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Why Did Britain Get China Addicted To Opium? | Empires of Silver | Absolute History

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It's hard to believe but silver was at one time worth more than gold. China used silver as their currency and the West had to pay in silver for Chinese goods. This angered the British and so they sought a commodity that the Chinese would be forced to buy. China did not covet any goods that the West had except one: Opium.
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  • This is an amazing documentary series about a topic that's almost forgotten in modern Western societies. I do feel like it still minimized the involvement of Britain, France and Japan in the destruction of the Qing empire. It remarkably leaves out what the British did to Puyi; the last emperor of the Qing, it leaves out the Japanese invasion of China and massacres at Nanjing, Shanghai and other places.

    @Seven-ld9zv@Seven-ld9zv5 ай бұрын

    • Lies again? Olympic Medals Higher Chinese

      @NazriB@NazriB5 ай бұрын

    • Most of those events had nothing to do with China's silver or opium. You could have a documentary about Chinas history with manchu or mongol invasion and some chinese will complain, "why did you leave out the opium and unit 731".

      @Pepe-dq2ib@Pepe-dq2ib5 ай бұрын

    • It’s remembered in many movies.

      @Rorschachqp@Rorschachqp5 ай бұрын

    • I agree that there has been an independent white washing of history from every perspective globally, but there's also a lot of Chinese propaganda trying to re-write history. The 9 dash line for instance. We need to be skeptical of all claims, and practice critical thinking.

      @r2dxhate@r2dxhate5 ай бұрын

    • @@NazriB Are YOU high??

      @adrianseanheidmann4559@adrianseanheidmann45595 ай бұрын

  • "Being foolish and having too much wealth will increase your faults" - Lin Zexu (林則徐)

    @HistoryOfRevolutions@HistoryOfRevolutions4 ай бұрын

    • That’s the tech wealthy in Silicon Valley

      @goodgrief888@goodgrief88823 күн бұрын

    • @@goodgrief888 isnt money so important to all americans mate which has now spread globally since ww2

      @davechristian7543@davechristian754310 күн бұрын

    • Same with drugs and alcohol.

      @user-jg9cr9bj8v@user-jg9cr9bj8v2 күн бұрын

  • I spent several months in china in the late eighties, my first wife was Chinese. Almost no one in the west has any idea the degree to which china today and since the 19th century have been waiting for revenge for being beaten and exploited. It’s a huge motivation in chinas rise.

    @jonnyqwst@jonnyqwst5 ай бұрын

    • I am of Chinese descent. I do not feel that way, however, my forebears do. I agree with you. I also feel like theirs (my forebears as well as China itself) is not an enlightened outlook. Such motivations perpetuate an endless cycle of violence and revenge.

      @S0ulinth3machin3@S0ulinth3machin35 ай бұрын

    • ​@@S0ulinth3machin3 It's easy for the offender to preach "enlightenment", tsk, until they become the victim. The west had NOT been leading with example. Shall we not retaliate when 9/11 struck, cause violence and revenge maybe endless? Oy, there can be exception when WE do it! Boots on Ukrainian soil? Why didn't you chant Matthew 5:39 and have them turn the other cheek to the Russians, so that they can attain the enlightened outlook? FFS.

      @theolich4384@theolich43845 ай бұрын

    • Please don’t use hateful language to describe the Chinese people. The Chinese people regard the history from 1800 to 1950 as a “humiliating history”, which made them realize that being weak would lead to destruction and enslavement. But there is also a famous saying in China: “Because I have been rained on, I want to hold an umbrella for others”. Historically, China has never initiated a war against other countries. We should not impose the Western imperialist value of “the strong should colonize other countries” on China.

      @byakuya3603@byakuya36035 ай бұрын

    • ​@@byakuya3603 no one used any hateful language. That's one of the problems with Asian face culture: any sort of criticism, no matter how mild or constructive, is seen as "hate". The reason that's an impediment is: without criticism, you don't know your weaknesses, without understanding your weaknesses, you can never improve. When I speak of Asian face culture, it's not just China. It's nearly all of Asia. The thing about needing to save face prevents its practitioners from fully recognizing reality. The reality is: no one is perfect. Human beings are flawed.

      @S0ulinth3machin3@S0ulinth3machin35 ай бұрын

    • @@S0ulinth3machin3 yes，you are really true

      @byakuya3603@byakuya36035 ай бұрын

  • So the Americans dumped the tea purchased with opium into the ocean and the Chinese dumped the opium used to buy the tea into the river. Classic.

    @laurenlance8960@laurenlance89605 ай бұрын

    • In fact, China’s destruction of opium was done by reacting it with caustic soda (NAOH), not by dumping it into the river, because that would cause people who drink the river water to get addicted.

      @byakuya3603@byakuya36035 ай бұрын

    • Happy to have been a fish back then 😂

      @sicks6six@sicks6six5 ай бұрын

    • @@byakuya3603 you don't get a addicted from drinking a tad bit of opium infested water mate.

      @adrianseanheidmann4559@adrianseanheidmann45595 ай бұрын

    • ​@@adrianseanheidmann4559Right!? You gotta drink a BIG glass every day for a few weeks....

      @bigboss-tl2xr@bigboss-tl2xr4 ай бұрын

    • Yea cuz the UK was that annoying step dad who tries to tell u what to do but u end up screwing him over because in reality, he cant do a single damn thing.

      @Rstars2o4@Rstars2o42 ай бұрын

  • Makes me wonder if China's role in the fentanyl manufacture and America's problem with fentanyl is a form of payback/learning from the past.

