Liam O'Mara IV, PhDJun 3
Having made #opium illegal, #LinZexu of #China ordered destruction of 1.2 million kilos of confiscated opium on #ThisDayInHistory in 1839. Later that year he sent a letter (link) to Queen Victoria, requesting the drug trade cease. Britain would choose war.
https://zurl.co/sK9Q7
The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial]Oct 29, 2025

How the Opium War Still Shapes Xi Jinping’s Trade Clash With Trump

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/world/asia/trump-china-xi-opium-trade.html

bs2Feb 14, 2024

> ".. if gain-seeking desires had not cauterised their souls" Governer of Canton Lin Zexu

> ".. we should thus certainly put a value on riches and slight men's lives" Chinese Commissioner Keying

https://archive.org/details/indochineseopium00hillrich
#JSpencerHill in #IndoChineseOpiumTrade
/HT #AmitavGhosh in #SmokeAndAshes #OpiumTrade #DrugWar #OpiumWars #DrugWars #LinZexu

The Indo-Chinese opium trade : considered in relation to its history, morality, and expediency, and its influence on Christian missions : Hill, J. Spencer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

vii, 95 p. ; 17 cm

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