How The Opium Trade Destroyed China’s Greatest Empire | Empires Of Silver | Absolute History
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- China's lust for silver helped establish their formidable economic position on the global stage. However, Western powers were reluctant to engage in silver trade and in their search for an alternative avenue they discovered something that would change history forever: Opium. As opium surged throughout the nation, it brought forth multifaceted societal issues, ultimately fueling the harrowing Opium Wars. These conflicts marked the onset of a devastating "Century of Humiliation" for China, leaving an indelible mark on its history and global standing
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"Tea takes hold quite rapidly. it's an addictive drug"
Sells fucking opium.
haaaa hah im deaaddd hahaa,
😂
i think now can use coffee is addictive drug - sell Coc
Ummm...what??
Oh hush up, little girl. Your race envy is getting boring. @stanlywh9796
Pablo Escobar won’t even get an Internship at the Colonial British Empire.
everyone blames the English when the 2 fellas who ran the opium company were Scots
😢absolutely CORRECT and true
It is shocking for people who respect the British to read this.Napolion too,the backward white people.
They are the reason for us Ethiopians to stay behind.
They pushed it hard. A way to control people as well.
My dad, who was an engineer, educated at Purdue, was completely wrong in his understanding of the Opium War. He believed that the British were fighting to keep the Chinese from spreading opium all over the world.I think that a great many people thought that. He graduated in 1962. I think maybe it was the propaganda of that time.
daym.. really makes you wonder about the propaganda being spread today
Using the media to brainwash is a common tactic used by warmonger governments to glorify their evil deeds. Another example is Japan. They don't know that their Japanese troops have killed tens of millions of children and innocent people in China and Southeast Asia. They even used chemical weapons against the Chinese people, just like Hitler massacred the Jews. But because Japan is under the control of the United States, all the evil deeds of the United States and Japan are covered up.
During the deadly riots in Hong Kong in 2019, ignorant parents finally discovered that their children’s schools had tarnished the history of the Opium War. The school textbooks claimed that the British government wanted to help the Chinese get rid of the opium trade, but in fact they systematically sold opium to the Chinese for the purpose of It was to colonize China in order to obtain abundant resources.
I hold a British passport and have lived in the UK for many years. No British people knew the evil committed by their ancestors. All of them firmly believe that Britain is a great country that upholds human life and freedom, and brings peace and prosperity to the world. Americans are no different, they strongly believe they are the righteous ones, others are evil.
@@SW-fy8pq such an injustice =(
I remember my mom telling me that the Opium Wars were about the noble British trying to keep opium "out" of China.
I suppose that is what she was taught in school.
oh wow....I saw another comment mentioning the same thing from his dad.
Yes, I was taught the same thing. It wasn't until just awhile ago, when watching a Sally Lockwood Mystery did I first hear and see that Victorian English were selling little white cakes of the stuff, like small white ingots with a raised crown on top. I was shocked at this revelation and had to go online looking for the truth. I thought if this was a fictitious invention, it was a whopper. Nope. Turned out to be true.
🤣🤣🤣 HSBC and Standard Chartered banks made fortunes. The British propaganda brainwashing the people....Justlike they did during covod, injections, the war in the ME, the war in UKRAINE... Nothing changes ... Greed corrupts politicians
and I was taught that the great wall of China was to keep them out of Mongolia. You can't trust them Chineses
oh wow reallly ? and they call the chinese people brainwashed by govt.
The other aspect of Opium trade by the British was that Bengal saw many famines and millions died as farmers were forced to grow opium instead of rice and other food crops.
Bi
nonsense
There were many famines before the british showed up. There is plenty of arable land in india even to this day.
British depravity knows no bounds
@@Robert-hy3vv British famine were man made.
I suppose the British will get the blame just because we did it
Ay, we apparently felled chinas greatest empire, quite an impressive feat.
Aint that logical?
@@UncleHam1337
Ain’t that the joke ?
@@technomickdocumentalist2495 Was that a joke?
What uk trading opium, yes
The opium war was one of the biggest reason why China has a super strict policy on drugs today. Our 5000 years history almost ended because of it, an empire was brought down to its knees, and we sacrificed too much to get back on our feet. This is why today, any Chinese celebrity who has touched drugs in the Chinese mainstream society is deemed unforgivable, and even weed is considered way off limits. History was a great lesson, and we hope we will never forget
…and that’s why the Chinese love liver cancer…
This will give China a huge advantage in the longrun, more and more people are becoming addicts in Western countries nowadays.
Americans: "Pass me the bong, bro!"
Well, they are giving pay back. As Nearly all fentanyl precursors come from China. These precursors are then made into fentanyl. But it doesn't stop there. Companies in China also manufacture other synthetic or man-made drugs-that make the fentanyl threat even more addictive and even more deadly
As we see on the streets of America today. Zombies.
is it also why they ship fentanyl to the us
That 3 minute intro deserves a TON of credit... I don't have an entire hour at this moment. But you SOLD me on this documentary!
So, the British were a large scale Pablo Escobar.
why 'were'? the brits and americans still control global drug trade
They made Escobar looks like small time retail merchant.😅😅😅
Always/Everywhere.
Great analogy 😅
Imagine the US stopping all import of cocaine and President Pablo Escobar of a now powerful Colombia invades the US and forces them to buy it@aikaterinimoschou9437
Still are.
i’m 38 and it took me until now to realize i actually enjoy history
History is messy and interesting, not memorizing dates in a pg version.
