How The Opium Trade Destroyed China’s Greatest Empire | Empires Of Silver | Absolute History

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  • China's lust for silver helped establish their formidable economic position on the global stage. However, Western powers were reluctant to engage in silver trade and in their search for an alternative avenue they discovered something that would change history forever: Opium. As opium surged throughout the nation, it brought forth multifaceted societal issues, ultimately fueling the harrowing Opium Wars. These conflicts marked the onset of a devastating "Century of Humiliation" for China, leaving an indelible mark on its history and global standing
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  • @SWAROOPSKNAIR
    @SWAROOPSKNAIR หลายเดือนก่อน +228

    Pablo Escobar won’t even get an Internship at the Colonial British Empire.

    • @oysterman962
      @oysterman962 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      everyone blames the English when the 2 fellas who ran the opium company were Scots

    • @petergreen5337
      @petergreen5337 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      😢absolutely CORRECT and true

    • @tedgebregzi3832
      @tedgebregzi3832 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It is shocking for people who respect the British to read this.Napolion too,the backward white people.

    • @tedgebregzi3832
      @tedgebregzi3832 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      They are the reason for us Ethiopians to stay behind.

    • @haroldbell213
      @haroldbell213 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      They pushed it hard. A way to control people as well.

  • @lengray44
    @lengray44 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +563

    My dad, who was an engineer, educated at Purdue, was completely wrong in his understanding of the Opium War. He believed that the British were fighting to keep the Chinese from spreading opium all over the world.I think that a great many people thought that. He graduated in 1962. I think maybe it was the propaganda of that time.

    • @crayrayc
      @crayrayc 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +123

      daym.. really makes you wonder about the propaganda being spread today

    • @SW-fy8pq
      @SW-fy8pq 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Using the media to brainwash is a common tactic used by warmonger governments to glorify their evil deeds. Another example is Japan. They don't know that their Japanese troops have killed tens of millions of children and innocent people in China and Southeast Asia. They even used chemical weapons against the Chinese people, just like Hitler massacred the Jews. But because Japan is under the control of the United States, all the evil deeds of the United States and Japan are covered up.

    • @SW-fy8pq
      @SW-fy8pq 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      During the deadly riots in Hong Kong in 2019, ignorant parents finally discovered that their children’s schools had tarnished the history of the Opium War. The school textbooks claimed that the British government wanted to help the Chinese get rid of the opium trade, but in fact they systematically sold opium to the Chinese for the purpose of It was to colonize China in order to obtain abundant resources.

    • @SW-fy8pq
      @SW-fy8pq 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +157

      I hold a British passport and have lived in the UK for many years. No British people knew the evil committed by their ancestors. All of them firmly believe that Britain is a great country that upholds human life and freedom, and brings peace and prosperity to the world. Americans are no different, they strongly believe they are the righteous ones, others are evil.

    • @crayrayc
      @crayrayc 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@SW-fy8pq such an injustice =(

  • @user-ns3jr5ib4m
    @user-ns3jr5ib4m 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +275

    The opium war was one of the biggest reason why China has a super strict policy on drugs today. Our 5000 years history almost ended because of it, an empire was brought down to its knees, and we sacrificed too much to get back on our feet. This is why today, any Chinese celebrity who has touched drugs in the Chinese mainstream society is deemed unforgivable, and even weed is considered way off limits. History was a great lesson, and we hope we will never forget

    • @kwamesmith3214
      @kwamesmith3214 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      …and that’s why the Chinese love liver cancer…

    • @CR-og5ho
      @CR-og5ho หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      This will give China a huge advantage in the longrun, more and more people are becoming addicts in Western countries nowadays.

    • @SV-kr9fu
      @SV-kr9fu หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Americans: "Pass me the bong, bro!"

    • @FloridaGirl-
      @FloridaGirl- หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well, they are giving pay back. As Nearly all fentanyl precursors come from China. These precursors are then made into fentanyl. But it doesn't stop there. Companies in China also manufacture other synthetic or man-made drugs-that make the fentanyl threat even more addictive and even more deadly
      As we see on the streets of America today. Zombies.

    • @Justa318i
      @Justa318i หลายเดือนก่อน +54

      is it also why they ship fentanyl to the us

  • @melissapinol7279
    @melissapinol7279 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +292

    I remember my mom telling me that the Opium Wars were about the noble British trying to keep opium "out" of China.
    I suppose that is what she was taught in school.

    • @kyliex6310
      @kyliex6310 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      oh wow....I saw another comment mentioning the same thing from his dad.

    • @Brembelia
      @Brembelia 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, I was taught the same thing. It wasn't until just awhile ago, when watching a Sally Lockwood Mystery did I first hear and see that Victorian English were selling little white cakes of the stuff, like small white ingots with a raised crown on top. I was shocked at this revelation and had to go online looking for the truth. I thought if this was a fictitious invention, it was a whopper. Nope. Turned out to be true.

    • @christianclerc8360
      @christianclerc8360 หลายเดือนก่อน

      🤣🤣🤣 HSBC and Standard Chartered banks made fortunes. The British propaganda brainwashing the people....Justlike they did during covod, injections, the war in the ME, the war in UKRAINE... Nothing changes ... Greed corrupts politicians

    • @oysterman962
      @oysterman962 หลายเดือนก่อน

      and I was taught that the great wall of China was to keep them out of Mongolia. You can't trust them Chineses

    • @p46709394
      @p46709394 หลายเดือนก่อน

      oh wow reallly ? and they call the chinese people brainwashed by govt.

  • @yenkassa
    @yenkassa 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +695

    So, the British were a large scale Pablo Escobar.

    • @petarkanev8156
      @petarkanev8156 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      why 'were'? the brits and americans still control global drug trade

    • @davidtwliew616
      @davidtwliew616 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +102

      They made Escobar looks like small time retail merchant.😅😅😅

    • @aikaterinimoschou9437
      @aikaterinimoschou9437 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      Always/Everywhere.

    • @evanr1784
      @evanr1784 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Great analogy 😅
      Imagine the US stopping all import of cocaine and President Pablo Escobar of a now powerful Colombia invades the US and forces them to buy it​@aikaterinimoschou9437

    • @michaeldob9526
      @michaeldob9526 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      Still are.

  • @MrLoobu
    @MrLoobu 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +992

    "Tea takes hold quite rapidly. it's an addictive drug"
    Sells fucking opium.

    • @vb198x2
      @vb198x2 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      haaaa hah im deaaddd hahaa,

    • @everest9707
      @everest9707 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      😂

    • @stanleywh9796
      @stanleywh9796 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      i think now can use coffee is addictive drug - sell Coc

    • @Hunter_Nebid
      @Hunter_Nebid 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Ummm...what??

    • @Hunter_Nebid
      @Hunter_Nebid 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh hush up, little girl. Your race envy is getting boring. @stanlywh9796

  • @conanmcclanahan1069
    @conanmcclanahan1069 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +113

    That 3 minute intro deserves a TON of credit... I don't have an entire hour at this moment. But you SOLD me on this documentary!

  • @gomezleonardo60
    @gomezleonardo60 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +196

    The documentary was exceptionally insightful. As an American PhD student specializing in Chinese affairs, currently residing in Guangzhou, I found its portrayal of the city to be enchanting, capturing its beauty and the myriad of undisclosed intricacies within. In my scholarly opinion, Canton is indisputably a pivotal region in China. The documentary's emphasis on the impacts of the opium wars was both truthful and precise. The work done here is nothing short of tremendous.

