How Britain Got China Hooked on Opium I Empires of Dirt
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2020
- VICE World News host Zing Tsjeng delves into her own family history to remember that time the British Empire was one of the worst drug pushers in history and got China hooked on opium.
Empires of Dirt is a show about Europeans getting rich at the expense of everyone else. VICE World News host Zing Tsjeng uncovers the ugly history of the European colonial empires they don’t teach us in schools. Countries around the world were looted for their treasures, people were oppressed and exploited and European powers relentlessly profited. The far-reaching repercussions of colonialism are all around us, from our financial institutions to the food we have in our cupboards at home - and it’s about time we took notice.
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the Chinese authority joined opium trade?
then you cant blame UK for that.
@ I think the west has become too tolerant and self destructive
A series from Vice worth watching for once.
It is blowing my mind that they are people in the comments who are accusing Chinese for what ? Counterterrorims in Xinjiang,abolishing slavery in Tibet? Do some people realise what the West has done to the world?Americans to Indians,Spanish to latin America,France to Africa and Indochina,Belgium to Congo,Italy to Aithiopia,Holland to Indonesia,Germany to African and East Europe...It coulb be made thousands of episodes of these series.Today all the thirld world is exploited through debt which belongs to American ,british,european banks but yeah blame China,blame the victim.
@@ThePatata200 yawn 😴
Pablo escobar : I am the biggest drug dealer of all the time.
Britian : Hold my tea.
Griselda Blanco was the biggest. Pablo was her employee.
David Sassoon: I'm the real boss behind British opium trade. Ever wonder why British granted Israel independence?
🙌🏻
That doesn't make sense, china mostly cultivated a drug then the British sold it back to them? Sounds like someone got played.
Ironically it was Britain’s addiction to Chinese tea that made them push opium into China
CIA: "I will finish, what you've started"
"..........only our Opium Farmers will be in Afghanistan instead of India"
Nail on head. Everything is bad unless the whites are doing it.
ua-cam.com/video/2C84koMOUng/v-deo.html 🔥🔥
Would MI5 not also be likely affiliated with this? Or KGB, even the MSS agencies?
lol, be careful what you say here wizzzer, they have detailed lists in the US
Killed Indian farmers who didnt grow it and fought the Chinese who refused it! Doing it the ol' British way!
Ah ha yes the British way,Rob you ,then help u look for your money.
@@celtickshatriya4306 Ah ha yes the British way expect they never did any of that. Don't listen to this girl on the video. She's an idiot. The Chinese Emperor was also an idiot and that's why the war happened. It didn't have to happen but the Chinese thought of themselves as the strongest nation on earth and seen the British Empire as a weak foreign thing. Guess what happened after? The British crushed them. It was humiliating for the emperor and the dynasty
@@JJaqn05 shut up, dont try to justify invading a nation and selling drugs because someone didnt want to have their population addicted to a horrible drug that ruin people lifes, at least he tried to protect his nation unlike the British empire that during the 19th century never cared about their citizens and sent childrens to factories and killed irish in the millions
@@salaminedandco.588 They didn't kill the Irish in millions you fool. The Irish population was only a few million. And how i'm a justifying anything when i already said the British rightly crushed them. You clearly don't know history. China thought they would get an easy win. They didn't. They lost. And they gave us Hong Kong. That's what they get for invading nearby Asian land from other countries. "19th century never cared about their citizens and sent childrens to factories" that wasn't an empire thing. That was just how it worked back in those days and even today it still remains the same. The few richest people on earth have more money than 4 billion of the poorest people on earth.
The British empire was ruled by racist pricks that lead to the creation of Apartheid in south África, White Australia and the masacre of native people unlike any other europeans ( just look and Canada and USA population of natives compared to the rest of America)
They did a lot of advancements in science but where evil non the less.
A lot of Chinese and people of Chinese descent can still recount stories of how their great parents sold everything they had and bankrupted themselves to feed their opium addiction. Back in those days, there was no rehab, no treatment, and medical science in drugs and addiction was nothing like what it is today.
Up next: how the American gov got its OWN citizens addicted to opioids
Actually they allow Pharma companies to sell opium in pills. 2% of American used it a box of opium is 40 dollar or maybe even more it cost 3 dollar to produce.
America government like every government wont tell everything about what they do. I think they must recieve money from those Pharma Billion dollars companies.
