When HSBC ,opened its doors in Hong Kong and Shanghai in 1865, Chinese trade flows were just bubbling up again after the ...
The result was the “First Opium War,” in which Britain won a resounding ... a series of other impositions, from the loss of ...
fighting the opium wars in order to seize an offshore base at Hong Kong and safeguard its profitable monopoly in narcotics". Some historians have argued that the opium business bolstered India's ...