    • @dongshenghan1473
      @dongshenghan1473 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I am from Guangzhou. I haven't been back for years (since covid). How is the economy fairing nowadays? Are you thoroughly hating the climate yet?

    • @punchyMiddleEarth
      @punchyMiddleEarth 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      A.I bot comment

    • @starman4840
      @starman4840 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      We know you’re not a doctor you’re just looking up big boy words lol

    • @danielb7253
      @danielb7253 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The Qing dynasty was Manchu and run by Manzus. Yuan dynasty was mongol and the CCP claims it was Han.. LOL...Please help me with the lies Phd professor.

    • @andrewjackman2251
      @andrewjackman2251 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My perspective that GB used the sale of Opium to the Chinese was specifically a biological weapon to weaken that region , today is ironic that Alot of Americans are zombies because of one of the many drugs they take , and one of them is fentanyl manufactured in China ,

  • @Cymricus
    @Cymricus 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +384

    i’m 38 and it took me until now to realize i actually enjoy history

    • @jasonmajere2165
      @jasonmajere2165 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      History is messy and interesting, not memorizing dates in a pg version.

    • @charlytaylor1748
      @charlytaylor1748 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I read History Began in Sumer when I was 40 and have been addicted to history for over 20 years

    • @raticallife1320
      @raticallife1320 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      yeah we were robbed of it in school, weren't we? what a waste they made history boring AF in the class room. it's actually very fascinating stuff.

    • @charlytaylor1748
      @charlytaylor1748 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@raticallife1320 they did the same with Shakespeare

    • @naturalLin
      @naturalLin 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      The older you become the more interested you become in history

  • @adityavyas4310
    @adityavyas4310 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +797

    The other aspect of Opium trade by the British was that Bengal saw many famines and millions died as farmers were forced to grow opium instead of rice and other food crops.

    • @rickybolio
      @rickybolio 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bi

    • @Castrate-
      @Castrate- 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      nonsense

    • @Robert-hy3vv
      @Robert-hy3vv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      There were many famines before the british showed up. There is plenty of arable land in india even to this day.

    • @Myname8315
      @Myname8315 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      British depravity knows no bounds

    • @bunnyfreakz
      @bunnyfreakz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +120

      @@Robert-hy3vv British famine were man made.

  • @domenigo97
    @domenigo97 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    I find the title on the thumbnail misleading. They weren't China's Opium Wars. They were Britain's Opium Wars against China.

    • @oysterman962
      @oysterman962 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No, let's blame China. Like how the US flu was named the Spanish flu. And the American's call theirs the Indian Wars. It's never the white man's fault. They just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time

    • @tobir693
      @tobir693 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It's not misleading. That is the name given to these events by Historians.

    • @Peleski
      @Peleski 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It was a war, just one that was over fast.

  • @ChelinTutorials
    @ChelinTutorials 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    What an amazing documentary. Incredible quality. Thank you so much. ❤

    • @Philip-mw4qs
      @Philip-mw4qs 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      True story!!! Mostly....
      "Man's heart is decietful above all things and, desperately wicked 🤔" Poor China 😢...

  • @julianshepherd2038
    @julianshepherd2038 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2310

    I suppose the British will get the blame just because we did it

    • @maxdavis7722
      @maxdavis7722 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +230

      Ay, we apparently felled chinas greatest empire, quite an impressive feat.

    • @UncleHam1337
      @UncleHam1337 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +180

      Aint that logical?

    • @technomickdocumentalist2495
      @technomickdocumentalist2495 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +185

      @@UncleHam1337
      Ain’t that the joke ?

    • @UncleHam1337
      @UncleHam1337 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

      @@technomickdocumentalist2495 Was that a joke?

    • @alansiebert7029
      @alansiebert7029 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

      What uk trading opium, yes

  • @justinreilly1
    @justinreilly1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +316

    There’s nothing more Victorian and British-square than having a mountain of Opium and giving it away for tea.

    • @brettbanta2100
      @brettbanta2100 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Who wouldn't like a mountain of opium?

    • @fanwan1206
      @fanwan1206 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Giving it away? They scammed china for tea with opium

    • @youngsixty7395
      @youngsixty7395 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      "Anglo caused most of the world's problems." - David Cameron, former British Prime Minister

    • @gumb1240
      @gumb1240 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      First taste is free

    • @vinozarazzi5633
      @vinozarazzi5633 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      "Giving it away for tea..." - Sounds like narcissistic gas lighting...😮

  • @SnickC13
    @SnickC13 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    A new channel to endlessly stream in the background. Thanks ❤

  • @blairhakamies4132
    @blairhakamies4132 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Fabulous video. Congratulations. Thank you for sharing it. 👌

  • @pdruiz2005
    @pdruiz2005 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +621

    At 40:35. This incorruptible Chinese official, Lin Zexu, tried his mighty best to stem the drug trade from British and American drug lords and drug traffickers in the 1830s. The Chinese are understandably proud of him, so Lin Zexu has a large statue in the middle of Chinatown in NYC commemorating his life and his sacrifices. When I used to live in Chinatown I would walk by that mighty statue of Lin Zexu practically every day. A constant reminder that the past is never dead. It's not even past.

    • @wolfu597
      @wolfu597 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      According to Lins associate, Wei Yuan, British plenipotentiary, captain Charles Elliot, had offered early on to help find a way to end the opium smugling trade, but Lin Zexy rebuffed him. Which, according to Wei was one major mistake at that time.
      One big misconception is about Lin Zexu confiscating opium from western warehouses. Which is rather incorrect. The opium was stored on ships ankered off shore, and when Lin launched his crack down, they just lifted anker and set sail for Manila, Singapore or the Dutch East Indies to wait it out. The only reason Lin was able to destroy 20 000 chests of opium at Humen, was because of Charles Elliot, who bought it from the opium dealers at market value, which they happily accepted, and then handed it over to Lin Zexu.

    • @Walkthepath92
      @Walkthepath92 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      @@wolfu597 But then why was China ordered to pay compensation?

    • @wolfu597
      @wolfu597 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Walkthepath92 Contrary to belief, the biggest push did not come from the Opium dealers. It came from those that had nothing to do with the opium trade. When Lin Zexu launched his crack down, he effectively shut down the entire Canton trade, which affect everyone, opium dealers or not, and that lasted for weeks and weeks. As such, legal goods, worth way more than the opium that was destroyed, was left sitting on ships and in warehouses, and people who were dependent on the Canton trade for their livelihood, started losing money.
      Lins predecessor Deng Tingzhen, along with the man that would succeed him, Qishan, both said to him: Don' target the foreigners.
      Because many of the officials in the south, who had seen firsthand the ships, the thickness of their hulls, and their cannons, had strongly advised against pushing the foreigners too far.

    • @DW-op7ly
      @DW-op7ly 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They were looking for any reason.force China into a confrontation and make them into the bad guys…. And where it’s okay to keep selling China opium in return for its treasures
      And seriously doubt a person like him or anyone else
      Is going to believe these days,
      the Chinese selling their precursor drugs for fentanyl/or fentanyl itself to Mexican Cartels that eventually make it to the USA
      That the Chinese get to wash their hands of it

    • @silverchairsg
      @silverchairsg 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I remember him from history class. Intro level history course on History of Asia in university.