    @philiprobinson3160@philiprobinson31605 ай бұрын

    • Bingo

      @sisofphil@sisofphil5 ай бұрын

    • You just figured that out now?

      @chriscarrol9373@chriscarrol93735 ай бұрын

    • @@chriscarrol9373 yes!

      @philiprobinson3160@philiprobinson31605 ай бұрын

    • It was the raw material for manufacturing fentanyl, and exported to Mexico. As for what Americans wanted to use these, they decided. Of course, I hope they can sell the finished products directly.

      @treedillon@treedillon5 ай бұрын

    • Raw materials are exported to many countries. Why is it that only Americans snack on drugs?

      @wenliu9571@wenliu95714 ай бұрын

  • HSBC: Even worse than you thought.

    @thunderK5@thunderK55 ай бұрын

  • In french, still today, the word for money is "argent", wich means silver. Now I know why. Wonderful series.

    @tilunet76@tilunet765 ай бұрын

    • It comes from Latin. In Latin money and silver had the same name, argentum

      @sofiaponte7993@sofiaponte79933 ай бұрын

    • in romania means also the same and its spelled argint

      @strexpills@strexpills3 ай бұрын

    • Same in the Irish language, Gaeilge, money is 'airgead'

      @LorelleCaimyth@LorelleCaimyth2 ай бұрын

    • The Chinese are doing the same to the US with fentanyl as the British did to China.

      @freekpluimers@freekpluimers2 ай бұрын

    • It's Rome that led to that word. Not China.

      @ems4884@ems48842 ай бұрын

  • The documentary was correctly directed with additional facts i was unaware. Yes, the British modernized chinese harbors and organization but all of this work wasn't done to benefit china. All of the work done by western powers was concentrated around chinas ports in order to streamline the flow of opium into China. Yes silver and tea was a major influence for profits but a kilograms of opium bought in India for 10 pounds would be worth 10k pounds once it reached the chinese coastline. Britain was the first Narco state.

    @reginaldmorton2162@reginaldmorton216224 күн бұрын

    • Yes

      @Taporeee@Taporeee14 күн бұрын

    • I doubt that. Drugs and prostitution had been influential probably since the beginning is it's time.

      @user-jg9cr9bj8v@user-jg9cr9bj8v2 күн бұрын

    • ​@@user-jg9cr9bj8vOf course they were, the Brits just, no pun intended, put the drug trade on cocaine and overran China.

      @PrimoPete@PrimoPete2 күн бұрын

  • Great documentary and with all the documentaries from this channel its a notch up on everyone else.🎉

    @sicks6six@sicks6six5 ай бұрын

  • This is just 1 of the many reasons China has rapidly modernised its military.

    @patrickllt@patrickllt5 ай бұрын

    • Their army is ineffective and undisciplined plus their leaders are hypocrites.

      @johngammon963@johngammon96320 күн бұрын

  • Brilliant presentation of Chinese history that explains why present day China remains hell-bent on modernizing itself.

    @digitalnomad5643@digitalnomad56435 ай бұрын

    • No. China needs to be careful with the liberal democracy. Its creates chaos between left and right like in the US. The US is becoming china 1900 with forever war and high debt . And with US weak gov the fentanyl crisis is out of control

      @iggy5347@iggy53475 ай бұрын

    • If it was modernizing why turn to backwards to Communism? Communism always leads to corruption, ethno-Nationalism, conflict and suffering.

      @snuscaboose1942@snuscaboose19425 ай бұрын

    • * and flooding us with fentanyl

      @natenope7258@natenope72585 ай бұрын

    • Huh?? Have you seen Shenzhen or Shanghai? China has and is modernizing itself although they do it under the Chinese system

      @frankhill4358@frankhill43585 ай бұрын

    • ​@@frankhill4358generational trauma is a helluva thing

      @jnev5572@jnev55725 ай бұрын

  • Chinese people have always used gold, silver and copper as currency, and iron coins have been used in some periods. The problem was that gold was so rare that copper became a supplement at first, and then copper became common and cheap, and silver became the mainstream. By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the growth of the population and the prosperity of the country led to a shortage of silver until the Qing Dynasty, when a large amount of silver was earned from trade with Western colonists, and then new problems emerged.

    @wenliu9571@wenliu95714 ай бұрын

    • Exactly the problems had to do with silver being exchanged for opium not that opium was causing a moral panic. An advisor to the emperor wanted to kill everyone who used opium.

      @kahlernygard809@kahlernygard80915 күн бұрын

  • I didn't know how wealthy Chinese traders were at the time. Probably the richest people in the world. They were worldly wise too, funding and transferring cheap Chinese labour to the US to build the railway network.

    @anticat900@anticat9004 ай бұрын

  • Shedding light on a key factor in modern history ❤

    @Sleigh@Sleigh5 ай бұрын

  • Great series. Learned a lot. Thanks.

    @dildoor@dildoor5 ай бұрын

  • The fact that we get free documentaries on KZhead 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? 😔

    @youngsixty7395@youngsixty73955 ай бұрын

    • It's a gift.

      @olefella7561@olefella75615 ай бұрын

    • Exactly. Haven’t bothered with tv in jonks. The quality of some of these documentaries is extraordinary!! Would be fascinating to watch a thoroughly well researched and objective documentary on the decline of Southern Africa. Sadly it is still playing out so I guess we will have to wait a little longer to see how it plays out. The rise of modern China duplicated in Africa would be good. Just don’t hold your breath.