I read History Began in Sumer when I was 40 and have been addicted to history for over 20 years
yeah we were robbed of it in school, weren't we? what a waste they made history boring AF in the class room. it's actually very fascinating stuff.
@@raticallife1320 they did the same with Shakespeare
The older you become the more interested you become in history
The documentary was exceptionally insightful. As an American PhD student specializing in Chinese affairs, currently residing in Guangzhou, I found its portrayal of the city to be enchanting, capturing its beauty and the myriad of undisclosed intricacies within. In my scholarly opinion, Canton is indisputably a pivotal region in China. The documentary's emphasis on the impacts of the opium wars was both truthful and precise. The work done here is nothing short of tremendous.
I am from Guangzhou. I haven't been back for years (since covid). How is the economy fairing nowadays? Are you thoroughly hating the climate yet?
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We know you’re not a doctor you’re just looking up big boy words lol
The Qing dynasty was Manchu and run by Manzus. Yuan dynasty was mongol and the CCP claims it was Han.. LOL...Please help me with the lies Phd professor.
My perspective that GB used the sale of Opium to the Chinese was specifically a biological weapon to weaken that region , today is ironic that Alot of Americans are zombies because of one of the many drugs they take , and one of them is fentanyl manufactured in China ,
I find the title on the thumbnail misleading. They weren't China's Opium Wars. They were Britain's Opium Wars against China.
No, let's blame China. Like how the US flu was named the Spanish flu. And the American's call theirs the Indian Wars. It's never the white man's fault. They just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time
It's not misleading. That is the name given to these events by Historians.
It was a war, just one that was over fast.
There’s nothing more Victorian and British-square than having a mountain of Opium and giving it away for tea.
Who wouldn't like a mountain of opium?
Giving it away? They scammed china for tea with opium
"Anglo caused most of the world's problems." - David Cameron, former British Prime Minister
First taste is free
"Giving it away for tea..." - Sounds like narcissistic gas lighting...😮
At 40:35. This incorruptible Chinese official, Lin Zexu, tried his mighty best to stem the drug trade from British and American drug lords and drug traffickers in the 1830s. The Chinese are understandably proud of him, so Lin Zexu has a large statue in the middle of Chinatown in NYC commemorating his life and his sacrifices. When I used to live in Chinatown I would walk by that mighty statue of Lin Zexu practically every day. A constant reminder that the past is never dead. It's not even past.
According to Lins associate, Wei Yuan, British plenipotentiary, captain Charles Elliot, had offered early on to help find a way to end the opium smugling trade, but Lin Zexy rebuffed him. Which, according to Wei was one major mistake at that time.
One big misconception is about Lin Zexu confiscating opium from western warehouses. Which is rather incorrect. The opium was stored on ships ankered off shore, and when Lin launched his crack down, they just lifted anker and set sail for Manila, Singapore or the Dutch East Indies to wait it out. The only reason Lin was able to destroy 20 000 chests of opium at Humen, was because of Charles Elliot, who bought it from the opium dealers at market value, which they happily accepted, and then handed it over to Lin Zexu.
@@wolfu597 But then why was China ordered to pay compensation?
@@Walkthepath92 Contrary to belief, the biggest push did not come from the Opium dealers. It came from those that had nothing to do with the opium trade. When Lin Zexu launched his crack down, he effectively shut down the entire Canton trade, which affect everyone, opium dealers or not, and that lasted for weeks and weeks. As such, legal goods, worth way more than the opium that was destroyed, was left sitting on ships and in warehouses, and people who were dependent on the Canton trade for their livelihood, started losing money.
Lins predecessor Deng Tingzhen, along with the man that would succeed him, Qishan, both said to him: Don' target the foreigners.
Because many of the officials in the south, who had seen firsthand the ships, the thickness of their hulls, and their cannons, had strongly advised against pushing the foreigners too far.
They were looking for any reason.force China into a confrontation and make them into the bad guys…. And where it’s okay to keep selling China opium in return for its treasures
And seriously doubt a person like him or anyone else
Is going to believe these days,
the Chinese selling their precursor drugs for fentanyl/or fentanyl itself to Mexican Cartels that eventually make it to the USA
That the Chinese get to wash their hands of it
I remember him from history class. Intro level history course on History of Asia in university.
What an amazing documentary. Incredible quality. Thank you so much. ❤
True story!!! Mostly....
"Man's heart is decietful above all things and, desperately wicked 🤔" Poor China 😢...
Nice doc done in that old-school classic documentary style. I like watching this kind of stuff.
A great and forthright documentary. My perspective is that I was born in Hong Kong and have now lived in the UK for almost 50 years. I remember when I was a kid that we used to play around our houses and now and again we used to find tiny terracotta pots buried in the soil. These little pots were containers for opium. To this day, I am still astonished that the Victorian Britain which was supposed to be a christian and moral country would allow such an ugly trade of tea for opium. I no longer harbour any bitterness. But to many Chinese, they still have a sense of entrenched indignation and insult. Sadly this might be reflected in the mindset of the increasingly powerful Chinese ruling leadership.
China is crumbling
The Brits are very pragmatic when it comes to politics and fulfilling their interests and agenda by any means necessary, hence the great success and therefore defiantly not a Christian nation nor a moral one.
I was going to ask why you would feel any indignation over shit that happened generations ago.
But then I realized I'm gay, and feel enraged by what gay people have had to endure at the hands of Christians for years, and it kinda clicked.
