The Opium Wars of the mid-19th century were fought between the Western powers and the Qing dynasty, which ruled China from 1644 to 1912. Two wars took place, both fought essentially over the ...

The chaotic country is now a magnet for criminal syndicates, particularly from China, destabilizing law enforcement across ...

The Chinese resisted the opium trade. This led to war, after the Chinese destroyed all the British opium in China. The Chinese army and navy were no match for the British navy. As a result of ...

But for a people already battered by a long war, the opium ban has struck a crushing blow, coming as it does amid an economic collapse which has caused near universal poverty in Afghanistan.

The Taiwanese philosopher-filmmaker James T. Hong (*1972) work: “Three Arguments about the Opium-War” (2015) is an inquiry into the competing narratives and contradictory logics embedded into ...

In interviews with drug-war figures ranging from opium farmers to U.S. officials, Cowell unravels the complex political, economic, and diplomatic web that surrounds the heroin business.

The Taliban boom town is rapidly going bust. The same insurgents who embraced opium to help finance their war have put an end to it, ordering a ban that has all but cleared Afghanistan of poppy ...