      @michaeltownsend4644@michaeltownsend46444 ай бұрын

    • @@michaeltownsend4644absolutely!! Imagine watching tv 😂

      @miraeja@miraeja4 ай бұрын

    • the fact that most of it is wrong is worrying

      @TheBillaro@TheBillaro4 ай бұрын

    • // ;;//;//..;;//.

      @mohdfahmi8841@mohdfahmi88414 ай бұрын

  • I learned so much, thanks for the insight. Well done.

    @orlaighsinead@orlaighsinead4 ай бұрын

  • Short answer is they didn’t the British just took advantage of a already large market

    @MrTangolizard@MrTangolizard2 ай бұрын

    • Not large, it was relatively large, but the Brits just overran their economy with more than it could sustain, same thing in India and other British colonies.

      @PrimoPete@PrimoPete2 күн бұрын

    • Remind me what logic have you used? The Brits were the East India Company they enslaved Benagli farmers to grow the Opium, which starved many Indians.... ah sorry I now realise you support Afghanistan growing poppies to supply the huge western markets.

      @pearsonfrank@pearsonfrankКүн бұрын

  • The Brits couldn’t conquer china though, they got India, but not old china.

    @capoislamort100@capoislamort1005 ай бұрын

    • Got the tea though

      @nicholacousins8563@nicholacousins8563Ай бұрын

    • Had the Mughals continued their reign in India, Brits would not get even India.

      @senje4062@senje406218 күн бұрын

    • ​@@nicholacousins8563that's all that matters 😂 ☕

      @howardmonument6093@howardmonument609310 күн бұрын

    • In 1903 The Brits invaded Tibet (they claimed it was to stop an Imperial Czar Russian invasion !!) they were kicked out when the Qing emperor sent troops from Beijing....

      @pearsonfrank@pearsonfrankКүн бұрын

  • China wanted silver for their tea. The British said "no, we're going to introduce an addiction which will allow us to trade opium for tea.

    @terryboehler5752@terryboehler57524 ай бұрын

  • In every chinese household they're reminded of the 8 allied nations stealing and invading China lest they forget

    @Guvnor6@Guvnor65 ай бұрын

    • I hope they are also reminded of Chinese stealing and invading Korea Korea and a dozen other countries for 300 years prior to this. The Chinese were not peaceful victims they were big bullies that met a bigger bully

      @Chunkballfairy@Chunkballfairy5 ай бұрын

    • But they are not taught about Tiananmen square where the army massacred protesting students.

      @atodaso1668@atodaso16684 ай бұрын

    • @@atodaso1668 Exactly! Mao is still lionized Xi appears to be trying to imitate him.

      @here_we_go_again2571@here_we_go_again25713 ай бұрын

    • @@atodaso1668 CIA....don't be naive...it's been the play book of the west...since the Spanish and UK colonization of the world...blame the CIA agents in using the students and in turn they are the murders in Tiananmen sq.

      @dtbetter2277@dtbetter22773 ай бұрын

    • ​@@atodaso1668 did they tell u about the failed CIA operation to overthrow govts and flase flag operation???

      @Rav01508@Rav01508Ай бұрын

  • My dad was addicted to opium at China when he ran out of money he committed suicide .

    @hmj1116@hmj11163 ай бұрын

  • I like the statement about people looking at steamships and thinking they ran on fire. When people look at clouds they think they are looking at a question waiting for an answer instead of a fluid acting in a certain way, with certain colors, in a larger fluid.

    @user-martinpd@user-martinpd5 ай бұрын

  • Another brilliant episode. It is no wonder that China views the West with suspicion..

    @OldDunollieman@OldDunollieman5 ай бұрын

    • Not as much as China views the Chinese with suspicion

      @bibsp3556@bibsp35565 ай бұрын

    • "Jealousy " there fixed it

      @timothy2935@timothy29355 ай бұрын

    • Recent history shows very citizen views its government with suspicion @bibsp3556

      @Happy_Spatula@Happy_Spatula5 ай бұрын

    • @@timothy2935 Too tame. Let’s go with envy.

      @ireneusjustinpolicarp8628@ireneusjustinpolicarp86285 ай бұрын

    • 中国对中国人抱有怀疑？什么意思@@bibsp3556

      @jackychen5578@jackychen55785 ай бұрын

  • Film production used to use up a lot of silver. Kodak went through tons per month.

    @justayoutuber1906@justayoutuber19065 ай бұрын

    • hence "silver screen"

      @OlObuffalo@OlObuffalo5 сағат бұрын

  • A very educational video! The title is a little misleading though, i feel like this video was mostly about Chinese Silver and trade, not about Opium so much.

    @suburbanhoosier4791@suburbanhoosier47915 ай бұрын

    • Yes, thank you!

      @lm6754@lm67545 ай бұрын

    • It is called click baiting. And it is purposefully and carefully crafted to this intent, to gain attraction. Just a wee bit deceptive, but the content is great though, so, forgiven.

      @HuxleyCrimson@HuxleyCrimson5 ай бұрын

    • ​@@HuxleyCrimsonYou aren't wrong about that, but the video made a pretty compelling case that access to Chinese silver from the silver trade *was* the reason for selling opium to China. They needed a product that the Chinese would trade their silver away for, and opium is highly addictive.

      @tylerpentecost9669@tylerpentecost96695 ай бұрын

    • That's the thing, the British caused a massive epidemic of heroin addiction in China just to balance their silver trade with the Qing. Just think about how callous you'd have to be to, fully aware of the consequences, shove one of the most addictive substances known down the throats of a populace. All of it to make India profitable as a colony and also balance the trade deficit.

