because that was some really good opium. 

besides, who would you hate more?  someone who sold you opium or
someone who raped your wife and bayoneted your baby?


superoutland@aol.com (SuperOutland) wrote in message news:<e91ad9af.0411161907.2ceab9a3@posting.google.com>...
> In 1839, after the emperors own son had died from drug addiction, had
> hired a moral offficial named Lin TSe Tsu to suppress the illegal
> opium trade.  Opium had long been illegal in japan, because even a
> chink can figure out it isnt healthy for society.  The chinese cracked
> down on opium parlors and opium cargo all along the coast.
> 
> 
> Angry at the chinese government for seizing "their" opium, the british
> launched a series of blockades, bombardments, and coastal plunder.
> When a peace was finally negotiated, the British demanded
> "extraterritoriality", making it effectively illegal for Chinese to
> arrest British drug dealers.
> 
> 
> The worst drug addiction case in history proceeded, but things werent
> even at their worst yet.
> 
> 
> Later, when China was in a civil war, chinese officers mistakenly
> arrested some british smugglers, and the British used the excuse to
> decalare wae.  They demanded money from china and that china formally
> legalize opium, and when the Emperor refused, the British simply
> marched on his palace and burned it down.  France and Russia decided
> to join in on the fun.  Helpless, and in civil war, the Emperor ad no
> choice but to give in.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>   Opium being competley legal now, even china's own merchants were
> allowed to join in on the profits.
> 
> 
> 
> The worst drug addiction case in history proceeded, the long term
> effects on chinese society were atrocious.
> 
> 
> The question is, why do the chinese admmire the british for forcing o
> them opium, and yet hate the japanese?  In the long run, the effects
> of th opium trade (not stopped until CHina joined the allies in WW2)
> were at least as bad.
> 
> 
> Is it because chinese people worship whites, and hate the japanese
> more because they are not white?
> 
> 
> Seems to me the chinese are cowards, forgiving atrocities on them by
> white people but not asians.  Cowardly chinks.