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 ...

BANGKOK--Myanmar, already wracked by a brutal civil war, has regained the unenviable title of the world’s biggest opium producer, according to a U.N. agency report released Tuesday. The ...

Displaced and desperate - Myanmar's opium production was previously second ... Aung Hla agreed. With the war, he said, "we don't have any choice".