The First Opium War began as a trade dispute, but it quickly exposed a deeper power struggle between Britain and Qing China.

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In another grim signal of a widening war in northern Burma’s opium zones, last week saw an outbreak of intense fighting between government forces and ethnic rebels, prompting some 50,000 Kokang ...

That’s a really critical moment,” said Peter Seibert, president and CEO of the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia. “Pretty soon after that we’ve got to start looking to the outside, because ...