hm woops misunderstood "antecedent" The Opium Wars were fought between UK and China in 19th century
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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