      @georgevivaldi@georgevivaldi5 ай бұрын

    • //;;//;//;//!!//¡****;;*;;*;*;*;//.?

      @mohdfahmi8841@mohdfahmi88414 ай бұрын

  • Very well produced documentary. I really appreciate voice-over translation when someone speaks a different language. It helps greatly with maintaining the flow and consistency, and allows one to not have to read the spoken words in a video... I wish this video had incorporated that.

    @CallMeByMyMatingName@CallMeByMyMatingName5 ай бұрын

    • Ok 👍 this is KZhead that’s not a possibility and that just costs money. Not everything in this world is designed for you

      @Alphoric@Alphoric5 ай бұрын

    • Most American comment I've read in ages. Just say you are too lazy to read and get on with it.

      @Phyto.@Phyto.5 ай бұрын

    • It gives more credibility to this video if the person interviewed speak what she said originally

      @bill4056@bill40565 ай бұрын

    • It really helps for those who listen to these educational movies while working.

      @ericmunene8521@ericmunene85214 ай бұрын

  • Fun fact :The Opium Wars primarily involved British trade with China, However the British did play a significant role in the Indian tea trade. In the 19th century, the British East India Company controlled India and sought to establish a profitable tea industry. They promoted tea cultivation in India as an alternative to Chinese tea, which had become expensive due to increased demand.

    @jayarajmaduturi3514@jayarajmaduturi35145 ай бұрын

    • just like today US want to trans the supply chain to india😅

      @phouance2673@phouance26735 ай бұрын

    • @@phouance2673 I hope India and China work together to solve problems than repeating history

      @roro4787@roro47875 ай бұрын

    • And India's pm Modi is becoming a puppet again of the BRITISH.History repeat itself.

      @bill4056@bill40565 ай бұрын

    • There was also more than one East India Trading Company.

      @r2dxhate@r2dxhate5 ай бұрын

    • The owner of Hongkong and Shanghai Bank is also British, an Original owners of OPIUM. One of the Surname is Forbes, They are billionaires now because of the opium they had sold to chinese.

      @bill4056@bill40565 ай бұрын

  • This is one of the finest documentaries in this space. Many others cover the Opium Wars and aftermath but the discussion here of the eye-watering amounts of the reparations, the predation by western powers and Japan is astounding. This subject deserves to be better known.

    @rdatta@rdatta5 ай бұрын

    • The previous part of this docuseries dealt with the opium wars.

      @Phyto.@Phyto.5 ай бұрын

    • It is one gigantic drug cartel spread to many western powers. The most scary thing is they have infiltrate the government and the military. Just scary to think how big this cartel is in modern day. I think there is a reason why Japan attack the American harbor. The drug cartel in America may want to interfere with the Japanese occupation in China. There is why u keep hearing on the news about American interest. No body knows for sure if it is the drug cartel interest.

      @AnhNguyen-hn9vj@AnhNguyen-hn9vj4 ай бұрын

    • We know enough about how you treat anyone who is not Han chinese

      @butterflystampede1945@butterflystampede19454 ай бұрын

    • China how not even gotten .01 back from what was stolen from her by Japan and the Western Powers...dangerous time now in the SCS and Taiwan straits....

      @dtbetter2277@dtbetter22773 ай бұрын

  • "Love of money is a root of all evil."

    @droopypie@droopypie5 ай бұрын

  • America & Europe hasn't changed. Their attitude "what's yours is mine, & what's mine stays mine".

    @caneestudio@caneestudio15 күн бұрын

  • The silver part was extraordinary

    @areuokay4984@areuokay49845 ай бұрын

  • Hey guys, I absolutely love this series of documemtaries and I noticed that parts of the movie "The Opium War" are used. There also seems to be another movie about the second opium war used in this documentary but I cannot find it. Do any of you know what this other movie is called and where I could watch it? Thanks in advance :)

    @generalofgermany4385@generalofgermany43855 ай бұрын

  • Man, I love this channel. The documentaries are so damn good.

    @UndaCuvaChikin@UndaCuvaChikin5 ай бұрын

    • Agreed!

      @SCORPIUSANCTUM@SCORPIUSANCTUM5 ай бұрын

  • Just listen to the Brit. He said 'why should Britian be restricted in trade with China. Excuse me, what kind of entitlement is that? What gives Brits the right to trade with China in the first place? China can trade with whom they want, how they want Because they had the goods. That's how business works, they had the leverage.

    @HDsharp@HDsharp5 ай бұрын

    • It seems the brits had the leverage in the end though, no?

      @theodorekorehonen@theodorekorehonen5 ай бұрын

    • The Brits were the bullies of the day, now they've merely been replaced by someone stronger.

      @rusticbox9908@rusticbox99085 ай бұрын

    • @@theodorekorehonen As usual by warmongering. Once a thief always a thief.

      @HDsharp@HDsharp5 ай бұрын

    • Loks like they didn't have a big enough lever after all.

      @bibsp3556@bibsp35565 ай бұрын

    • @@bibsp3556 That's not the point. The point is the Brits couldn't afford to buy tea, they should have shopped at Poundland!😂

      @HDsharp@HDsharp5 ай бұрын

  • These are exquisitely produced documentaries on a fascinating time in History. However they shape the narrative so it is not very clear to what extent colonialism harmed people in India and China. In stark terms over the period 1769 - 1945 over a 100million people in India died from famines caused by colonial food export systems.

