Key point: London instigated a war of aggression against China in order to force an unequal treaty on China. London started a trend after other major imperial powers saw their success they soon ...

In 1839, England went to war with China because it was upset that Chinese officials had shut down its drug trafficking racket and confiscated its dope. Once again, the Royal Navy demolished its ...

Fifty years after President Richard Nixon’s historic flight to China that heralded closer and warmer ties between the U.S. and the communist country, relations between the world’s top economies have ...

Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar has hit a 10-year peak, with the crop area increasing in all growing regions in the war-scarred country, the United Nations says. In its latest Myanmar opium survey, ...

Two downed U.S. soldiers in rural Afghanistan happen upon an opium-producing family living under a Soviet tank in "Opium War," Siddiq Barmak's baffling second feature. Two downed U.S. soldiers in ...