  • @danieltang1680
    @danieltang1680 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +590

    A great and forthright documentary. My perspective is that I was born in Hong Kong and have now lived in the UK for almost 50 years. I remember when I was a kid that we used to play around our houses and now and again we used to find tiny terracotta pots buried in the soil. These little pots were containers for opium. To this day, I am still astonished that the Victorian Britain which was supposed to be a christian and moral country would allow such an ugly trade of tea for opium. I no longer harbour any bitterness. But to many Chinese, they still have a sense of entrenched indignation and insult. Sadly this might be reflected in the mindset of the increasingly powerful Chinese ruling leadership.

    • @samuelphillian1286
      @samuelphillian1286 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      China is crumbling

    • @waleed8530
      @waleed8530 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +121

      The Brits are very pragmatic when it comes to politics and fulfilling their interests and agenda by any means necessary, hence the great success and therefore defiantly not a Christian nation nor a moral one.

    • @agxryt
      @agxryt 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

      I was going to ask why you would feel any indignation over shit that happened generations ago.
      But then I realized I'm gay, and feel enraged by what gay people have had to endure at the hands of Christians for years, and it kinda clicked.
      People were shitty back then I guess

    • @casusbelli8222
      @casusbelli8222 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Blamed on Christians ? The real culprits were the Kadoorie and thhe Sassoon family. They were Jews.

    • @samuelphillian1286
      @samuelphillian1286 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@agxryt why do you only single out Christians when Muslims throw gays off roofs in 2023? Because you’re a hypocrite

  • @burnttoast6813
    @burnttoast6813 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    This has been a great documentary so far, thank you all for all the hard work and attention to detail!
    I remember watching a documentary about the opium trade in China with my parents when I was hardly tall enough to sit at the table, and it always stuck with me that the emperor banned opium despite his personal use, still have that image in my head. Thank you!

  • @YogiMcCaw
    @YogiMcCaw 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Nice doc done in that old-school classic documentary style. I like watching this kind of stuff.

  • @MarkJ.Ashwin
    @MarkJ.Ashwin 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +455

    I am an Australian. My forebears were British. I grew up being told at primary school how great the British Empire was. In recent years I have been coming to terms with the Empire's crimes and corruption.

    • @hotmess9640
      @hotmess9640 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

      As someone who is from a country where millions of people died because of your forbears, they’re evil and probably not resting in peace

    • @oscarrlee18
      @oscarrlee18 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      Sorry to say including the creation of your own country Australia

    • @macleanguthrie8439
      @macleanguthrie8439 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      @@hotmess9640 Bruv really insulting people who have been dead for centuries.

    • @helpIthinkmylegsaregone
      @helpIthinkmylegsaregone 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The British Opium trade was headed by Jews, by the way. Specifically, the Mizrahi/Sephardic Sassoon family and their Masonic henchmen. You wouldn't know about that, because these documentaries are made in order to legitimize hatred of Christian Europeans.

    • @garethwigglesworth8187
      @garethwigglesworth8187 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      ​@@macleanguthrie8439they hate our ancestors so much that they hate their descendants

  • @pdruiz2005
    @pdruiz2005 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +164

    At 23:55. Well, the Chinese were not stupid. They had read and heard about the British conquest of India from the 1750s right on through the 1810s and 1820s. Great and powerful India--the mighty land of the Buddha and the Buddhist scriptures--was now a mere colony of the British. This rightfully made the Chinese authorities suspicious and scared that the British were aiming to set up a colony in China next.

    • @DAVID-kd3qy
      @DAVID-kd3qy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

      The history of the British Empire is really quite sordid and shameful.

    • @vinceb4380
      @vinceb4380 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      China is back on the World Stage to take its rightful place at the Top.🐯🐉❤❤❤

    • @outdoorscholar6016
      @outdoorscholar6016 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      I think it’s safe to say their fears were recognized with the current mess that is Hong Kong: the mainland never had *total* jurisdiction over it until the 90s, and even after they got it the West pretty much went “if I can’t have HK, no one can” and started stirring up the youth with lies about “independence”

    • @xoho3462
      @xoho3462 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      India is hindu…

    • @andrewwilliams3137
      @andrewwilliams3137 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      @@outdoorscholar6016 You have got to be joking. The mainland had no jurisdiction, China ceded Hong Kong Island and Kowloon on the peninsula in perpetuity, only the New Territories were leased for 99 years. Britain founded Hong Kong city and built it from nothing to become one of the largest manufacturing economies in Asia by the end of it's time as a British Empire colony. Hong Kong was then a British Dependent Territory and Commonwealth member. In the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration the UK agreed to transfer it in 1997 and China would guarantee Hong Kong economic and political systems for 50 yrs. The agreement "triggered a wave of mass emigration as residents feared an erosion of civil rights, the rule of law, and quality of life". "Over half a million people left the territory during the peak migration period, from 1987 to 1996" . Seems they're still not happy about it now.

  • @DaRyteJuan
    @DaRyteJuan 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Wow. This was a great documentary. 👍🏻 Never even had a clue about most of this history until watching this production.

  • @aaronjclarke1973
    @aaronjclarke1973 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fascinating . Thanks for uploading it.

  • @grazryan
    @grazryan 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

    I was so invested from start to finish! Very greatly done!

  • @moviesmovies5337
    @moviesmovies5337 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +98

    As a kid I hated history but now it seems I can't get enough 😆

    • @bingcao116
      @bingcao116 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Me the same 😊

    • @albertomartin4812
      @albertomartin4812 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Youth is there to live. Later you reflect on the past. I guess.

    • @HaiLe-ru2zw
      @HaiLe-ru2zw 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      always love it as a kid and now

    • @michaelmisquez5794
      @michaelmisquez5794 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Maybe because this is not white washed

    • @KietKar-kk5gi
      @KietKar-kk5gi หลายเดือนก่อน

      IBN e Khuldoon said : “ ‘ ‘ history is not a catalogue of past occurrences…’”

  • @zugdarr
    @zugdarr 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Unbelievable history, never knew this was how Britian originally retained Hong Kong.

  • @muktarahmed662
    @muktarahmed662 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love history, and this documentary so well made. Was invested on it to the very end

  • @donvillarante1517
    @donvillarante1517 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +94

    I guess East India Company is the world's first cartel

    • @frozenrats
      @frozenrats 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Not even close

    • @horstnietzsche1923
      @horstnietzsche1923 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      No but they were probably the first world wide one.

    • @raakbas1
      @raakbas1 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      John Company was always a John Company.😂 (John Company is the Indian name for a Company of thieves. It would never keep its word to the natives always cheating them 😂)

    • @robertewalt7789
      @robertewalt7789 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      British East India Company copied the Dutch East India Company, which had developed trade in Asia before the British.

  • @fitmesslife
    @fitmesslife 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    A certain banking family seems conspicuously absent from this doc.

    • @xispaster
      @xispaster 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Not a cristian family

    • @marcuswalldesand9983
      @marcuswalldesand9983 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You mean Wallenberg? Bank of England was a creation taken from the Swedish Riksbank, swedes where in the core of this construction... Eastindia was very influenced by swedish intrests and specially Wallenberg-family... Now Wallenberg is the most wealthy family in the world...

