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erika Schupak-neuberg's avatar

Thanks for writing this.

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Dick Jones's avatar

Very boring. I can read the same shit in a HuffPost or Vox article but at least they'd have the courtesy to keep it brief. You have to bring something new to the table.

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John Thornton's avatar

Thank you for the remark: I will keep it in mind. And I also read Huffpost and Vox as well - they do great work. If I may offer a defense, it's just 3,000 words. It's a 5 minute read, 10 at tops.

Again, thank you for responding. Blessings!

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Chris's avatar

Mr Foley and Mr Jones is any of this true

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Brian Foley's avatar

Don’t believe me? ............. No I dont

It was an Iraqi Jew David Sassoon who deliberately hooked China on Opium, in future do some reasearch before you publish.

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/david-sassoon-the-biggest-wealth-generator-in-bombay-4523271.html

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J Williams's avatar

Very cute, you should know your source before you cite it. This article written by RN Bhaskar for MoneyControl.com, owned by Indian Media company Network 18. Network 18 is owned by Indian energy conglomerate Reliance Industries Limited. Reliance Industries Limited has been in ongoing disputes with Arabic countries over oil and China for technological and industrial trade.

RN Bhaskar himself has no degrees in history or anything from what has been reported, and his expertise is focused on business analysis. Ironically though Bhaskar has had an lost several businesses which he claimed he did by choice, but when you dig into his history it is mainly poor financial management and corporate takeovers that caused him to move on.

That all said, even the United States State Department office of the Historian confirms it was American traders and british traders who brought opium to China as a way to bolster their offered trade to the Chinese, in order to gain unfettered access to goods like furniture, tea, and silk.

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/china-1

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