To: 1rudeboy
Hong Kong really came into its own in the 19th Century as the distribution hub of opium provided by the Sassoon family and the British Empire. Opium comes out of the ground and opium addicts need it everyday. Its creates some much wealth that the British Empire went to war against China three times to force it upon the Chinese people.
24 posted on
02/15/2013 11:18:31 AM PST by
Count of Monte Fisto
(Republicans are to the Democrats as the Generals are to the Harlem Globetrotters)
To: Count of Monte Fisto
"Came into its own?" LOL--Is that one way of saying wealth was created? And also ignoring what happened afterward?
26 posted on
02/15/2013 11:21:32 AM PST by
1rudeboy
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