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I think that we can certainly say that China's, in many ways, very tragic modern history from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, is in part actually also a story about

trade. Ran Amitter is a renowned historian of China and a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School.

When I asked him about the historical context of Donald Trump's trade war with China, he suggested

we take a step back, like the best part of 200 years back to the opium wars of the 19th century.

So the phrase opium wars refers to that period starting 1839 when essentially British warships basically bust open the door of China.

They want to sell opium into China's territory.

The Chinese government at the time, the Qing dynasty, the empire, does not want opium

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