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The Tea Thieves: How a Drink Shaped an Empire
Space Cowboy > writes:
> Im no romantic. It was a negative trade silver imbalance before opium
> ie silver was the only thing the Chinese would take in trade. Opium
> was introduced for a positive trade balance of silver to England to
> fund wars in Europe.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yk3c64p
Right.
/Lew
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