trillions a years. And chinese is everywhere in the western world so thanks to the british empire opened up china by force. Meanwhile the british handed back $500 billions hongkong economy after 150 years (hongkong used to be pirate and criminals infested). Portugal handed back $200 billions macau to china, tibet had returned to china from the british and xinjiang returned to china as well from the anglo french empire. ONLY 1 LEFT GUYS WHICH IS TAIWAN FROM THE USA

History can be very infuriating, but still beautiful. To be worthy of the gift of that knowledge passed down through generations by sacrifices and struggle, one needs to suspend judgement and see its splendor by not taking it personally, which is already a way to obscure it. History is reality beyond the individual.

And now they are returning the favor with fentanyl 😳

People in Qing Dynasty also grow opium. People believed that this is a kind of medicine.

@FlyingHands994

5 ай бұрын

yeah and religion was influenced from psychedelics too so

@bibsp3556

5 ай бұрын

I mean, it's not a medicine, but a painkiller.

@aldenteh9412

5 ай бұрын

Back then these things are strictly controlled. That's why not many people know about it, only certified doctors and herbalists knows. The British empire brought opium to the market, hence starting an opium addiction outbreak among the people.

@but_at_what_cost

5 ай бұрын

你说的是人话吗？当清朝政府开始禁止鸦片，结果是鸦片战争和割让香港。

@bigboss-tl2xr

4 ай бұрын

It absolutely IS a medicine.

Now i understand why the West was fermenting troubles inside Hong kong.

@atodaso1668

3 ай бұрын

Free Hong Kong

@user-yq3kb4rt3l

3 ай бұрын

Hk is free now. No More trash can rule like a master race @@atodaso1668

What is not commonly discussed in regards to the fall of ancient Rome and the classical Mediterranean more broadly was that the Mediterranean was a civilization of silver. When the silver first in western Asia and then in southern Europe were exhausted and the Roman Principate blew through much of the inherited stock of silver with its bloated military apparatus and (ironically) appetite for luxury goods from China, there was no longer the ability to reliably pay large armies, easily trade and convert different sorts of goods across continents with a universal token of value, or levy regular taxes. Then you had the Crisis of the Third Century, and then the totalitarian police states of Diocletian and Constantine, and it only kept getting worse.

Inefficient markets are a problem for people participating in those markets. Inefficient means of exchange is critical

I find it astounding what a huge impact we Brits had around the planet because when you travel and see how huge other places are and get some perspective of just how tiny England is and then try imagine how we went to these vast continents and countries back when you could only get a few ppl onto a wooden ship and were able to challenge and dominate these huge civilizations seems insane ! Im pretty much halfway up England in Hull and I could drive for 4/5 hrs in any direction and fall off the edge We are tiny in world terms and it baffles me how we even did any of this just in China alone let alone India and the continent of Africa because no matter how good your ships are and technology when push comes to shove you still have to back and threats up with force and it's not like we had hundreds of millions of ppl at any point in history

@soupgod1448

4 ай бұрын

Yes and how you managed to cause genocides worldwide, sale of human beings and annihilation of hundreds of cultures, mistreatment of millions of people worldwide and caused conflicts that still exist today. How astounding indeed, you should be proud of your ancestors.

@pczonunthara

4 ай бұрын

Everywhere you so called Brits go, its always destruction and exploitation for your gain!

@Phlegethon

4 ай бұрын

Yes but you’re just a tiny island now

@nuo.not1033

3 ай бұрын

China has a history of 5000 years, peace time is less than 200 years, our enemies are almost all from the northern nomads, so from the Qin dynasty to the Ming Dynasty China built and improved the Great Wall to keep out the bandits from the north, they did not realize the danger from the sea. In Qing China, it was the Manchu minority that ruled the Han majority, a people who grew up on horseback and didn't value naval construction or gunmaking, so when the British invaded from the sea with cross-civilisational weapons: muskets, Congreve rockets to attack the Qing army, which mostly used machetes and spears, the result was a crushing defeat.

