britains parliament drudges up its resident China Expert, everyone expects him to speak against war, he just yeets out and says "naw fuck them chinese" hes mad about the threats of executing smugglers
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afterward we won favorable terms just by bringing some military technology which they had become more interested in but i wonder if chinas weakness was due to not having a civilizational concept of a "technology level" (is this possible?)
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like maybe if you spend a lot of time with consistent technology maybe you don't really consider that other things are not just "different" but "qualitatively superior" i have no idea whether this is true
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apparently the western contemporary conception of the opium war as the west just forcing opium down chinas through was an early 20C chinese nationalist propaganda effort chinese writers didnt associate it with opium until 1910
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this was actually the first case of china using western media as propaganda outlets (I do not say this critically) the drug czar was complaining to victoria about her unwillingness to help in the chinese drug warhttps://twitter.com/passacagliostro/status/1337962320555859970 …
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anyway hell of a book in the end, the layering on of a Message is working to its detriment went from liminal to superliminal at times but the history is masterfully done
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Warren Delano Jr, the grandfather of one Franklin Delano Roosevelt, made a killing smuggling opium to China and eventually became a supplier of laudanum to the US government during the Civil War.
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Imagine, a neutrality doctrine providing competitive advantage because it means you aten't running around pissing everyone off.
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Actively doing nothing: the killer strat.
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just before the war, the Brits refused to sign bonds promising not to deal opium and were ejected but the Yanks, led by FDR's grandfather, signed them
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