hm woops misunderstood "antecedent" The Opium Wars were fought between UK and China in 19th century
UK wanted to be able to sell opium to China. They succeeded. China had epic opiate crisis for a long time.
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That opiate crisis is what I was thinking of (but it still doesn't count as an antecedent), not the war itself
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Anyway, the opiate crisis in China was a decades-long nightmare only *really* ended by the PRC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_opium_in_China …
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...and only ended by them due to summary executions of opium smugglers
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Gin in 18th-century England. Google images for Gin Lane & Beer Alley.
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