Britain didn't go to war over territory, ideology, or assassination. It went to war because China refused to buy drugs. In this video, we uncover the full story of how the British Empire engineered a narcotics pipeline from the poppy fields of Bengal to the harbors of Canton, addicted millions of Chinese citizens to opium, and then launched two devastating wars when China tried to shut the trade down. The result? Unequal treaties, the seizure of Hong Kong, the burning of the Summer Palace, and the beginning of what China still calls its Century of Humiliation — a wound that shaped the modern world and still echoes in geopolitics today.

We cover the East India Company's calculated monopoly on opium production, the chronic British trade deficit that started it all, Commissioner Lin Zexu's dramatic destruction of 20,000 chests of opium, the military campaigns that shattered the Qing Dynasty, the Treaty of Nanking and the cession of Hong Kong, the Second Opium War and the destruction of the Yuanmingyuan, the 99-year lease of the New Territories, Margaret Thatcher's negotiations with Deng Xiaoping, and the 1997 handover that marked the symbolic end of the British Empire.

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Flavour appreciates the beauty of black women in his single, "Black Is Beautiful."

Directed by Trademark Pictures in South Africa.
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Lila Iké - What it Feels Like (Official Music Video) [Feel It Riddim]
Listen/Stream here: https://ineffable.to/lilaikewhatitfeelslike

Produced by The Indiggnation & Winta James
In.Digg.Nation Collective under exclusive license to Ineffable Records

Directed by SAMO

Lyrics:

Is this what it feels like
To be loved like this?
I don’t know but it feels right
And it’s just one kiss
Falling in love inna real life
Ignorance sure feels like bliss
Cause I’ve been missing out
But you’re with me now and I’m
Just so grateful for your love

Re-reading conversations
And smiling off my face
Laughing at the way you say things
You’ve really got a way
Reliving every moment
Looking forward to the day
I won’t have to let you go
Just hold me close

Is this what it feels like
To be loved like this?
I don’t know but it feels right
And it’s just one kiss
Falling in love inna real life
Ignorance sure feels like bliss
Cause I’ve been missing out
But you’re with me now and I’m...

Aye, you ever wake up
And cya think ‘bout no meal
Becau’ you weak inna yuh knees
And caught up inna yuh feels
You eva fed up and haffi rewrite yuh speech
Is like the feelings too real
You all a send and delete
You ever lay down but cyaa sleep a night
Like without we one another, no, da bed ya no nice
Feel a yearning
Fire burning
Tell me have you ever been in love

Is this what it feels like?
To be loved like this
I don’t know but it feels right
And it’s just one kiss
Falling in love inna real life
Ignorance can feel like bliss
But I’ve been missing out
But you’re with me now and I’m
Just so grateful for this love

Just so grateful

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🎵 Before 10 — Ọheneba


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