    @GSteel-rh9iu@GSteel-rh9iu5 ай бұрын

  • The British can be blamed for a lot, but don‘t mention😮

    @cassandra8620@cassandra86202 ай бұрын

    • The Sassoon family? Those who actually controlled the opium trade and made an enormous fortune from it? The same Sassoon family that only permitted jews to work for them in the opium trade? Isn't it strange how the British are always blamed for the opium trade...but they were not permitted into the opium trade because they were not jewish.

      @saintadolf5639@saintadolf5639Ай бұрын

    • Same goes for Turkey

      @tarakabuddha@tarakabuddhaАй бұрын

    • Emotional damage

      @aldozilli1293@aldozilli1293Ай бұрын

    • ​@@tarakabuddha reason?

      @TheMrkcl@TheMrkclАй бұрын

    • @@saintadolf5639 Everything is Britains fault according to the clown who spew this crooked BS.

      @DEMONIKMINION@DEMONIKMINIONАй бұрын

  • Can anyone inform if the lord Elgin that burned the summer palace was the same that destroyed the Parthenon in Greece?

    @user-po7xn8ri7r@user-po7xn8ri7r5 ай бұрын

    • The one that took the marbles from the Parthenon was the father of the one who destroyed the summer palace.... family tradition maybe?? 😬😳

      @Untapped8819@Untapped88194 ай бұрын

  • Awesome video! Thank you!

    @jimsullivanyoutube@jimsullivanyoutubeАй бұрын

  • I enjoyed the first forty minutes of this podcast. I will return to see more of this interesting and educational video. Thank you.

    @postscript5549@postscript55495 ай бұрын

    • I subscribed to this Channel absolute History. Ni e video

      @bill4056@bill40565 ай бұрын

  • I am a Brit. For 60 years I have been waiting for those we oppressed, enslaved and impoverished to exact their revenge. China is correctly leading the way legally with diligence. Not all Brits are or were bad people but no one has ever sought to apologise or pay Reparation

    @pearsonfrank@pearsonfrank29 күн бұрын

    • I appreciate your comment. 🇮🇪👍

      @SmilerORocker@SmilerORocker9 күн бұрын

    • Stop it you numty. Stop trying to be bloody PC. I'm also a British citizen and also innocent of PAST transgressions our political correct Beta-Britian carried out but reparations? You for real? Tell you what why don't Africa, Rome, Greece, USA and every single country pay reparations for all of the people enslaved for past so called crimes? Where does it begin? Ancient Rome? Be quite with your whingeing of our amazing country and stop trying to get likes by being so beta PC. Rant over 😆 🤣 😂

      @paulforan7291@paulforan72917 күн бұрын

    • ​@pearsonfrank. Stop it you numty. Stop trying to be bloody PC. I'm also a British citizen and also innocent of PAST transgressions our political correct Beta-Britian carried out but reparations? You for real? Tell you what why don't Africa, Rome, Greece, USA and every single country pay reparations for all of the people enslaved for past so called crimes? Where does it begin? Ancient Rome? Be quite with your whingeing of our amazing country and stop trying to get likes by being so beta PC. Rant over 😆 🤣 😂

      @paulforan7291@paulforan72917 күн бұрын

    • Appreciated, I'm a Chinese. I'm studying in Bristol. I love UK and British people, I've been a lot of cites in Britain, I love all those places.

      @Lupescs@LupescsКүн бұрын

  • Thanks. Very interesting history🙏🥰

    @phooichunlau7827@phooichunlau78279 сағат бұрын

  • Great information

    @barbaracrain2975@barbaracrain29755 ай бұрын

  • Why is China getting america hooked on fentanyl?

    @joshuajoshua7257@joshuajoshua72572 ай бұрын

    • Why are Americans getting hooked on it? Did China put us at gun point to take it?

      @1HeatWalk@1HeatWalk2 ай бұрын

    • They're not, Americans are getting America hooked on fentanyl. No other "civilised", "functioning" nation is in this position.

      @DEMONIKMINION@DEMONIKMINIONАй бұрын

  • Send this documentary to the state department

    @davidhill1634@davidhill16345 ай бұрын

  • Because opium is amazing Also, dependency is one's most significant weakness (and an opponent's greatest strength)

    @0riginal_panda_child249@0riginal_panda_child2496 күн бұрын

  • Riveting. Loved it.

    @Waiting_To_Retire@Waiting_To_Retire5 ай бұрын

  • My Mother's family [the Harringtons] as a Upperclass family made one of their financial killings during the Opium Wars!

    @robertvandriest-harrington3651@robertvandriest-harrington36515 ай бұрын

  • Dang. Fascinating 3 part series! Learned more listening (at work) then I ever did and in school

    @equarg@equarg5 ай бұрын

    • LOL, learn more BS, well done fool.

      @DEMONIKMINION@DEMONIKMINIONАй бұрын

  • I love this series.

    @dunkleosteus430@dunkleosteus4304 ай бұрын

  • The shipping company was P&O

    @gregcooks-qr9wk@gregcooks-qr9wk5 ай бұрын

  • Unexpected Wilhelm scream at 24:55 🤣

    @youknowmyname9915@youknowmyname99155 ай бұрын

    • Yes I heard that too 😂

      @markshaw270@markshaw2702 ай бұрын

  • Empires of silver....as I'm in the middle of reading RF Kuang's Babel, this title brings the chills

    @thnwgrl@thnwgrl5 ай бұрын

  • China being synonymous with quality silver feels just so weird

    @DuyPham-xd8lp@DuyPham-xd8lp5 ай бұрын

  • My teacher was right, history is the mother of the future 🙈. Never the same, but similarity is astonishing...

