But for a people already battered by a long war, the opium ban has struck a crushing blow, coming as it does amid an economic collapse which has caused near universal poverty in Afghanistan.

The Opium War is a 1943 blackandwhite Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino Ahen senso in Japan refers to the First Opium War The story of the film concerns this war ...

In the mid-1840's, following defeat by Britain in the first Opium War, a series of natural catastrophes occurred across China resulting in famine, peasant uprisings and rebellions. Understandably ...

The Chinese resisted the opium trade. This led to war, after the Chinese destroyed all the British opium in China. The Chinese army and navy were no match for the British navy. As a result of ...

The naval exercises have become increasingly significant for Singapore, given China’s ongoing concerns about Singapore’s ...

甬派君有话说 作为海上丝绸之路的起点城市之一，宁波自古就和世界各地往来密切。在外国档案及文献中，有很多关于宁波人文、历史、风物的记载。

Diplomatic agreements are a part of the history of war, but lasting diplomacy only exists in the aftermath of a decisive ...

The crisis at its doorstep - a nearly 2,000km (1,240-mile) border - is becoming costly for China, which has invested millions ...

The story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the British Empire, in the 1830s, and the subsequent takeover of Hong Kong by Britain; through the eyes of the ...

On this day, Philip Anstruther of the British Indian Army, who had sailed to China in command of the detachment of Madras ...