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Merchant, Miner, Mandarin: The life and times of the remarkable Choie Sew Hoy QUOTES

1 " In the 1830s the British East India Company grew and processed the drug (Opium) in eastern India. Foreign traders with China buying tea, silk and porcelain were obliged to pay in silver so a trade imbalance grew. The traders wanted a product they could sell back to China.
One answer was opium. There were soon one million addicts of a population 400 million and when the Chinese government tried to ban opium’s importation, officials were bribed and even more opium was smuggled in. ...Britain produced the drug (Opium) as a government monopoly and fought two wars to stop China from banning its import. "

― , Merchant, Miner, Mandarin: The life and times of the remarkable Choie Sew Hoy