    @mattbonanza9032@mattbonanza90325 ай бұрын

  • Elgin’s family is also associated with theft of marble statuary of the Parthenon.

    @martinphilip8998@martinphilip89985 ай бұрын

    • They plundered every country they went into

      @maralfniqle5092@maralfniqle50925 ай бұрын

    • Not just Elgin. In 1687, during the Venetian siege of the Acropolis, Moslem Turks were using the pagan Parthenon as a store for gunpowder. This was ignited. The explosion blew out the heart of the building, destroying the roof, shattering the statuary and pulverizing parts of the walls and knocking down the colonnade. Wonder what was left to loot.

      @revolutionaryhamburger@revolutionaryhamburger5 ай бұрын

    • @@revolutionaryhamburger When you watch the British version of Antiques Roadshow they will sometimes analyze something they found in the garden. Sometimes this is loot from the destruction of the summer palace. The French had the dirtiest hands in this attack on culture.

      @martinphilip8998@martinphilip89985 ай бұрын

  • In every setback, there is a valuable lesson to be learnt.

    @ethanf.6848@ethanf.68484 ай бұрын

  • TOPCON is going to use a huge amount of silver in its next generation solar panels and probably why physical silver prices are being depressed. Fabulous story about the centrality of silver in civilizations rises and falls and to be continued.

    @DavidVeitch54@DavidVeitch545 ай бұрын

  • "Any goods that the West had except one: Opium" Not entirely. The major source of the drug was a cartle of savage drug dealers from India, a certain Tata. Drugdealing made Tata so rich that they still form the biggest conglomerate in India and their role is measured in percent of total GDP.

    @nvelsen1975@nvelsen19754 ай бұрын

  • The British forced Indian farmers of Bengal to abandon their traditional farming and produce opium. This resulted in severe financial losses and loss of food products in India. The opium was sold in China by the British...the original drug-runners.

    @upadhyayrathiraj1518@upadhyayrathiraj1518Ай бұрын

    • That how the so called ROYAL FAMILY Got so rich. Drug peddlers destroying millions of lives. The Chinese are getting even now though. Fentenyl is destroying America.

      @russcooke5671@russcooke567112 күн бұрын

    • Britain really was an incredibly impressive empire.

      @bonbonbonfire@bonbonbonfire3 күн бұрын

    • ​@@bonbonbonfireyes impressive...... impressively evil and slimy.

      @PrimoPete@PrimoPete2 күн бұрын

  • Because Britain would have went broke if they had to pay for the tea in silver

    @kenmason1461@kenmason1461Ай бұрын

    • They were The Tea Wars

      @robtherub@robtherub24 күн бұрын

  • A very educational video

    @Gettingback997@Gettingback9972 ай бұрын

  • I would highly recommend everyone to check out Kings and General podcast, they covered this period and a deeper dive. This is wonderful!

    @LS1056@LS10565 ай бұрын

  • 14:17 That air looks so disgusting. So much smog.

    @noreply-7069@noreply-70694 ай бұрын

  • Excellent storytelling.

    @NicholasKuhne@NicholasKuhne4 ай бұрын

  • History can be very infuriating, but still beautiful. To be worthy of the gift of that knowledge passed down through generations by sacrifices and struggle, one needs to suspend judgement and see its splendor by not taking it personally, which is already a way to obscure it. History is reality beyond the individual.

    @residentzero@residentzero2 ай бұрын

  • Ahh British hostility--a tale as old as time

    @Ashley-vs8nu@Ashley-vs8nu5 ай бұрын

    • The brits aren't as old as time... lmao

      @paulomartins1008@paulomartins10085 ай бұрын

    • ​@@paulomartins1008 nuance is an art

      @Ashley-vs8nu@Ashley-vs8nu5 ай бұрын

    • “Now let’s all honor the men who died to keep China British.” - John Cleese, “The Meaning of Life”

      @gregbors8364@gregbors83645 ай бұрын

    • @@Ashley-vs8nu Quit trying to sound smart people like you the way you are.

      @rapier1954@rapier19545 ай бұрын

    • @@rapier1954 Shut it Yank.

      @iainreid6292@iainreid62925 ай бұрын

  • What was British India’s role in the OPIUM WARS 💥 and the Indian Gujarati BANIA and Parsi Traders involvement in procuring and shipping Opium should be highlighted as well to understand why CHINA 🇨🇳 and INDIA 🇮🇳 are in Territorial CONFLICT ☠️ even today ‼️

    @arsalanmirza3411@arsalanmirza34114 ай бұрын

  • Terrific ! Thank you. …

    @dao3740@dao3740Ай бұрын

  • Slightly mis-listed as it’s more about China and its reliance on the Silver Standard, although it does cover the basics of the Opium Wars. It is very insightful for us westerners. And good to see history other that WWI and WWII (not that I’m totally against such content, but it’s good to find wider content).

    @teamhandsome1974@teamhandsome19742 ай бұрын

  • Little or nothing to do with the Opium trade and what there is , is according to Chinese historians. Can't wait until the next production " Why did Britain get the World Addicted to Tobacco " or " Why did Britain get the World Addicted to Railways " , then " Why did Britain get the World Addicted to International Trade " perhaps ?

    @georgerobartes2008@georgerobartes20082 ай бұрын

    • Why…? Answer: MONEY.