People were shitty back then I guess
Blamed on Christians ? The real culprits were the Kadoorie and thhe Sassoon family. They were Jews.
@@agxryt why do you only single out Christians when Muslims throw gays off roofs in 2023? Because you’re a hypocrite
I am an Australian. My forebears were British. I grew up being told at primary school how great the British Empire was. In recent years I have been coming to terms with the Empire's crimes and corruption.
As someone who is from a country where millions of people died because of your forbears, they’re evil and probably not resting in peace
Sorry to say including the creation of your own country Australia
@@hotmess9640 Bruv really insulting people who have been dead for centuries.
The British Opium trade was headed by Jews, by the way. Specifically, the Mizrahi/Sephardic Sassoon family and their Masonic henchmen. You wouldn't know about that, because these documentaries are made in order to legitimize hatred of Christian Europeans.
@@macleanguthrie8439they hate our ancestors so much that they hate their descendants
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"Emperors of Qing Dynasty later on became too confident. The Emperor thought as many great emperors in Chinese history that he was the king, he was the emperor of the whole world." ~ Chinese Historians.
It's fascinating to see that some things have not changed.
I guess East India Company is the world's first cartel
Not even close
No but they were probably the first world wide one.
John Company was always a John Company.😂 (John Company is the Indian name for a Company of thieves. It would never keep its word to the natives always cheating them 😂)
British East India Company copied the Dutch East India Company, which had developed trade in Asia before the British.
As a kid I hated history but now it seems I can't get enough 😆
Me the same 😊
Youth is there to live. Later you reflect on the past. I guess.
always love it as a kid and now
Maybe because this is not white washed
IBN e Khuldoon said : “ ‘ ‘ history is not a catalogue of past occurrences…’”
Wow. This was a great documentary. 👍🏻 Never even had a clue about most of this history until watching this production.
Fabulous video. Congratulations. Thank you for sharing it. 👌
I am very very very disappointed that you left out the crucial fact that the Roosevelt profited from the opium trade... His name and descendant suddenly disappear from the story as soon opium is mentioned....
Yet you do mention how their Chinese friend merchant have been punished for his role in the opium trade ..
a few ivy league schools got opium money to expand their colleges. and now discriminate the entrance of meritorious chinese students,giving the privilege to descendants of a group of victims(slavery) against the descendants of victim of opium trade. what's next ? the victims of alleged WMD (irag,libya) or the victims of alleged 911 (afghanistan) also those from river to the sea victims.?
And the banking family
@@beyourself2444And white females will go wherever black males go.... 🤑🤡👍
The background music needs to be more background.
It’s crazy how North American medical industry did this to their own country.
The upper class will always do something to the lower.
Aloha from Hawai'i. You make good music🤙🏼
Yeah it's all due to policies like NAFTA the founders wouldn't have ever allowed policies like free trade to happen. That and regulations in the US mean higher prices and less profits for big pharma...they can't have that so they'll use slave labor in china's industry where there's no regulations so labor is dirt cheap but if we we're to go to war with them....then it's bye bye medication
The Sackler family did this to America
Our whole government has perpatrade this, because Joe Biden and his vengeful son Hunter, are just the tip of the icebergs, that have sold out to foreigner enemies, their just trying to speed up the depopulation train, because it's going to slow. Everything in America is upside down.. because greedy has taken over Britain got addicted to tea, so they returned the favor with optimum. Justified by greed, and has carried on more or less since it started.
A new channel to endlessly stream in the background. Thanks ❤
This has been a great documentary so far, thank you all for all the hard work and attention to detail!
I remember watching a documentary about the opium trade in China with my parents when I was hardly tall enough to sit at the table, and it always stuck with me that the emperor banned opium despite his personal use, still have that image in my head. Thank you!
A certain banking family seems conspicuously absent from this doc.
Not a cristian family
You mean Wallenberg? Bank of England was a creation taken from the Swedish Riksbank, swedes where in the core of this construction... Eastindia was very influenced by swedish intrests and specially Wallenberg-family... Now Wallenberg is the most wealthy family in the world...
@@marcuswalldesand9983 The RottenChildren
@@fitmesslife Then you have to study more... cause the Rothchilds is not involved in this as Wallenberg-family.. They created the Bankingsystem in Europe (Sweden, England, Germany...) and their friends Warburg, Morgan was part of FED:s creation... Rothchild may been rich and powerful, but not as powerful as Wallenberg in Sweden. Modern war is about 85% information, 10% financial and 5% bombs and weapon... Wallenberg have controlled the information which MADE them in charge... Ericsson, established in 184 country, controlling the nervsystem of the world - internet, telecom.... Information! Strong conections to brother Dulles - What would CIA be without information - The Five eyes is depending on the 6th Eye - Wallenberg/Ericsson! Where ever the railroad was built in US the Ericsson cabel came with it...
Hahaha I was thinking the same thing. With them being quoted as saying "the sun never set on Britannia's holdings" they for sure had a hand in it.
At 23:55. Well, the Chinese were not stupid. They had read and heard about the British conquest of India from the 1750s right on through the 1810s and 1820s. Great and powerful India--the mighty land of the Buddha and the Buddhist scriptures--was now a mere colony of the British. This rightfully made the Chinese authorities suspicious and scared that the British were aiming to set up a colony in China next.
The history of the British Empire is really quite sordid and shameful.