    • @fitmesslife
      @fitmesslife 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@marcuswalldesand9983 The RottenChildren

    • @marcuswalldesand9983
      @marcuswalldesand9983 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@fitmesslife Then you have to study more... cause the Rothchilds is not involved in this as Wallenberg-family.. They created the Bankingsystem in Europe (Sweden, England, Germany...) and their friends Warburg, Morgan was part of FED:s creation... Rothchild may been rich and powerful, but not as powerful as Wallenberg in Sweden. Modern war is about 85% information, 10% financial and 5% bombs and weapon... Wallenberg have controlled the information which MADE them in charge... Ericsson, established in 184 country, controlling the nervsystem of the world - internet, telecom.... Information! Strong conections to brother Dulles - What would CIA be without information - The Five eyes is depending on the 6th Eye - Wallenberg/Ericsson! Where ever the railroad was built in US the Ericsson cabel came with it...

    • @dthundergunb3115
      @dthundergunb3115 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Hahaha I was thinking the same thing. With them being quoted as saying "the sun never set on Britannia's holdings" they for sure had a hand in it.

  • @Rutuspace
    @Rutuspace 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This was my first time watching a histroy documentry. I used to like histroy in my school days a lot then I lost touch with it. But trust me when I say that - this was truly an exceptional documentry". Thanks!!

  • @garrettkato
    @garrettkato 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +148

    It’s crazy how North American medical industry did this to their own country.

    • @voidrandom321
      @voidrandom321 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      The upper class will always do something to the lower.

    • @PunaSquirrel
      @PunaSquirrel 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Aloha from Hawai'i. You make good music🤙🏼

    • @dthundergunb3115
      @dthundergunb3115 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah it's all due to policies like NAFTA the founders wouldn't have ever allowed policies like free trade to happen. That and regulations in the US mean higher prices and less profits for big pharma...they can't have that so they'll use slave labor in china's industry where there's no regulations so labor is dirt cheap but if we we're to go to war with them....then it's bye bye medication

    • @johnallen2535
      @johnallen2535 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Sackler family did this to America

    • @kerrymarris4260
      @kerrymarris4260 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Our whole government has perpatrade this, because Joe Biden and his vengeful son Hunter, are just the tip of the icebergs, that have sold out to foreigner enemies, their just trying to speed up the depopulation train, because it's going to slow. Everything in America is upside down.. because greedy has taken over Britain got addicted to tea, so they returned the favor with optimum. Justified by greed, and has carried on more or less since it started.

  • @stiofanocathmhaoil2318
    @stiofanocathmhaoil2318 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Fascinating documentary, thanks for uploading it.

  • @jamy8575
    @jamy8575 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    They did not "crave" it.. They were forced to take it as payment (balance of payments/global finance)

  • @threestars2164
    @threestars2164 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +75

    Can't believe how evil humanity can be!

    • @mdmarcus7494
      @mdmarcus7494 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Related to western countries over the past 200 years.

    • @teacopem
      @teacopem 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@mdmarcus7494it's not even that bad

    • @mdmarcus7494
      @mdmarcus7494 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@teacopem It is if you consider many many crimes they commited against other people over the world and history speak truth im just stating facts based on that. Just go check colonialism and see who where the major players.

    • @user-wx2xo4ll7l
      @user-wx2xo4ll7l 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mdmarcus7494 the chines was not that much better too

    • @mdmarcus7494
      @mdmarcus7494 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@user-wx2xo4ll7l No country is saint but if weight all that we could say who is heavier in terms of hideous nature.

  • @xispaster
    @xispaster 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    The Spanish government (catholic), was always against the commercialization of opium. It even refused the idea of using the Philippines as entrepôt for the trade of Indian opium or trying to cultivate it there.
    However, Fernando VII (who else?) abolished the prohibition to cultivate opium in Luzon in April 1828, but the local authorities ignored it and never supported its cultivation.
    By the time of the Second Opium War, the Captain-General of the Philippines, Fernando de Norzagaray, proclaimed a general prohibition to all hispano-filipino corporations to try to trade opium for ‘health and public moral reasons’.

    • @krystofcisar469
      @krystofcisar469 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ever thought that opium was only real anesthetic until late 1900´s? opium was always very valuble and useful herb product... i would say that prohibition was rather immoral in fact...

    • @buwanbuwaya6927
      @buwanbuwaya6927 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@krystofcisar469 Didn't regulateThe it enough, and also look at the drug problems now at latin America, the Philippines? It the habits of their ancestors were passed down the line and it there ever since

    • @saturninoestoquejr.7134
      @saturninoestoquejr.7134 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The Filipinos were and have always been smarter than the Chinese. They are also have outstanding goord morals and characters.

    • @saturninoestoquejr.7134
      @saturninoestoquejr.7134 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The Chinese in the olden times will do anything for money. Including leading one to addiction.

    • @freneticness6927
      @freneticness6927 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah the spanish only had enslaved native americans working in gold and silver mines thats all.

  • @MysticChronicles712
    @MysticChronicles712 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    An extraordinary documentary chronicling an intriguing era in history. Your gratitude is appreciated.

  • @Pou1gie1
    @Pou1gie1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    @52:00 Like vampires, once you let the devil in, you can't get the devil out. Their mistake was letting them have trading posts and become too comfortable, like the garden suggested.

  • @Parialated
    @Parialated 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +288

    I am very very very disappointed that you left out the crucial fact that the Roosevelt profited from the opium trade... His name and descendant suddenly disappear from the story as soon opium is mentioned....

    • @Parialated
      @Parialated 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Yet you do mention how their Chinese friend merchant have been punished for his role in the opium trade ..

    • @MathTidbits
      @MathTidbits 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

      a few ivy league schools got opium money to expand their colleges. and now discriminate the entrance of meritorious chinese students,giving the privilege to descendants of a group of victims(slavery) against the descendants of victim of opium trade. what's next ? the victims of alleged WMD (irag,libya) or the victims of alleged 911 (afghanistan) also those from river to the sea victims.?

    • @fitmesslife
      @fitmesslife 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      And the banking family

    • @donw3861
      @donw3861 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@beyourself2444And white females will go wherever black males go.... 🤑🤡👍

    • @robertmatch6550
      @robertmatch6550 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      The background music needs to be more background.

  • @youngsixty7395
    @youngsixty7395 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +262

    The fact that we get free documentaries on TH-cam by Absolute History is truly a gift.. 👏👏👏
    May I also remind you the fact that our Native American population in our motherland, the Continent of America before the European Colonizers arrived, was around 15 millions, while the European population in their motherland, the Continent of Europe was around 25 millions.
    Today, Native American population is 15 million, while the European population, in the Continents of America + Europe, is a staggering TWO BILLION! A shocking sad truth. 😔
    In my humble opinion, it's about time to decolonize the Colonized lands, and return it to rightful owners Native American people.
    Notorious global cardinal crimes the Christian West has committed, and benefited a great deals, such as Slavery & Colonialism had long been over, why on earth is notorious Colonization still lingering on, may I ask? 😔

    • @olefella7561
      @olefella7561 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      A gift.

