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 ...

Hisao Mori, professor emeritus of Japanese colonial history at ... Japan’s World War II defeat of 1945. The second volume also notes that the Manchukuo government forced opium addicts and ...

opium has a long destructive history in trade wars and warfare, beginning with the First Opium War of 1839-42. In the first half of the 19th century, the British government faced an economic problem.