Opium
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By the time Europe and China crossed paths in the Opium Wars of 1839-42, a technologically superior Europe had vast military advantages and so forced China into a series of unilateral, humiliating concessions.
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What do we know about the country and the people that we pretend to protect, about the villages where the only one medicine to kill the pain and to stop the hunger is
opium?
Another thing I worry about in the global commons is the threat posed by trafficking, by the movement of narcotics, opium, here coming out of Afghanistan through Europe over to the United States.
Eighty to 90 percent of the world's poppy,
opium
and heroin, comes out of Afghanistan.
And little Billy says, "My father plays the piano in an
opium
den."
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