[tired&retired]

It’s China’s Opium Wars in reverse.

[Tell It Right]

Agreed. I've read a lot that China as a culture (perhaps promoted by RCC propaganda) is obsessed with what they call their century of humiliation. And that includes the Opium Wars. Like you, I have no doubt that they are using their knowledge of the past (which our culture refuses to learn from) to wage war against the west in a way that gets even for the British opium wars against China (that the U.S. marginally participated in).

An argument could be made that China's culture loss of the Opium Wars led to them being easily defeated years later by a small nation called "Japan" during WW2. If Japan hadn't made the mistake of bombing Pearl Harbor, China today would probably still be Japan's comfort woman. China today is weakening their savior nation, the U.S., in the same way that the Brits weakened China in the past (with drugs).