China is back on the World Stage to take its rightful place at the Top.🐯🐉❤❤❤
I think it’s safe to say their fears were recognized with the current mess that is Hong Kong: the mainland never had *total* jurisdiction over it until the 90s, and even after they got it the West pretty much went “if I can’t have HK, no one can” and started stirring up the youth with lies about “independence”
India is hindu…
@@outdoorscholar6016 You have got to be joking. The mainland had no jurisdiction, China ceded Hong Kong Island and Kowloon on the peninsula in perpetuity, only the New Territories were leased for 99 years. Britain founded Hong Kong city and built it from nothing to become one of the largest manufacturing economies in Asia by the end of it's time as a British Empire colony. Hong Kong was then a British Dependent Territory and Commonwealth member. In the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration the UK agreed to transfer it in 1997 and China would guarantee Hong Kong economic and political systems for 50 yrs. The agreement "triggered a wave of mass emigration as residents feared an erosion of civil rights, the rule of law, and quality of life". "Over half a million people left the territory during the peak migration period, from 1987 to 1996" . Seems they're still not happy about it now.
This was my first time watching a histroy documentry. I used to like histroy in my school days a lot then I lost touch with it. But trust me when I say that - this was truly an exceptional documentry". Thanks!!
Can't believe how evil humanity can be!
Related to western countries over the past 200 years.
@@mdmarcus7494it's not even that bad
@@teacopem It is if you consider many many crimes they commited against other people over the world and history speak truth im just stating facts based on that. Just go check colonialism and see who where the major players.
@@mdmarcus7494 the chines was not that much better too
@@user-wx2xo4ll7l No country is saint but if weight all that we could say who is heavier in terms of hideous nature.
I was so invested from start to finish! Very greatly done!
Title is horribly wrong in describing the war. It's British empire opium wars against China. Not the other way around
Unbelievable history, never knew this was how Britian originally retained Hong Kong.
The Spanish government (catholic), was always against the commercialization of opium. It even refused the idea of using the Philippines as entrepôt for the trade of Indian opium or trying to cultivate it there.
However, Fernando VII (who else?) abolished the prohibition to cultivate opium in Luzon in April 1828, but the local authorities ignored it and never supported its cultivation.
By the time of the Second Opium War, the Captain-General of the Philippines, Fernando de Norzagaray, proclaimed a general prohibition to all hispano-filipino corporations to try to trade opium for ‘health and public moral reasons’.
ever thought that opium was only real anesthetic until late 1900´s? opium was always very valuble and useful herb product... i would say that prohibition was rather immoral in fact...
@@krystofcisar469 Didn't regulateThe it enough, and also look at the drug problems now at latin America, the Philippines? It the habits of their ancestors were passed down the line and it there ever since
The Filipinos were and have always been smarter than the Chinese. They are also have outstanding goord morals and characters.
The Chinese in the olden times will do anything for money. Including leading one to addiction.
Yeah the spanish only had enslaved native americans working in gold and silver mines thats all.
Whoa i learnt so much from this video. I never knew a Chinese merchant invested in America's early industries. Incredible. I'd love to visit China!
Welcome to travel to China and experience the rich Chinese culture
Welcome to contact me directly to book travel routes to various cities
I love history, and this documentary so well made. Was invested on it to the very end
Fascinating . Thanks for uploading it.
Im American and this haiquai guy who helped fund early parts of the industrial revolution is someone ive never heard of but he sounds amazing
Basically the first corrupt Chinese official to smuggle money out of the country. Nowadays you find half of Toronto inhabited by such families. 😂
An American author by the name James Bradley has publish a book in 2019.
Tittle, The China Mirage, hope this book might help you to understand that chapter of American history in debt. BTW another very interesting history book by Jung Chang tittle: The 3 Sisters. Big sister love power, 2nd sister love money, 3rd sister love her country.
His impact would have been essentially nothing.
Fascinating documentary, thanks for uploading it.
An extraordinary documentary chronicling an intriguing era in history. Your gratitude is appreciated.
@52:00 Like vampires, once you let the devil in, you can't get the devil out. Their mistake was letting them have trading posts and become too comfortable, like the garden suggested.
The fact that we get free documentaries on CZcams by Absolute History is truly a gift.. 👏👏👏
May I also remind you the fact that our Native American population in our motherland, the Continent of America before the European Colonizers arrived, was around 15 millions, while the European population in their motherland, the Continent of Europe was around 25 millions.
Today, Native American population is 15 million, while the European population, in the Continents of America + Europe, is a staggering TWO BILLION! A shocking sad truth. 😔
In my humble opinion, it's about time to decolonize the Colonized lands, and return it to rightful owners Native American people.
Notorious global cardinal crimes the Christian West has committed, and benefited a great deals, such as Slavery & Colonialism had long been over, why on earth is notorious Colonization still lingering on, may I ask? 😔
A gift.
New encyclopedia for all....and no wasted paper
From Russia.....
Nothing from Russia is of any value so what are you selling??@@simongills2051
32:15 hard pass on the bird's nest soup and pigeons egg, Mr Qua
"tea takes hold rapidly its an addictive drug" lmao dude said it like its heroin
Apparently, you've never had tea 🍵 before...
@@travelinman790 no i never tried tea or a caffeine drink my whole life, i live in a cave,we dont have coffee beans and tea leaves here
@@Error_-qz2zrwho needs tea when you have H
For real, most Americans wouldn't drink Chinese tea if you paid them
@@AB-wf8ek "Tea is an addictive drug" American sips from his sugary Starbucks
After watching this documentary I have a great respect and compassion for China. It is indeed one of the most hurt countries in the world. Today polictics of China is to regain its honor and self-esteem. I admire this ancient country. Hats off.
