https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First _Opium_War >18,000–

>>2948109

Still better than state-organised drug dealing.

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>>2948118
The tea must flow.

>>2948118

the defense of one's own benign merchantmen is not in the slightest drug dealing

>>2948338
>T. Eternal Anglo

>>2948338
Selling outlawed drugs is drug dealing.

>>2948109
was there a more JUST war than this? to think the chinks got their reputation destroyed from fucking tea.

>>2948470

If the Chinese considered perfectly legal wares illicit then they could confiscate them after the payment for the goods had been received.

But to act against freely trading subjects of the crown... not at all is that ever going to hold water!

>>2950345
Those "freely trading subjects" were actually doing shady business after the monarch outlawed opium.

>>2951157
Opium was freely available in many places, including the UK, and was never a huge problem. The war was about Britain undermining Qing isolationist mercantilist-style policies.

>>2951214
um no? they destroyed illegal opium which you claimed was legal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_opium_at_Humen
>destruction of 1,000 long tons (1,016 t) of illegal opium seized from British traders

>Qing could have bought all the ships and ship builders in the world
>could have bought entire musket factories to ease the trade deficit while modernizing

JUST

>>2951214
>the war was about ... Qing isolationist merchantilist-style policies
kek

You don't actually believe this do you?

>>2951384

they also could have eased the trade of tea with the Empire

cheapest option

>>2948109
Anglo are pest