    • @myleghurts3546
      @myleghurts3546 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      New encyclopedia for all....and no wasted paper

    • @simongills2051
      @simongills2051 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      From Russia.....

    • @myleghurts3546
      @myleghurts3546 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nothing from Russia is of any value so what are you selling??@@simongills2051

    • @olddirtybasterd-ex2vb
      @olddirtybasterd-ex2vb 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      32:15 hard pass on the bird's nest soup and pigeons egg, Mr Qua

  • @michaelh1769
    @michaelh1769 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    First lady Eleanor Roosevelt also made a fortune as an Opium Kingpin in china. A lot of that money then went back to the united states and went into establishing and funding of many Ivy League schools, like Harvard in the United States.

  • @MrCloud254
    @MrCloud254 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Buddy at 4:59 really started feeling something at just the thought of tea 😂

  • @wagherbert
    @wagherbert 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +199

    A truly exceptional documentary on a fascinating period of history. Thank you.

    • @mohdfahmi8841
      @mohdfahmi8841 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      //;;//;//;;//..;;//..

    • @Anakin_Sandy_High_Ground
      @Anakin_Sandy_High_Ground 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      So did almost every empire in history@@andromeda45188

    • @peterg219
      @peterg219 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And just to think 200 years ago, the Jesuits boasted that 'they' already controlled China. Currently both the white & the black Popes are Jesuits, for the 1st time in history.

    • @revellen
      @revellen 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Shows how evil the UK has been in the past.

    • @Anakin_Sandy_High_Ground
      @Anakin_Sandy_High_Ground 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Chinese would eat their prisoners of war@@revellen

  • @postscript5549
    @postscript5549 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Wonderfully done. Thank you very much!

  • @sandraberry5132
    @sandraberry5132 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This is a well done historical indicator of the greed of man and the evil he will do to his fellow mankind to satisfy that greed...

  • @KILLHACAY
    @KILLHACAY 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow! Amazing documentary! It's incredible how interesting history is as we get older I think there's so much history stories tales and information it should be made into a movie is series perhaps call it the "company" i believe there's so much potential in this I'm writing a book and script on it..

  • @crossan-uq1cd
    @crossan-uq1cd 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    Whoa i learnt so much from this video. I never knew a Chinese merchant invested in America's early industries. Incredible. I'd love to visit China!

    • @LeecheeChinaTour
      @LeecheeChinaTour 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Welcome to travel to China and experience the rich Chinese culture
      Welcome to contact me directly to book travel routes to various cities

  • @henrynguyen9593
    @henrynguyen9593 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Loved it. Great work thank you.

  • @capoislamort100
    @capoislamort100 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Awesome documentary, very informative.👌🏾❤️

  • @danieltang3985
    @danieltang3985 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Forgiven but not forgotten.

  • @lesliewarnell5172
    @lesliewarnell5172 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    This docu is jam-packed with info. I had to watch it twice *and* take notes. Well done indeed. 📚

    • @JakeTardcum
      @JakeTardcum 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is the most surface level midwit tier documentary lol

    • @audreyricci6383
      @audreyricci6383 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@@JakeTardcumSpoken like a true ignoramus.

    • @JakeTardcum
      @JakeTardcum 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@audreyricci6383 stay mad, brainlet

    • @Sly_cptn
      @Sly_cptn 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lol

  • @motsuuuu
    @motsuuuu 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    in all fairness, if anyone’s ever had GOOD loose tea in china, i would definitely classify it as an addiction lol 😂

    • @Gaetano.94
      @Gaetano.94 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Same with opium. It is the nicest most beautiful scents I've ever smelled.

    • @totallylegit2068
      @totallylegit2068 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Gaetano.94 stop smelling opium

    • @SatSun-op9dp
      @SatSun-op9dp 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Can you name one and where to get it?

    • @Gdfsandoz
      @Gdfsandoz หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@Gaetano.94 same with good heroin. I never did it but one of my friends loved it a bit too much but that shit smells fantastic 😂 it smells like the best flower you've ever smelled same with opium lol.

  • @johnxina53
    @johnxina53 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Title is horribly wrong in describing the war. It's British empire opium wars against China. Not the other way around

  • @detectiveofmoneypolitics
    @detectiveofmoneypolitics 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Economic investigator Frank G Melbourne Australia is still watching this very informative content cheers Frank ❤❤😊

  • @zenzen272
    @zenzen272 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    This clearly explained the culture of the western society and the eastern society. In the current era, has this been repeated ?

    • @robinbreeds9217
      @robinbreeds9217 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The British Empire was not of the British The rise and fall of the opium-fueled Sassoon dynasty, the ‘Rothschilds of the East’
      In ‘Sassoon,’ Prof. Joseph Sassoon tells how his distant family of Baghdadi Jews fled to India and built an empire on the legal narcotics trade, hobnobbing with the British royals
      They established a global business empire that stretched across three continents, and became friends and confidants of Britain’s aristocracy and royal family. But the Sassoon dynasty, which made its millions as traders in opium, cotton, tea and silk, stemmed not from London, Paris or New York - but Baghdad.
      The family’s meteoric rise and equally dramatic fall is told in gripping yet meticulous detail by history professor Joseph Sassoon in his new book “The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire.” (A Hebrew edition will follow in June.)
      It’s not simply a tale of refugees who came to be known as the “Rothschilds of the East,” but also of bitter family disputes, trailblazing female pioneers and a legacy carelessly squandered. “Think ‘Succession’ with yarmulkes,” as the New York Times recently put it.
      The story begins with David, the dynasty’s founding father, escaping Ottoman Baghdad for Iran in the late 1820s. The son of Sheikh Sassoon ben Saleh, a long-serving former chief treasurer to the city’s pashas, David had been threatened and held hostage by Baghdad’s notoriously greedy and rapacious governor. When the aging Sheikh, once “the most eminent Jew in Baghdad,” joined him soon after, it capped a remarkable fall from grace for the family.
      For Joseph Sassoon, the story of their exile from Baghdad - one echoed by his own family fleeing the Iraqi capital during Saddam Hussein’s brutal rule - sparked a connection to his distant relatives. “That sense of looking for security, longevity and stability is so ingrained in anyone who was a refugee,” he tells The Times of Israel.

  • @wutruriding1355
    @wutruriding1355 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    Very informative and well done documentary. Thoroughly enjoyed.

    • @NazriB
      @NazriB 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lies again? Olympic Medals Trade Secrets

  • @kolitmas624
    @kolitmas624 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +107

    After watching this documentary I have a great respect and compassion for China. It is indeed one of the most hurt countries in the world. Today polictics of China is to regain its honor and self-esteem. I admire this ancient country. Hats off.

    • @xWHITExEAGLEx
      @xWHITExEAGLEx 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Well China was also a very brutal empire, look up the Dzungar Genocide or how they oppressed the native Miao people and massacred millions of them.

    • @ghjkllkjhg-qm2fc
      @ghjkllkjhg-qm2fc 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@xWHITExEAGLEx You are fabricating history

    • @orangedeer-13
      @orangedeer-13 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@xWHITExEAGLEx Which BBC article told you about these things

    • @xWHITExEAGLEx
      @xWHITExEAGLEx 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      @@orangedeer-13 BBC? It's history, there are many books on the subject.

