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The Opium War was the conflict maintained China and Britain between 1839 and 1842. The same trigger was the introduction in China of opium grown in India and marketed by the company British East India, the minister of India.
This substance (a narcotic drug) was a major source of revenue for the British and served to its balance of payments with China to offset the cost of the huge amounts of Chinese tea that Britain mattered.
But opium trade was rejected and banned by the Chinese government .
emissaries sent by the British and Indian traders complaining about the grief that such a ban was causing to their interests decided to the British Crown to send a fleet of war that eventually defeated China .
Following that defeat the Chinese emperor had to sign the Treaty of Nanking , laying forced China to free trade - including opium the - with England, with five ports (the important of which Canton) well as the cession of Hong Kong Island for 150 years.
This conflict and its resolution in favor of British imperial power facilitated the entry into the scene of other powers like the U.S. , France and Russia that forced China to sign several agreements that have been termed " Unequal Treaties." As a result of them, in 1860 China was menaced to open eleven more ports to foreign trade with a corresponding impairment of sovereignty.
This substance (a narcotic drug) was a major source of revenue for the British and served to its balance of payments with China to offset the cost of the huge amounts of Chinese tea that Britain mattered.
But opium trade was rejected and banned by the Chinese government .
emissaries sent by the British and Indian traders complaining about the grief that such a ban was causing to their interests decided to the British Crown to send a fleet of war that eventually defeated China .
Following that defeat the Chinese emperor had to sign the Treaty of Nanking , laying forced China to free trade - including opium the - with England, with five ports (the important of which Canton) well as the cession of Hong Kong Island for 150 years.
This conflict and its resolution in favor of British imperial power facilitated the entry into the scene of other powers like the U.S. , France and Russia that forced China to sign several agreements that have been termed " Unequal Treaties." As a result of them, in 1860 China was menaced to open eleven more ports to foreign trade with a corresponding impairment of sovereignty.
(Text: clasesdehistoria.com)
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