When Trade Wars Turned Bloody: The Opium War with Stephen Platt
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The Dragon Awakening
There's a quote that Napoleon gave at the very end of his life when he was cooped up in St Helena to someone who was dropping by on his way from China back to the UK. He said, the worst thing you could have done for a number of years would be to go to war with an immense empire like China. This whole idea of the dragon awakening is certainly bearing out today and she's China I think.
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