    • @laurie9557
      @laurie9557 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They are also planning to conquer us.

  • @DawsonByron
    @DawsonByron 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +188

    Psychedelics saved me from years of uncontrollable depression, anxiety, smoking, and illicit pills addiction. Imagine carving heavy chains for over a decade and then all of a sudden that burden is gone. Believe it or not, in a couple of years they'll be all over for treatment of mental health related issues.

    • @AnoukHendriks-fq2df
      @AnoukHendriks-fq2df 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      To be honest, mushrooms are one of the most amazing things on the planet and it is natural, they serve in many ways not only for mental related issues.

    • @MichaelFerguson-tx8de
      @MichaelFerguson-tx8de 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Can you help me with a reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. It is very hard to get a reliable source here in New Zealand. Really need!

    • @AgustinNavia-cg3rg
      @AgustinNavia-cg3rg 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Yes, Sporeville. I had the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD, and addiction... Mushrooms definitely made a huge difference to why I'm clean today.

    • @ParragaZambrano-lo9re
      @ParragaZambrano-lo9re 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I wish they were readily available in my place.
      Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He's 59 & has many mental health issues plus probably CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone.
      He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD knows if it is common for an obsession with violence.

    • @MichaelFerguson-tx8de
      @MichaelFerguson-tx8de 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Is he on Instagram?

  • @Fastbikkel
    @Fastbikkel 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +100

    Very interesting material. I had some knowledge about opium trade and trade with China in general, but this certainly shed new light on the subject for me.

    • @jakemocci3953
      @jakemocci3953 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Look up the Sassoons. The opium traders weren’t Anglo, they were jewish.

    • @dznuts123
      @dznuts123 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Lol just shows you were brainwashed, if this documentary shed any kind of light.

  • @kathleenmoore4019
    @kathleenmoore4019 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Great documentary thank you for sharing.

  • @nghiado9895
    @nghiado9895 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Please provide audible translation, so that we could listen as a podcast.

  • @azforu29
    @azforu29 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Love that stuff. Keeps me healthy.

    • @goawag
      @goawag 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Opium?

  • @joshuajames1720
    @joshuajames1720 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    Fantastic documentary, very well put together, thank you, I look forward to the next instalment!

    • @Ickie71
      @Ickie71 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      and all its adverts too?

    • @audreyricci6383
      @audreyricci6383 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Ickie71You obviously do not have a skip ads icon to stop the ads.

    • @Ickie71
      @Ickie71 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i sure do same as everyone but that means constantly getting up off the settee and over to the PC click it and back again every sodding 4-5minutes its a damn joke now YT is kiling itself with this AD GREED@@audreyricci6383

  • @bushlovesska
    @bushlovesska 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    Im American and this haiquai guy who helped fund early parts of the industrial revolution is someone ive never heard of but he sounds amazing

    • @byhyew
      @byhyew 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Basically the first corrupt Chinese official to smuggle money out of the country. Nowadays you find half of Toronto inhabited by such families. 😂

    • @RobinsWood1
      @RobinsWood1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      An American author by the name James Bradley has publish a book in 2019.
      Tittle, The China Mirage, hope this book might help you to understand that chapter of American history in debt. BTW another very interesting history book by Jung Chang tittle: The 3 Sisters. Big sister love power, 2nd sister love money, 3rd sister love her country.

    • @freneticness6927
      @freneticness6927 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      His impact would have been essentially nothing.

  • @AM-zk7pj
    @AM-zk7pj 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Some businesses don't count the impact of their business on their country... Such businesses are dangerous for the future health of the country

  • @New_Zealand_Murder_History_777
    @New_Zealand_Murder_History_777 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What an intriguing documentary

  • @Error_-qz2zr
    @Error_-qz2zr 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    "tea takes hold rapidly its an addictive drug" lmao dude said it like its heroin

    • @travelinman790
      @travelinman790 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Apparently, you've never had tea 🍵 before...

    • @Error_-qz2zr
      @Error_-qz2zr 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      @@travelinman790 no i never tried tea or a caffeine drink my whole life, i live in a cave,we dont have coffee beans and tea leaves here

    • @arddermout6946
      @arddermout6946 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      ​@@Error_-qz2zrwho needs tea when you have H

    • @AB-wf8ek
      @AB-wf8ek 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      For real, most Americans wouldn't drink Chinese tea if you paid them

    • @Error_-qz2zr
      @Error_-qz2zr 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@AB-wf8ek "Tea is an addictive drug" American sips from his sugary Starbucks

  • @madaro504
    @madaro504 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Swap Opium for coke, and silver for firearms.... Asia for Sth America .. HSBC still washing the $$

    • @user-xz5qi7wq1u
      @user-xz5qi7wq1u 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ❤ Reincarnation is real. It is spoken about throughout all religious texts. The teachings of reincarnation were suppressed, especially in the West. Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah. The Messiah reincarnated in 1971 to try to save humanity. Julian Assange is the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth reincarnated. Julian exposed the lies and deception of the world governments via Wikileaks. Julian also exposed the killing and destruction of the Muslim/Arabic world and its inhabitants by the Western governments. The Romans and Jews are once again attempting to crucify our Messiah, and again, our hands are tied, and we are being prevented from stopping his crucifixion. Reread the Wikileaks drops and learn about Julian, it will become very clear to you what is taking place. The war in Gaza between the Palestinians and the Zionists was predicted and exposed before it even started (and has been ongoing for many years with the help of the West). So yes, to answer the question, the second coming of Christ is happening and has been since 2012 when Julian Assange went into the Ecuadorian Embassy in the UK.
      The leaders of the Western world governments are collectively The Antichrists/ ad-Dajjal☯️✝️☦️☪️✡️🤲🙌

  • @slee101643
    @slee101643 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Thanks!

  • @BlumChoi
    @BlumChoi 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wonderfully done documentary

  • @robertlee5456
    @robertlee5456 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +111

    Whenever I visit Hong Kong and pass by the corporate offices of Jardine Matheson, I laugh inwardly at the history behind it all. THE most successful drug dealers in history .. now acting as a perfectly legitimate business enterprise.

    • @freebird1ification
      @freebird1ification 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      dont they all

    • @naomib2334
      @naomib2334 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      They don't mentioned the Sassoon family

    • @avatarion
      @avatarion 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Not really. Sugar is the most successful drug in the world.

    • @unassailable6138
      @unassailable6138 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@avatarion not anymore .
      Sugar' as glycogen exists even in liver and our body makes around 70 grams of it daily even if you dont eat it through gluconeogenesis. Phones nowadays as in smartphones and money are the new modern drugs that destroy your dopaminergic system

    • @Jake-dh9qk
      @Jake-dh9qk 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      They walk around in suits and pretend they are superior humans

  • @dragonvliss2426
    @dragonvliss2426 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    I visited Hong Kong back in the 1980's, and rode out a typhoon there. Fascinating City.

    • @kwamesmith3214
      @kwamesmith3214 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I visited Hong Kong in the 2010s, and while there ulcers killed me… so oh yeah Hong Kong is definitely a fascinating city.

  • @chappahx
    @chappahx 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Exceptional documentary!

