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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 OP 16 Apr \ parent \ on: China 'ready for war' w/ America and Sec Hegseth Comments Evaluated Politics_And_Law
September 1839 I actually could not find a source that said it started in 1940 as even the British Government and China state it started in 1939 but according to you both governments are wrong lmao the ignorance is beyond me...
In spring 1839 the Chinese government confiscated and destroyed more than 20,000 chests of opium—some 1,400 tons of the drug—that were warehoused at Canton (Guangzhou) by British merchants. The antagonism between the two sides increased in July when some drunken British sailors killed a Chinese villager. The British government, which did not wish its subjects to be tried in the Chinese legal system, refused to turn the accused men over to the Chinese courts.
British warships attacking a Chinese battery on the Pearl (Zhu) River during the First Opium War, 1841. Hostilities broke out later that year when British warships destroyed a Chinese blockade of the Pearl River (Zhu Jiang) estuary at Hong Kong.
Also would love to see some evidence of this supposed air lift of Japanese forces from China. Were surrendered forces returned? Of course as with POWs.
You did help me remember of The Hump which was a daring thing again for arming China during the conflict.
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