“ China gets its long-awaited revenge for the opium the West pushed on them?”
US didn’t have anything to do with opium in the Qing Dynasty almost 200 years ago.
Are you on drugs?
You must be on drugs. The person who posted said “the west” not the US.
I wish.
Sorry, ifinnegan, you need to brush up on your history. The U.S. was ABSOLUTELY involved in selling Opium in China during the Qing Dynasty. The U.S. got involved almost immediately after the Revolutionary War ended, and it was called Old China Trade.
By 1820, the U.S. had passed France as the no. 2 seller of opium into China.
Among those those involved was John Jacob Astor, Washington Irving, John Murray Forbes (Great grandfather of John Kerry.) FDR's maternal grandfather made his fortune in selling Opium in China.
And the U.S. signed a very unequal treaty with China in 1844. They got everything the U.S. got, and more.