  • @TheGiraffeJustin
    @TheGiraffeJustin 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    I wouldn't say the Qing Dynasty was China's greatest empire except in terms of total area controlled. The Tang Dynasty would be more appropriate as a golden dynasty

    • @dudubunny
      @dudubunny 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Exactly, the Qing dynasty was one of the most humiliating dynasties for the Chinese people, because the Manchu people invaded Ming China and enslaved (most importantly, mentally and educationally) Han Chinese.

    • @user-qwertyuiopasdfghj
      @user-qwertyuiopasdfghj 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      That’s what most Chinese would agree. Qing is big but not a glory for Chinese. And Yuan is not even considered a Chinese dynasty by many

    • @in4ser
      @in4ser 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@user-qwertyuiopasdfghj "Han Chinese Dynasty." China is a nation not a single ethnic group.

  • @deadhorse1391
    @deadhorse1391 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Interesting video
    I have an antique lap desk from the 1840s that was made in Canton
    Looks like a typical English one but on the bottom of the drawer has Chinese writing identifying it.

    • @shaw6949
      @shaw6949 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What would cost me to buy this from you?

  • @JoseCastro-br6to
    @JoseCastro-br6to 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    To understand the whole first globalización I recommend the documentary 'Spain: The First Globalization' (English version).

  • @e7venjedi
    @e7venjedi หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was great! Was it really released end of 2023? Good timing for me as I'm diving in to understanding the Opium Wars.

  • @tebec3624
    @tebec3624 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +138

    Another informative documentary! I hope some history teacher or college professor uses these in class. This would also help business professionals understand negotiation and strategy (never underestimate your opponent)!

    • @Hindu_Shahi
      @Hindu_Shahi 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@nmdd2575East Turkistand and Tibet certainly isnt China.

    • @zhanghg5080
      @zhanghg5080 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@Hindu_Shahi I always tell this: If you are god, it's fine. But you only have keyboard, mouse and empty brain, this means nothing.

    • @Hindu_Shahi
      @Hindu_Shahi 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@zhanghg5080 so now the han think they are god?🤡

    • @daiwanrenzhudinsiguang
      @daiwanrenzhudinsiguang 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@nmdd2575gun

    • @daiwanrenzhudinsiguang
      @daiwanrenzhudinsiguang 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Hindu_Shahibullshit

  • @user-fc5vg9fk5g
    @user-fc5vg9fk5g 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Tea and the goodness to have come from it actually has Sino origins. Priceless

  • @fischman26-China
    @fischman26-China 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I just visited Weiyan Fort and took a boat ride under Humen Bridge this past November. Fun times in China.

  • @xiongfeichen316
    @xiongfeichen316 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

    Today, China is one of the countries with the strictest ban on drug trade, because a country cannot fall twice on one thing.

    • @oneshothunter9877
      @oneshothunter9877 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JB-lp9xr
      They don't export fentanyl.
      They export the chemicals that fentanyl is made of. Supposedly knowing what they will be used for, of course.
      Sweet revenge. 😎

    • @anandasmom
      @anandasmom 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@JB-lp9xr maybe that's exactly why its being done .... revenge.

    • @xiongfeichen316
      @xiongfeichen316 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JB-lp9xr It's really interesting that the most powerful country on earth has the most powerful economy, military, and of course the most powerful media. He blames China, from across the Pacific, for his inaction on the drug epidemic. Maybe it’s because of such strong propaganda ability that so many people believe it. It’s really ridiculous.

    • @bruceliu9436
      @bruceliu9436 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      better target at britisch, haha@@anandasmom

    • @LightningDoesStrikeThrice
      @LightningDoesStrikeThrice 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Funny how thier manufacturing fentanyl then through trade & funding the cartels huh!? Like the CCP doesn't know or can stop it but they don't seeing as China has OPENLY admitted to be at war with the U.S but of course you live in your American hug box don't you & only America can be bad & racist lol get fking real

  • @suzannejones5992
    @suzannejones5992 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +112

    Learning about history is an essential, imo. It helps you see what is happening in the present. The only difference between China then and Britain now is that the Chinese really tried to stop the use of narcotic drugs.

    • @skunchtv
      @skunchtv 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      don’t forget about the fentanyl China allow labs to ship to the US today

    • @suzannejones5992
      @suzannejones5992 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@skunchtv yes, this is what I am saying. Past actions impact on the present and the future. But remember the obvious culprit is not always the guilty one........

    • @skunchtv
      @skunchtv 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @@suzannejones5992 history repeats itself is a distinctly western expression because we ignore history and it repeats itself 😂

    • @iggy5347
      @iggy5347 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Heyyy, thanks to the British empire, the chinese learned the stock market learned how to make nuclear bombs, learned how to make car plane computer etc etc. Also china exported one the greatest asset the chinese peoples is everywhere chinatown is in every city in the western world. And also the chinese gave hongkong 150 years ago as pirates and drug trafficking to a $500 billions hong kong economy. So china still the winner at the end but with a painful experience

    • @SA2004YG
      @SA2004YG 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@@iggy5347winner in the end?😂 there is no end my guy. Everyone gets a turn, china isnt the center of the world

  • @robertcezar9504
    @robertcezar9504 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    3:47 the emperor shown in the picture is 嘉庆 (Jiaqing), not whatever the narrator said...Qianlong, perhaps...who was emperor in the 18th century, not 19th.

  • @LEXICOGRAFFER
    @LEXICOGRAFFER 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is there a follow up program to this available here? Noticed the "Next Time..." appearing on the screen at closing....

  • @asullivan4047
    @asullivan4047 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Interesting/informative/entertaining . Excellent photography job/📷 pictures/drawings. Enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Special thanks to special guest speakers sharing personal research information. Making this documentary more authentic and possible!!! A lot of money 💰 & misery 😭 in the diabolically evil opium trade!!!

    • @mohdfahmi8841
      @mohdfahmi8841 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      //;;//;//;;//...

  • @ritadighent
    @ritadighent 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    21:00 The spoons are "virtually indinstinguishable"? What a curious thing to say when they are clearly different.

    • @SatSun-op9dp
      @SatSun-op9dp 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Well I think it was a compliment. The Chinese were so skilled in replicating a British good, and she was honest she did say virtually indistinguishable, that they didn’t even use. The skill was so obvious to see.

  • @keefe4484
    @keefe4484 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    interesting information I never knew

  • @juliem2021
    @juliem2021 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I loved the part of this documentary that covered the Boston-Canton trade route. In Salem (of the witchcraft trials) there is a huge exhibit of a Chinese house and artifacts from the time period covered. I never got the full history of that, but now it makes so much sense

  • @jongilchrist7229
    @jongilchrist7229 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

    Modern Chinese history (1836 - present) is one of the most fascinating periods in all of world history.

    • @elizabethpease7603
      @elizabethpease7603 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      I disagree. I think ancient Chinese history is far more interesting.

