#203 - Babel by R. F. Kuang (Books 1 & 2)
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The Opium Wars Are on the Horizon
The opium wars is basically in order to fix that trade imbalance, the British forces China to allow them to sell opium to their citizens. And when China says no, they start a war over it. The reason why Hong Kong became a produced territory is all because England wanted to sell drugs to China in order to solve a straight imbalance. They want to make that money back by selling drugs. But yeah, so there's rumblings on that now on the horizon for those of us who know history.
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