      @cherchuhaikieu4328@cherchuhaikieu4328Ай бұрын

  • Amazing how a handful of people can drive history; always has been the case.

    @thelastbison2241@thelastbison22415 ай бұрын

    • Now do you see why when people say Jews run the world it’s anti semiotic? Why? Because none of the people mentioned here are Jews. Anyone can rule the world if they care to work that hard.

      @fredm.2699@fredm.26994 ай бұрын

  • It wasn't "Britain" that got China addicted, it was the Honourable East India Company - the largest conglomerate the world has ever seen. Drug trade and Slavery were two of the reasons they were nationalised by the British Government and an end put to their drug and slave trafficking.

    @johnwilson5637@johnwilson5637Ай бұрын

    • ET has nothing to do with Britain, nor British government. Got it.

      @royxuliang310@royxuliang31018 күн бұрын

  • Great documentary, but good grief, the air in some of those cities looks downright hard to breathe.

    @philipstowers4741@philipstowers47412 ай бұрын

    • Suppose thats Britains fault too if you ask these cretins.

      @DEMONIKMINION@DEMONIKMINIONАй бұрын

  • It was disgusting what they did to the Chinese. I remember learning this at school.

    @ShebaQgtgj@ShebaQgtgjАй бұрын

    • Don’t worry China have made up for it in the last 70 years 👌

      @liamburns8554@liamburns8554Ай бұрын

  • Interesting how literally none of this is taught in US history.

    @inkstain84@inkstain845 ай бұрын

    • 所以不奇怪，当犹太人觉得全世界都欠他们的时候，中国人只会想你们的苦难根本排不上号。

      @but_at_what_cost@but_at_what_cost5 ай бұрын

    • in white people history.

      @efnefgedhg139@efnefgedhg1395 ай бұрын

    • We learn like a tiny bit about it in German history classes, but just because Germny had the Tsingtao colony.

      @adrianseanheidmann4559@adrianseanheidmann45595 ай бұрын

    • @@but_at_what_costit’s hilarious how we’re supposed to feel bad for china because they got colonized while ignoring the fact that they were colonizing Korea , Taiwan, Myanmar and Tibet like they got a taste of their own medicine and now we should all be sad.

      @Chunkballfairy@Chunkballfairy5 ай бұрын

    • Too young you only focus on USA😅

      @enilacenilac6168@enilacenilac61685 ай бұрын

  • Unfortunately the one with the bigger stick wins

    @brunojm7282@brunojm72822 ай бұрын

  • 3000 to set fire to 1 palace? That's nuts

    @cjason123@cjason1235 ай бұрын

  • You know being able to print dollars is infinitely better.

    @Willys-Wagon@Willys-Wagon5 ай бұрын

    • Having the entire world reliant on your own made-up currency certainly has its benefits 😌

      @UnimportantAcc@UnimportantAcc5 ай бұрын

  • You already uploaded this video with a different title?

    @Jason-mg2vj@Jason-mg2vj5 ай бұрын

  • Inefficient markets are a problem for people participating in those markets. Inefficient means of exchange is critical

    @BJMStan@BJMStanАй бұрын

  • Summer palace destruction was very bad.

    @brucefranklin1317@brucefranklin131711 күн бұрын

  • China is using the same strategy with fentanyl 💔

    @beckybnyc322@beckybnyc3224 ай бұрын

    • Modern people are not stupid Qing Dynasty people, everyone knows what fentanyl can do, but why do they buy it? By the way, the US has banned the import of Chinese fentanyl, they are buying the raw material that China sells to Mexico, if the buyer has no demand, the seller can't sell the product anyway.

      @nuo.not1033@nuo.not10334 ай бұрын

  • Man I myself I’m addicted to opium , shout out carti

    @eugenearyee5309@eugenearyee53095 ай бұрын

    • It's a lot less destructive than synthetic heroin. Highly addictive, yes, but not nearly as dangerous as fentanyl or oxy.

      @Alsatiagent@Alsatiagent5 ай бұрын

    • Im self recovering from firstly oxy and now have morphin to supplement which is much better. Having traditional opium more available would be nice. But Im quiting it slowly by now

      @SEDATEDSlothRecords6083@SEDATEDSlothRecords60835 ай бұрын

    • ​@@SEDATEDSlothRecords6083 Morphine is addictive also. Try Tramadol it isn't addictive when taken AS DIRECTED!

      @colleenpeck6347@colleenpeck63475 ай бұрын

    • ​@@SEDATEDSlothRecords6083Easy to grow🤷🏼‍♂️

      @bigboss-tl2xr@bigboss-tl2xr4 ай бұрын

  • Moral corruption is the heart of weakness

    @pmmsfc@pmmsfcАй бұрын

  • And now they thank them by sending fentanyl

    @TechkiV@TechkiVАй бұрын

  • her very last words- "those who cannot learn from the story of silver will forced to pay the price" YES! The run-up in silver and gold has begun and it will make 76'-80' look very tame in comparison.

    @johnmichaelkarma@johnmichaelkarma5 ай бұрын

  • China was making the Brits pay for tea with silver, instead of having a reciprocal trade of goods. Tea import barons wanted to keep their silver. So they flooded China with opium from their lucrative poppy fields, located in colonial India ~ so the rigid societal control of China would fail, to the British advantage.

    @PenelopePitstop888@PenelopePitstop8885 ай бұрын

    • what happened when the Chinese tried to stop the import of opium?

      @loneranger9376@loneranger93765 ай бұрын

    • ​​@@loneranger9376the First and Second Opium wars.