    • @yiluis1316
      @yiluis1316 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      @@elizabethpease7603
      How is ancient chinese history FAR MORE INTERESTING when in the last 200 years, they just:
      1. Literally cumbled by multiple imperialist movements from Europe.
      2. Ended monarchy at the start of the 20th century.
      3. Ended up poorer than african countries after WWII.
      4. Fought brutal wars at Vietnam and Korea with minimal equipment.
      5. Lifted 800 Million people from poverty in 40 years; the fastest economic growth in history of humankind.
      6. Rose up to be an economic hegemon in the present that will surpass USA in a matter of a few years from now (alredy bigger by PPP)

    • @elizabethpease7603
      @elizabethpease7603 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@yiluis1316 ummmm.. Because it is in my opinion? And China will be lucky not to crumble into tiny pieces in the next five years. It is a 1/4 of the US economy and while its rise has been dramatic, it is in deep financial trouble. Major business backed by the government, especially in the real estate sector are in bad shape. The Chinese people have the majority of their savings in that sector. They have bet the farm on our stupidity about green energy and have cornered the market on rare Earth minerals, even as we seek and are finding them. They have actually made any new technology im the last 60 years, they have stolen it-ever practical. They are destroying their own environment building new coal plants for electricity-what is it-two a week? Their wages are artificially low and prosperity has not reached the whole populace. They are guilty of slavery in the Xin Jiang province with the Uyghur population. They have no real natural resources and stuggle even today feeding their own population. And that population is geriatric and because of a fundamental refusal to mix with other races, cannot be suplemented easily. There are not enough women. The one child policy saw to that. They must have a million man army to keep all of those young and single men as busy as possible. Xi Jeng Ping has expanded his empire rapidly-especially in the realm of debt slavery in Africa and Latin America, and while welcomed by leadership-the are far from loved by the native populace who work for them. Yes of course you have a navy that is currently bigger than ours, but it is not yet capable of matching our blue water Navy. Xi is unlikely to be aware of the rot that inevitably exists at the core of every Communist system, and you can’t steal your way into being the equal of the US economy. We have our share of problems and they are big, but our flexibility makes it less likely that we would crash as hard as the CCP. Xi has I think about 4 years left to make a big move before internal problems make it impossible for China to maintain a huge presence on the worls stage. We are all headed for a big crash - as we are financially over extended and entirely too dependent on the symbiotic relationship between ourselves and China. But when was the last time China had to make a marketing trip the the US to in essence, beg US businesses to invest in China? That was new and unusual. What’s not so new is that in the last 10 years, more and more US businesses are moving out of China. Number 1 they don’t like having their technology stolen-get a load of those new copies of the Boeing jets. 2. Shipping costs are rising so high that it is becoming more feasible and economical to bring manufacturing back to this hemisphere. There are many reasons why China can claim middle kingdom status, but it will never be the power it was in Ancient times. A threat, always. And by the way, it could never have lifted itself out of gross poverty without the help and support of its major rival, and much underestimated enemy, the United States of America. And despite our current dolt of a leader China should not attempt to expand too far, nor should it attempt to take Taiwan. The battle would be bloody, but in the end the US would win.

    • @elizabethpease7603
      @elizabethpease7603 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They haven’t created any real new technology in 50 years. They just steal it.

    • @CallMeByMyMatingName
      @CallMeByMyMatingName 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I like the part where they invented discovery. Nothing more important than discovering things! It's very thank to them anyone can now discover things for themselves, instead of having to invent it!

  • @johnwayne8475
    @johnwayne8475 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    This is an extrodinary piece of history brought to the light, thank you. When you understand the history, then you understand the handing back of HK to China would be one of the happiest days for the Chinese. A pity that so many Hong Kongers themselves don't understand this history.

    • @NeostormXLMAX
      @NeostormXLMAX 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      the angloids killed all chinese whom was patriotic to the motherland when taking over hong kong, leaving only slaves and serfs, those serfs descendants are majority of the angloid bootlickers today

    • @Mr.Sevenn007
      @Mr.Sevenn007 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      history is history. using history to make people accept something they dont want.

    • @felisasininus1784
      @felisasininus1784 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Mr.Sevenn007 L-ck my sph-ncter, colonial apologist.

    • @felisasininus1784
      @felisasininus1784 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@Mr.Sevenn007 We don't care what you people think, it's our land.
      If you got a problem, come and take it.
      Bureau of Tactical Intimidation,
      People's Republic of China 🇨🇳

    • @lilianhui4028
      @lilianhui4028 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      John. It is you who do not only misunderstand, you are also ignorant to criticize the people for their reluctance for Hong Kong to be returned to communist China. That marked the beginning of death to democracy and freedom of speech and expression in Hong Kong.

  • @austinreise
    @austinreise 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    An important learning. Hope folks could see this beyond just the effect of drugs. It can be anything, like ideology, a fad etc.

  • @WildBillCox13
    @WildBillCox13 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Shared.

  • @KeifusMathews3
    @KeifusMathews3 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

    Love learning about china's culture, well done documentary .

    • @alcapone9550
      @alcapone9550 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah ... have fun while learning the winners history 😜
      Edit: Thomas SowellTV!

    • @paladro
      @paladro 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@alcapone9550 plenty of history gets re-written, no telling if that helps or hurts, its all about perspective.

    • @Hindu_Shahi
      @Hindu_Shahi 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I think this was more a documentary about the blood thirsty European culture. Did we watch the same video?🙈

    • @alcapone9550
      @alcapone9550 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Hindu_Shahi getting slaughtered by europeans is in many countries part of the culture of those ... so you both are right ^^

    • @leechaplin7902
      @leechaplin7902 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Go there it an amazing place and you will realise it's not the place the media talks about

  • @jamestregler1584
    @jamestregler1584 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Bravo ! Great job thanks ! I knew about the later history of China and the west, now the onset is quite interesting, thanks again 🧐

    • @mohdfahmi8841
      @mohdfahmi8841 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      //;;//;//...

    • @dznuts123
      @dznuts123 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You don’t know shit. All you learned came from western propaganda. If you ever care about the truth, travel around the world.

  • @JohnAngComedy
    @JohnAngComedy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Summer palace is in cheng de, not chengdu. Geez these are 2 very different places.

  • @judebaber5695
    @judebaber5695 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I really enjoyed this one. I didn’t realise that we, The Brits, were responsible for this trade. I always thought the opium poppy was native to China, and the Chinese were responsible for introducing this drug to the world. Thanks for this video 🙂

    • @yuluoxianjun
      @yuluoxianjun หลายเดือนก่อน

      lol.most sold to China opium is planted in India,JEWS buy them from Indian of UK,and sell it to China with forced gun power.

  • @jenniferogochukwu6886
    @jenniferogochukwu6886 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Now I understand why Chinese are very skeptical of Westerners! I don’t blame them at all.

    • @ayushkumar-bg1xf
      @ayushkumar-bg1xf 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      anyone who is smart will be wary of westener , ukraine was foolish enough to believe in them , zelensky is a comedian with no idea of history . one of reason why you should not elect any tom , dick or harry as president. if he had read history he would have understood divide and rule game played by brits and american in ukraine

    • @tomlxyz
      @tomlxyz 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not as sceptical as of themselves, like in Chinese ads they put white people in because their fellow Chinese have scammed them too often

  • @GSteel-rh9iu
    @GSteel-rh9iu 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    36:30 Yes the British Empire forced farmers in Bengal to grow opium instead of rice. Famines were common during the British occupation of India not before and not after.

  • @user-zx8qq1so7j
    @user-zx8qq1so7j 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Any group of persons who can create items no one else dreams about are bound to become second to none as long as they remember and never repeat the mistakes of the past..

  • @MHerbert351
    @MHerbert351 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Just learn mandarin, and you will be ok.