Kawal Deep Kour’s Ghazipur, The Opium Mint: From 1820 to the Present unearths a fascinating history that intertwines colonial ...

Escaping persecution in Baghdad, David Sassoon arrived in Mumbai and built an empire of trade, philanthropy, and architecture ...

Simply severing the supply chain is not sufficient, the challenge is also to curb the demand for the drug. Read more at ...

From 2011 to 2024, China's defense budget surged by 76%. In 2023 alone, military spending hit 1.55 trillion yuan (roughly ...

resembling a 'reverse' scenario of the Opium Wars in the mid-1800s that weakened China's global position, according to a report from Radio Free Asia (RFA). The Tribune, now published from ...

Alexander the Great’s army may have introduced Anatolian opium into Iran, a history implicit in the linguistic connections between Greek opion, Persian afyun and Indian afeem. Mercantile networks ...

By citing fentanyl as the reason, the US government announced in late February that it would hit goods from China with a new ...

In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused China of waging a "reverse" Opium War over fentanyl, suggesting that Beijing may be "deliberately" flooding ...

Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid assembled from chemical precursors often produced in China, is only the latest opium-related flashpoint between China and Western nations, which fought two wars in the ...

Previously, Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly claimed that she and former prime minister Justin Trudeau had "asked for ...

During the Prohibition era (1920-33), when alcohol was banned in the United States, the American Mafia, along with other ...