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Short video backgrounder. Virtually no one in the West remembers this and those that do likely don't consider it a major historical event of the period. All Chinese are intimately familiar with the Opium War as the onset of a century of humiliation for their country, and the Chinese are extremely nationalistic. Armstrong EconomicsThe Opium WarMartin Armstrong
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: history, Opium War
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Short video backgrounder. Virtually no one in the West remembers this and those that do likely don't consider it a major historical event of the period. All Chinese are intimately familiar with the Opium War as the onset of a century of humiliation for their country, and the Chinese are extremely nationalistic. Armstrong EconomicsThe Opium WarMartin Armstrong
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: history, Opium War
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Virtually no one in the West remembers this and those that do likely don't consider it a major historical event of the period. All Chinese are intimately familiar with the Opium War as the onset of a century of humiliation for their country, and the Chinese are extremely nationalistic.