Well China was also a very brutal empire, look up the Dzungar Genocide or how they oppressed the native Miao people and massacred millions of them.
@@xWHITExEAGLEx You are fabricating history
@@xWHITExEAGLEx Which BBC article told you about these things
@@orangedeer-13 BBC? It's history, there are many books on the subject.
They are also planning to conquer us.
A truly exceptional documentary on a fascinating period of history. Thank you.
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So did almost every empire in history@@andromeda45188
And just to think 200 years ago, the Jesuits boasted that 'they' already controlled China. Currently both the white & the black Popes are Jesuits, for the 1st time in history.
Shows how evil the UK has been in the past.
The Chinese would eat their prisoners of war@@revellen
in all fairness, if anyone’s ever had GOOD loose tea in china, i would definitely classify it as an addiction lol 😂
Same with opium. It is the nicest most beautiful scents I've ever smelled.
@@Gaetano.94 stop smelling opium
Can you name one and where to get it?
@Gaetano.94 same with good heroin. I never did it but one of my friends loved it a bit too much but that shit smells fantastic 😂 it smells like the best flower you've ever smelled same with opium lol.
Buddy at 4:59 really started feeling something at just the thought of tea 😂
They did not "crave" it.. They were forced to take it as payment (balance of payments/global finance)
Wonderfully done. Thank you very much!
This clearly explained the culture of the western society and the eastern society. In the current era, has this been repeated ?
The British Empire was not of the British The rise and fall of the opium-fueled Sassoon dynasty, the ‘Rothschilds of the East’
In ‘Sassoon,’ Prof. Joseph Sassoon tells how his distant family of Baghdadi Jews fled to India and built an empire on the legal narcotics trade, hobnobbing with the British royals
They established a global business empire that stretched across three continents, and became friends and confidants of Britain’s aristocracy and royal family. But the Sassoon dynasty, which made its millions as traders in opium, cotton, tea and silk, stemmed not from London, Paris or New York - but Baghdad.
The family’s meteoric rise and equally dramatic fall is told in gripping yet meticulous detail by history professor Joseph Sassoon in his new book “The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire.” (A Hebrew edition will follow in June.)
It’s not simply a tale of refugees who came to be known as the “Rothschilds of the East,” but also of bitter family disputes, trailblazing female pioneers and a legacy carelessly squandered. “Think ‘Succession’ with yarmulkes,” as the New York Times recently put it.
The story begins with David, the dynasty’s founding father, escaping Ottoman Baghdad for Iran in the late 1820s. The son of Sheikh Sassoon ben Saleh, a long-serving former chief treasurer to the city’s pashas, David had been threatened and held hostage by Baghdad’s notoriously greedy and rapacious governor. When the aging Sheikh, once “the most eminent Jew in Baghdad,” joined him soon after, it capped a remarkable fall from grace for the family.
For Joseph Sassoon, the story of their exile from Baghdad - one echoed by his own family fleeing the Iraqi capital during Saddam Hussein’s brutal rule - sparked a connection to his distant relatives. “That sense of looking for security, longevity and stability is so ingrained in anyone who was a refugee,” he tells The Times of Israel.
Wow! Amazing documentary! It's incredible how interesting history is as we get older I think there's so much history stories tales and information it should be made into a movie is series perhaps call it the "company" i believe there's so much potential in this I'm writing a book and script on it..
Some businesses don't count the impact of their business on their country... Such businesses are dangerous for the future health of the country
This docu is jam-packed with info. I had to watch it twice *and* take notes. Well done indeed. 📚
This is the most surface level midwit tier documentary lol
@@JakeTardcumSpoken like a true ignoramus.
@@audreyricci6383 stay mad, brainlet
Lol
Loved it. Great work thank you.
Please provide audible translation, so that we could listen as a podcast.
Is there a follow up program to this available here? Noticed the "Next Time..." appearing on the screen at closing....
Whenever I visit Hong Kong and pass by the corporate offices of Jardine Matheson, I laugh inwardly at the history behind it all. THE most successful drug dealers in history .. now acting as a perfectly legitimate business enterprise.
dont they all
They don't mentioned the Sassoon family
Not really. Sugar is the most successful drug in the world.
@@avatarion not anymore .
Sugar' as glycogen exists even in liver and our body makes around 70 grams of it daily even if you dont eat it through gluconeogenesis. Phones nowadays as in smartphones and money are the new modern drugs that destroy your dopaminergic system
They walk around in suits and pretend they are superior humans
Very informative and well done documentary. Thoroughly enjoyed.
Lies again? Olympic Medals Trade Secrets
This is a well done historical indicator of the greed of man and the evil he will do to his fellow mankind to satisfy that greed...
Awesome documentary, very informative.👌🏾❤️
Swap Opium for coke, and silver for firearms.... Asia for Sth America .. HSBC still washing the $$
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Great documentary thank you for sharing.
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3:47 the emperor shown in the picture is 嘉庆 (Jiaqing), not whatever the narrator said...Qianlong, perhaps...who was emperor in the 18th century, not 19th.
Very interesting material. I had some knowledge about opium trade and trade with China in general, but this certainly shed new light on the subject for me.
Look up the Sassoons. The opium traders weren’t Anglo, they were jewish.
Lol just shows you were brainwashed, if this documentary shed any kind of light.
Fantastic documentary, very well put together, thank you, I look forward to the next instalment!
and all its adverts too?