@HULLGRAFFITI

3 ай бұрын

Sounds cliche but it is always an 'arms race' isn't it, It's crazy how much of a difference having the right tools at the right time makes. Look at Ukraine at the min with $40 single use cardboard drones taking out tanks and full trenches of guys ! Imagine seeing the damage done by longbow or muskets for the first time or seeing that first tank in WW1 rolling at you ! It must shatter confidence and word of it must tear through an army like 'Chinese whispers' getting even more terrifying with every exaggeration lol I always loved the fact that Rome had this huge empire that conquered all these scary dudes around the world but then when they tried it with the Scottish they ended up getting so much hassle that they just walled it off and called the wall the boundary to their empire @@nuo.not1033

Why make out China to be a victim of British bullying, when China also was imperialistic and the British force in the opium war was only one-tenth the size of the opposing Chinese force!!! And why no criticism of the Manchu for conquering China, something which the British didn't achieve, despite victories in the opium wars!!! People will say that the British had better weaponry. But muskets aren't enough to overcome odds of ten to one. And anybody who says that the British force had better commanders than the Chinese did are just making the Chinese look even worse. However one looks at it, China has to look at itself for losing a war that it shouldn't have lost. That is the plain, hard truth.

@HDsharp

5 ай бұрын

Are you for real? You did what you did! Forced a country (China) another civilization to trade in a banned substance when you Brits wouldn't even touch it. And why are you comparing Manchus to Britain? The invasion of Manchus was a civil war, an internal affair. They were partly Chinese. They all became Chinese in the end adopting Chinese culture. Britain is a foreign entity entirely! What the British did was an act of war!

@DEMONIKMINION

27 күн бұрын

You're on a "we hate Britain", crooked history channel.

25 күн бұрын

Because every dynasty in China has a end period aka weakest as it transition to a new dynasty wat British did was getting lucky timing the end and exploit that loophole time duration 😂 very calculated move but guess wat? Once that loophole time closes ur nack to being nothing but a barbarian 😂

Is this the same Lord Elgin who stole the marble reliefs from the Parthenon?

China is using the same strategy with fentanyl 💔

@nuo.not1033

3 ай бұрын

Modern people are not stupid Qing Dynasty people, everyone knows what fentanyl can do, but why do they buy it? By the way, the US has banned the import of Chinese fentanyl, they are buying the raw material that China sells to Mexico, if the buyer has no demand, the seller can't sell the product anyway.

the Chinese were smoking and trading opium before Britain even heard about it, for thousands of years they traded with arabs who brought it from persia, they created the opium pipe for smoking cooked opium many dynasties ago. read The opium poppy historical note: Opium the poppy in China

@intothemoat

4 ай бұрын

The British made it mainstream. It was made illegal by the Chinese government

@herondesign4507

4 ай бұрын

That was just a ridiculous excuse made by the British for themselves. China has always used opium as medicine in ancient times. Raw opium was used. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Dutch merchants smoked cooked opium and introduced it to China. Chinese officials have always prohibited people from smoking it. It was not until the British smuggled opium into China that Chinese people began to smoke opium on a large scale.

@nuo.not1033

3 ай бұрын

Shameless guile, ancient China did use poppy to make medicine early, but it was the use of leaves, stems, fruits after boiling to form potions, before the UK brought opium, China did not know that the white juice inside the green fruit can become black highly toxic!

@sanzesekai5453

26 күн бұрын

Logic error: The drug dealer’s excuse is that it’s not my fault, it’s the drug addict’s addiction

@ScoopDogg

26 күн бұрын

@@herondesign4507 every country ate opium it was the Chinese who used cooked opium they boiled it then filtered it into black opium they developed the first kits why did no other country smoke it from cooked, some smoked it in a tobacco pipe, why did no other country have opium problems yet every one grew it, when the emperor banned it the Chinese still wanted it so developed ships especially for it, they couldn't grow it so started to import. everybody bought n sold it IT WAS MEDICINE. The person addicted got addicted due to famine and it stopped the pain of hunger and eased death, are you insane to think they were forced to take it and you blame dealers for making them use it ha ha WTF. they still make fentanyl to this day and try get the world hooked by making out its heroin. China caused more pollution n death by opiates in the world than any other country to this day

I learned a lot about commercials!