Further hostilities broke out in the Second Opium War of 1856-58 when combined British and French forces again inflicted military defeats on China and demanded further concessions on trade.

The British forces inflicted a series of military defeats on the Chinese until 1842, when the war was ended with the Treaty ...

The Opium Wars of the mid-19th century were fought between the Western powers and the Qing dynasty, which ruled China from ...

However, the illegal fentanyl pipeline has switched from direct export into the U.S. to Mexico, where fentanyl is manufactured and then smuggled into the U.S. While synthetic opioids like fentanyl are ...

Under the initiative, police personnel visit weekly village markets and distribute chocolates in wrappers containing information about the legal repercussions of opium cultivation. RANCHI: The ...

The Chinese resisted the opium trade. This led to war, after the Chinese destroyed all the British opium in China. The Chinese army and navy were no match for the British navy. As a result of ...

On Lin’s pedestal are the words “pioneer in the war against drugs” in both English ... who confronted the British and their illegal opium trade that pushed the substance on Chinese users ...

While synthetic opiods are a relatively new class of drugs, opium has a long destructive history in trade wars and warfare, beginning with the First Opium War. In his new history, Amitav Ghosh ...