@@Ickie71You obviously do not have a skip ads icon to stop the ads.
i sure do same as everyone but that means constantly getting up off the settee and over to the PC click it and back again every sodding 4-5minutes its a damn joke now YT is kiling itself with this AD GREED@@audreyricci6383
Forgiven but not forgotten.
I just visited Weiyan Fort and took a boat ride under Humen Bridge this past November. Fun times in China.
I wouldn't say the Qing Dynasty was China's greatest empire except in terms of total area controlled. The Tang Dynasty would be more appropriate as a golden dynasty
Exactly, the Qing dynasty was one of the most humiliating dynasties for the Chinese people, because the Manchu people invaded Ming China and enslaved (most importantly, mentally and educationally) Han Chinese.
That’s what most Chinese would agree. Qing is big but not a glory for Chinese. And Yuan is not even considered a Chinese dynasty by many
@@user-qwertyuiopasdfghj "Han Chinese Dynasty." China is a nation not a single ethnic group.
Modern Chinese history (1836 - present) is one of the most fascinating periods in all of world history.
I disagree. I think ancient Chinese history is far more interesting.
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How is ancient chinese history FAR MORE INTERESTING when in the last 200 years, they just:
1. Literally cumbled by multiple imperialist movements from Europe.
2. Ended monarchy at the start of the 20th century.
3. Ended up poorer than african countries after WWII.
4. Fought brutal wars at Vietnam and Korea with minimal equipment.
5. Lifted 800 Million people from poverty in 40 years; the fastest economic growth in history of humankind.
6. Rose up to be an economic hegemon in the present that will surpass USA in a matter of a few years from now (alredy bigger by PPP)
@@yiluis1316 ummmm.. Because it is in my opinion? And China will be lucky not to crumble into tiny pieces in the next five years. It is a 1/4 of the US economy and while its rise has been dramatic, it is in deep financial trouble. Major business backed by the government, especially in the real estate sector are in bad shape. The Chinese people have the majority of their savings in that sector. They have bet the farm on our stupidity about green energy and have cornered the market on rare Earth minerals, even as we seek and are finding them. They have actually made any new technology im the last 60 years, they have stolen it-ever practical. They are destroying their own environment building new coal plants for electricity-what is it-two a week? Their wages are artificially low and prosperity has not reached the whole populace. They are guilty of slavery in the Xin Jiang province with the Uyghur population. They have no real natural resources and stuggle even today feeding their own population. And that population is geriatric and because of a fundamental refusal to mix with other races, cannot be suplemented easily. There are not enough women. The one child policy saw to that. They must have a million man army to keep all of those young and single men as busy as possible. Xi Jeng Ping has expanded his empire rapidly-especially in the realm of debt slavery in Africa and Latin America, and while welcomed by leadership-the are far from loved by the native populace who work for them. Yes of course you have a navy that is currently bigger than ours, but it is not yet capable of matching our blue water Navy. Xi is unlikely to be aware of the rot that inevitably exists at the core of every Communist system, and you can’t steal your way into being the equal of the US economy. We have our share of problems and they are big, but our flexibility makes it less likely that we would crash as hard as the CCP. Xi has I think about 4 years left to make a big move before internal problems make it impossible for China to maintain a huge presence on the worls stage. We are all headed for a big crash - as we are financially over extended and entirely too dependent on the symbiotic relationship between ourselves and China. But when was the last time China had to make a marketing trip the the US to in essence, beg US businesses to invest in China? That was new and unusual. What’s not so new is that in the last 10 years, more and more US businesses are moving out of China. Number 1 they don’t like having their technology stolen-get a load of those new copies of the Boeing jets. 2. Shipping costs are rising so high that it is becoming more feasible and economical to bring manufacturing back to this hemisphere. There are many reasons why China can claim middle kingdom status, but it will never be the power it was in Ancient times. A threat, always. And by the way, it could never have lifted itself out of gross poverty without the help and support of its major rival, and much underestimated enemy, the United States of America. And despite our current dolt of a leader China should not attempt to expand too far, nor should it attempt to take Taiwan. The battle would be bloody, but in the end the US would win.
They haven’t created any real new technology in 50 years. They just steal it.
I like the part where they invented discovery. Nothing more important than discovering things! It's very thank to them anyone can now discover things for themselves, instead of having to invent it!
To understand the whole first globalización I recommend the documentary 'Spain: The First Globalization' (English version).
Any group of persons who can create items no one else dreams about are bound to become second to none as long as they remember and never repeat the mistakes of the past..
Learning about history is an essential, imo. It helps you see what is happening in the present. The only difference between China then and Britain now is that the Chinese really tried to stop the use of narcotic drugs.
don’t forget about the fentanyl China allow labs to ship to the US today
@@skunchtv yes, this is what I am saying. Past actions impact on the present and the future. But remember the obvious culprit is not always the guilty one........
@@suzannejones5992 history repeats itself is a distinctly western expression because we ignore history and it repeats itself 😂
Heyyy, thanks to the British empire, the chinese learned the stock market learned how to make nuclear bombs, learned how to make car plane computer etc etc. Also china exported one the greatest asset the chinese peoples is everywhere chinatown is in every city in the western world. And also the chinese gave hongkong 150 years ago as pirates and drug trafficking to a $500 billions hong kong economy. So china still the winner at the end but with a painful experience
@@iggy5347winner in the end?😂 there is no end my guy. Everyone gets a turn, china isnt the center of the world
I visited Hong Kong back in the 1980's, and rode out a typhoon there. Fascinating City.
