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I have heard the Qing dynasty regulates and sold opium to their own Chinese people, and that the only difference with the British was the low price and huge supply they brought. We’re the Qing pure victims of British opium export or were they previously complicit as well?

by /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov in /r/AskHistorians

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