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Looks like irony ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion
by zhengiszen 10y ago
Looks like irony ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion
- jlarocco 10y agoDefinitely ironic. Some of the earliest drug laws in the United States were enacted to discriminate against (primarily Chinese) opium users.
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoNote that it was primarily the UK, not the USA, who were the ones started pushing opium on Qing China (and were the most successful, it would be more ironic if they were sending opium to the UK). Also, the boxer rebellion comes long after the opium wars. Anyways, if that many opiates are being exported to to the US, one has to wonder how many are sloshing around inside China itself.