      @karabelle67@karabelle675 ай бұрын

    • Because Britain had nothing the Chinese wanted! If you can't convince another country to accept your goods, it's the fault of your sales diplomats not the fault of the Chinese. China didn't force UK to buy tea from them. No one forced the British to trade with China, the British opted to trade with China themselves. China would of remained dominant with or without British trade. So The Chinese was in a position to call the shots. If you then decide to smuggle illegal goods and become illegal drug pushers then that's what you are! And live with a legacy that the British empire was built from the profits derived from importing illegal drugs to China.

      @HDsharp@HDsharp5 ай бұрын

    • ​@@loneranger9376..... It literally tells you what happens in the the first 5 min...

      @g.d.2059@g.d.20595 ай бұрын

    • Thanks to the opium war today china is learning from history, china is opening up to foreign trades,build strong military today with nukes and now sending fentanyl to the US and earns $1 trillions a years. And chinese is everywhere in the western world so thanks to the british empire opened up china by force. Meanwhile the british handed back $500 billions hongkong economy after 150 years (hongkong used to be pirate and criminals infested). Portugal handed back $200 billions macau to china, tibet had returned to china from the british and xinjiang returned to china as well from the anglo french empire. ONLY 1 LEFT GUYS WHICH IS TAIWAN FROM THE USA

      @iggy5347@iggy53475 ай бұрын

  • 21:28 Sheesh .. Look at the smog

    @drakenkraken8455@drakenkraken84555 ай бұрын

  • And now they are returning the favor with fentanyl 😳

    @lauravastag8587@lauravastag85872 ай бұрын

  • China has never forgotten this period in history when it was bullied by the West and its sovereignty was trampled on. Scholars would argue that’s part of the reason why China has risen to world superpower status in such a short amount of time.

    @CryptoX-kr3wu@CryptoX-kr3wu5 ай бұрын

    • Better believe it!!..it's truth!!!

      @BradleyLoomis-wq9yf@BradleyLoomis-wq9yf2 ай бұрын

  • And that is Why we have a FENTANYL problem. Exactly this. China never forgets.

    @cathleenweston3541@cathleenweston35415 ай бұрын

    • That's nonsense. China isn't pushing no illegal drugs. It's the cartels that's shipping them to the US. China just produces them. If they don't, India will be the only produces.

      @HDsharp@HDsharp5 ай бұрын

    • If that's the case, why is it directed at the US, and not Britain? US involvement in the opium trade was much smaller than that of the Britain, so shouldn't it be directed towards the UK? Also in 2020, China unleashed a virus that killed 6 million world wide, while causing immense economic damage, not just to the Western countries, but even more so at home. The world will never forget the crimes of the CCP.

      @wolfu597@wolfu5975 ай бұрын

    • It kills 100k people in usa? Out of 331 million Americans

      @threewishes777@threewishes7775 ай бұрын

    • Holly shit U right there

      @Crew2.Hellcats@Crew2.Hellcats5 ай бұрын

    • They love you long time

      @joedirt3449@joedirt34495 ай бұрын

  • Now Britain has us hooked on insurance and debt......

    @jafo766@jafo7665 күн бұрын

  • This is the number one reason why in Southeast Asia the war on drugs looks very different than its western counterpart.

    @bombardpufferfish2036@bombardpufferfish20364 ай бұрын

  • And of course it won't be a history video without a hidden Wilhelm scream

    @RedRomanov@RedRomanov5 ай бұрын

  • Mans on the left in the thumbnail looks like Mr Bean. Good luck unseeing it.

    @litneyloxan@litneyloxan5 ай бұрын

  • Same reason any drug dealer wants addiction amongst their customers Repeat business

    @Skygt2RS@Skygt2RS5 ай бұрын

  • The aspect of silver is interesting to learn, did not know much about this part of China's history.

    @redrooster626@redrooster6264 ай бұрын

    • Chinese Qing were perfect, it was victim of everything. All problems in China, corruption, poverty, were created by foreigners. That is the education which works well for hate

      @nelumkalachuchi1154@nelumkalachuchi11544 ай бұрын

  • An example of how the brita of that time just had to take and take and take, looting and pillaging. And the artifacts? Of course, STILL in a british museum… not the first countey they did this to. How luch India property is in Brit museums. “We’re saving it from themselves..” i’v heard. It’s THEIRS to do with what they please.

    @diegoknyte@diegoknyte5 ай бұрын

    • Are you aware that all Tiananmen square murals and memorials have been removed in China? They have made it so it was like it never happened, the kids are not taught about it in school anymore. I worked with a guy that was there when the army opened fire into crowds of students. Are you aware how many historical items have been destroyed? All it takes is a new group to rise up and destroy all the artifacts, it happens still to this day.

      @atodaso1668@atodaso16684 ай бұрын

    • Keep crying😂

      @V-if4qu@V-if4qu2 ай бұрын

    • Funny how this crook suddenly care about human right and democracy.

      @DharaSM6991@DharaSM69912 ай бұрын

    • Yeah and they would have been destroyed in the cultural revolution 😂 they’re much safer in the UK. You can come visit them if you like 🤭

      @jamiewalker707@jamiewalker7072 күн бұрын

  • Bet they never covered this story in their schools, huh?🤣

    @imfirstatachaijr.johnner4240@imfirstatachaijr.johnner42403 ай бұрын

    • Because it's exactly that, a STORY.

      @DEMONIKMINION@DEMONIKMINIONАй бұрын
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