PARIS: As the world reels from US President Donald Trump’s tariffs onslaught, here is a look back at some major trade wars ...

Further hostilities broke out in the Second Opium War of 1856-58 when combined British and French forces again inflicted ...

Opium was grown in British India, and smuggled into China. The Chinese resisted the opium trade. This led to war, after the Chinese destroyed all the British opium in China. The Chinese army and ...

The fentanyl epidemic in the U.S. is intensely tragic for individuals and damaging to society, but it is not without precedent. For nearly a century, widespread Chinese addiction to opium ...

The resulting Opium Wars further weakened the already struggling Qing dynasty; it was forced to lift the prohibition and legalise the opium trade. The addiction crisis in China was used by the British ...

which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, when Britain launched a military expedition to force China to open its market to Indian ...

which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, when Britain launched a military expedition to force China to open its market to Indian ...