I think the Chinese were the real losers: "In the early 1820s, the British East India Company began large-scale production of tea in Assam, India, of a tea var

I think the Chinese were the real losers: "In the early 1820s, the British East India Company began large-scale production of tea in Assam, India, of a tea variety traditionally brewed by the Singpho people.[5]"