I visited Hong Kong in the 2010s, and while there ulcers killed me… so oh yeah Hong Kong is definitely a fascinating city.
This was great! Was it really released end of 2023? Good timing for me as I'm diving in to understanding the Opium Wars.
Wonderfully done documentary
This is an extrodinary piece of history brought to the light, thank you. When you understand the history, then you understand the handing back of HK to China would be one of the happiest days for the Chinese. A pity that so many Hong Kongers themselves don't understand this history.
the angloids killed all chinese whom was patriotic to the motherland when taking over hong kong, leaving only slaves and serfs, those serfs descendants are majority of the angloid bootlickers today
history is history. using history to make people accept something they dont want.
@@Mr.Sevenn007 L-ck my sph-ncter, colonial apologist.
@@Mr.Sevenn007 We don't care what you people think, it's our land.
If you got a problem, come and take it.
Bureau of Tactical Intimidation,
People's Republic of China 🇨🇳
John. It is you who do not only misunderstand, you are also ignorant to criticize the people for their reluctance for Hong Kong to be returned to communist China. That marked the beginning of death to democracy and freedom of speech and expression in Hong Kong.
Is anyone else seeing parallels between the opium trade and the current opioid crisis in the USA? Fentanyl sounds like opium on steroids.
Chinas revenge.
It's pretty clear what parallels you're alluding to. The DIFFERENCES are far more striking though
1) the American corps buy fentanyl of their own free will, they were never forced to by the end of a gun
2) China then and as now makes everything cheap. They do not need to sell you drugs, they merely make pharmaceuticals your companies profit from
3) then as now your hatred is driven by sinophobia. You know full well it's your own companies and politicians you should blame if you want to stop it from being sold. But blaming those of a different color fulfills some... Kink, innit? Funny how all of you blame china but your companies continue to sell it, they'll find alternative suppliers yet 😂
@@goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320 valid difference between the optimum wars and the phentenyl crisis in the USA today. I don't know why you are alluding to colour of skin and racial remarks. I'm an outsider looking in at the crisis. I still think the responsibility to stop the crisis should be shared between both governments, US and Chinese, and in addition certain corporations.
@@ShaunHaddrilltypically people who bring up fentanyl have such a color of skin bias against China.
If the US wanted to really stop it, all they had to do was tell their pharmaceuticals to stop selling it. There are valid medical uses of the drug, which is wild that the US would rather blame others for something that is solely under their control
@@ShaunHaddrill The US crisis should be shared between the US government and the US people. Slinging mud is a common practice in the US. You see and hear it unceasingly every 4 years.
Exceptional documentary!
What an intriguing documentary
21:00 The spoons are "virtually indinstinguishable"? What a curious thing to say when they are clearly different.
Well I think it was a compliment. The Chinese were so skilled in replicating a British good, and she was honest she did say virtually indistinguishable, that they didn’t even use. The skill was so obvious to see.
Today, China is one of the countries with the strictest ban on drug trade, because a country cannot fall twice on one thing.
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They don't export fentanyl.
They export the chemicals that fentanyl is made of. Supposedly knowing what they will be used for, of course.
Sweet revenge. 😎
@@JB-lp9xr maybe that's exactly why its being done .... revenge.
@@JB-lp9xr It's really interesting that the most powerful country on earth has the most powerful economy, military, and of course the most powerful media. He blames China, from across the Pacific, for his inaction on the drug epidemic. Maybe it’s because of such strong propaganda ability that so many people believe it. It’s really ridiculous.
better target at britisch, haha@@anandasmom
Funny how thier manufacturing fentanyl then through trade & funding the cartels huh!? Like the CCP doesn't know or can stop it but they don't seeing as China has OPENLY admitted to be at war with the U.S but of course you live in your American hug box don't you & only America can be bad & racist lol get fking real
I loved the part of this documentary that covered the Boston-Canton trade route. In Salem (of the witchcraft trials) there is a huge exhibit of a Chinese house and artifacts from the time period covered. I never got the full history of that, but now it makes so much sense
Love that stuff. Keeps me healthy.
Opium?
Interesting video
I have an antique lap desk from the 1840s that was made in Canton
Looks like a typical English one but on the bottom of the drawer has Chinese writing identifying it.
What would cost me to buy this from you?
Another informative documentary! I hope some history teacher or college professor uses these in class. This would also help business professionals understand negotiation and strategy (never underestimate your opponent)!
@@nmdd2575East Turkistand and Tibet certainly isnt China.
@@Hindu_Shahi I always tell this: If you are god, it's fine. But you only have keyboard, mouse and empty brain, this means nothing.
@@zhanghg5080 so now the han think they are god?🤡
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@@Hindu_Shahibullshit
I really enjoyed this one. I didn’t realise that we, The Brits, were responsible for this trade. I always thought the opium poppy was native to China, and the Chinese were responsible for introducing this drug to the world. Thanks for this video 🙂
lol.most sold to China opium is planted in India,JEWS buy them from Indian of UK,and sell it to China with forced gun power.
Thank you for this educational event, I grew up in HK under British occupation. I don’t recall such a history lesson was taught in the 70’s. Now a day many HK born people deny themselves as Chinese, what a joke! The greet of one country shows how horrible thing willing to do to other countries. A lesson we must remember yet it is happening again in our present time!
We should always go back in the past because the past dectates the present and the future
I'm a HK resident educated in the Colonial era! In English History lessons we were taught that the Opium War was a "trade dispute" between China n the Great Britain n because China lost the war so logically Britain had the right to seek compensation from China by way of cash n cessation of Hongkong! By all means looking back the facts were all distorted n selectively reported! Even now on a daily basis we're seeing this in Western mainstream media!
@@user-nd5fn4ix8r I believe that is called Critical Race Theory which is banned in the West!
@@sasha69XurgelashWhat he said had nothing to do with race or critical race theory, whatever tf that even is
they're what you call, Self-Hating asians, brainwashed by western media, movies, news.
Tea and the goodness to have come from it actually has Sino origins. Priceless
Showcasing Great Britain Crimes show more please.
and where are you from? does your country have a perfect History?Blame the British because they were succesfulll ok.Being envious all your life isnt good you know?
What's the lesson learned here? Don't destroy other people's property and not compensate for that lost property. Even today people will get more furious over monetary losses than almost anything. Most murders in my country are related to unpaid debt...
@@avatarion well the lesson should be don't sell drugs but hej seems you guys in the UK need that shit after Brexit 😂
@@Ickie71 Selling drugs and killing thousands in a war is a success story in your eyes 😂
🥒you know what to do
Summer palace is in cheng de, not chengdu. Geez these are 2 very different places.
I'm Singaporean, and in the bad old days when Singapore was a trading port under the British and not as developed as it is today, there were lots of Chinese men who came here to work as labourers and coolies and such. They used to turn to opium to ease their pain or whatever, and there are many pictures of them in history textbooks and museums sporting their fugly Qing Empire queues (this was early 20th century, before the Republican era and when Chinese men still wore queues on pain of punishment of death by order of the Qing Manchu overlords) and lying on mats stoned from opium. They seemed utterly miserable to me.
Opium is one of the worse drug ever known to man, worse than Heroin/Crack because if you stop an opium addict from taking the drug they run mad and slowly die off.
It takes rigorous treatment and lengthy amount of time for addicts to recover even to half of their normal selves. Which is why the British/American merchants must have seemed so evil to the Qing government knowing the foreigners introduced poison destroying the fabric of their society just for profit.
Over 150 years later and the Chinese seem to be doing the same to the West with fentanyl.
Singapores origins as a modern society is due to the British. They weren’t only a negative influence. We concentrate too much on the bad things they did and ignore the good
@@j0nnyism yeah because we were too soft and gullible, we thought we could get a win-win situation for both sides.
but all that matter for the British was their own win (:
@@j0nnyism Amen to that..Even if we don't talk about the amazing innovations all started from Britain and centralised investment banking, …before 1650 the 1st beheading of a king exercising abuse of power, in the world, since its inception was relative to what happened since, a slow-moving autocratic slave regime everywhere
Once Britain became the 1st "relatively" Free State …emancipating and an enfranchising other groups other than a very small group of nobles, , all the advancements you see in the modern world, that we value, eg : ability to talk on the Internet with "free time", if it wasn't for the uprisings of the Englis and the ratification of human and civil rights documents, leading to constitutions, we, as plebs would have no free time at all and would be working all our time to create value for a small group of elites.
Every democratic society since Parliamentary democracy and the English Bill of Rights (1689) has more recently adapted the stipulations from these documents, including the American constitution and the French charter for the rights of man and the Citizen a
let us also remember the effect of the Iroquois Confederacy on the burgeoning American constitution @@Rowlph8888
I have always wondered what the opium war was all about, especially with my love of learning about world history, and this is coming from an American
The Empire had 600k of the billion on Earth in the 1860's hooked on opium, 2/3 of the worlds pop (India and China). Makes one wonder what the Fentynal is really for?
@@thehonkening6060 Fentanyl is to keep large parts of American society from getting too ornery and rebelling against their billionaire and bank overlords in NYC, served by their handmaidens in the GOP. One of their biggest handmaidens is Donald Trump, who does a fabulous job distracting voters from this huge fentanyl problem. There are some other handmaidens in the Democratic Party and among tech bros in Silicon Valley.
Just a conflict between empires. Emotions and feelings of nationalism, especially of the Chinese, are very fake and merely invented.
It`s nice to hear that some Americans are taking an interest in world and especially European history. It is, after all, very much a part of your own.
British traded opium for tea
The british intended it to be used for those experiencing extreme pain - end of life or traumatic injury
But....the opium landed on harbors, and didn't move an inch - on each harbor opium dens emerged
Tragic, but foreseeable consequence
I have had to deal with trading companies today when I worked on the SGM car project.
Now you can understand the intentions of the fentanyl war….
What goes around comes around
I’m sure selling coffee was pure innocence…
I like how they portray tea as addictive. Most Americans wouldn't drink Chinese tea if you paid them.
@AB-wf8ek A German lady once sang me an old song about how coffee was this revolting, morally reprehensible, Turkish/oriental muck.
@@enuskolada6618 Yea, people like to think this country is a melting pot, but the xenophobia is real. A friend's mom once asked me if they served bugs at Chinese restaurants.
In highschool, one of my brother's friends literally brought McDonald's to Chinatown when he invited a group to eat.
Chills all the way to the end. An interesting insight into a clash of two very different cultures.
One is millenary till today and the other is parasitic and gross
Thanks!
THE BACKGROUND MUSIC IS MADDENING
Agree.
Totally unnecessary in a doc.
Some of the producers seems to think it makes it more exciting. Not a fricking action movie, ffs.