Synthetic opioid precursors and methods came from CHINA, Mexico receives help from CCP CHINA to poison AMERICA
El Comodo nah it’s just easier getting it into mexico than the us. Cartels make their orders and off they go. It’s kinda hard to order drugs online in US without the fbi and cia up your arse
ua-cam.com/video/2C84koMOUng/v-deo.html 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@mariorbh wasn't there another part of the story where CIA sold the drugs to inner city blacks in LA?
We would like to congratulate drugs for always winning the war on drugs.
Congratulations on druggies that have overdosed on drugs!
@@joekidd777 Drug addiction is caused by childhood trauma and/or mental illness. Lacking empathy for those who are vulnerable is not a natural human trait and a sign of sociopathy and low interpersonal intelligence.
@@jp8649 it was more of a very badly delivered joke.
That’s not really true though. Just because there will always be drugs doesn’t mean it’s pointless to have a war on drugs. It’s about limiting it.
Of course not all drugs are the same, weed should be legal. There’s a reason it’s becoming more legal in more places and that’s because unlike drugs like heroin, meth and cocaine, society can tolerate weed.
@@Jackholiday1025 its as foolish as any war america wages of inanimate objects, concepts, and human behavior. its fascist control of a world that will be the way it is no matter how hard you fight it. fighting it is an excuse to hold more power, but like the war on "terror" it was lost the moment it was waged.
It's quite sad that there are people in Britain today who are proud of the British Empire. I used to be one of them. They need to hear about things like this. Also the trans Atlantic slave trade, the Amritsar Massacre, the Boer concentration camps, the partitioning of India, the Mau Mau uprising, famines in India and the potato famine in Irland.
The important thing is that you saw the light and accepted it was one of the worse crime syndicates ever
No Name cretin
@@classicepisodesofcrimewatc9971 Idiot
IF YOU BELIEVE THESE PROPOGANDA LIES FROM COMMUNIST CHINA YOUR A SUBLIMINALLY REPROGRAMMED ROBOT ENSLAVED TO CHINA VIA YOUR SMARTT PHONE.
@@morgandaniels4178 They are sadly not lies. uk is evil
Please do something about the ‘Irish famine’, and how it was actually genocide not famine. Ireland had enough food to feed its starving population but yet the British continued to ship food out of Ireland. Leaving people to starve to death, people literally having nothing but grass to eat. The effects of British colonialism on Ireland is not nearly talked about enough.
No because it’s wasn’t a genocide they didn’t have enough food it was potato blight that was all throughout Europe in the 1840s yes England was exporting food but that doesn’t make it a bloody genocide
Sadly
They did the same thing in India, 'Bengal famine' millions died
@@Nuke.n ... 1943 when Britain had something rather more pressing to worry about.
Quite true. The Brits stamped out Irish culture and left them to starve. Now people in Ireland speak English and the population still has not returned to pre-famine levels. It’s a shame not enough people know about this episode of genocide.
And kids that's the story how Hong Kong became British territory
The land where the sun never sets
LSDPapa m.ua-cam.com/video/4VmBQfyxHXA/v-deo.html
Hong Kong became British territory because one steam powered destroyer took out the entire Chinese navy in an afternoon.
Might equals right and power trumps diplomacy, if you want to see it in action today look at Chinas land grab in the South China sea.
@SWAT Kats Nah, the Chinese millionaire elite love sending their kids here to study and buy expensive handbags.
they won't want to rock the boat to hard because if there's one thing the Chinese elite love it's living outside of China.
And India are pretty chill, there's a large population already in the UK that are very integrated the and the UK and India have a generally good diplomatic relationship.
@SWAT Kats you have no idea what you're talking about
Queen Victoria "The Pusher"
Drug dealer.
@@peterkovinski8476 what do you think pusher means Einstein
@@manbun5194 I would have went with the queenpin my myself
@@manbun5194 drug pusher=dealer
it certainly enabled her to get some nice stuff though
I'd love to see a video on how the Brits "handled" the great famine in Ireland
Why? So you can say "Oh, the Brits, they are monsters!" Ain't the question. Question is: How are the Brits now? And the Irish? (Nah, forget that last - the Irish aren't any more, they get their policies wholesale from the EU).
Yes all the Irish forcefully thrown out of their own homes, and men woman and children dying by the side of the Rd, with green lips, stained from eating grass,whilst they prevented aid ships getting through.
@@tonyves at least they have a better lifestandard than the UK and a much better políticas stability unlike the UK where independent movements keep on growing.
You cannot donate more than the Queen. Queen had a face to protect.
That nation grew potatoes and only potatoes, then got surprised when they went without food during a potato famine.
Funny thing is Brits didn’t grow this crop on their own lands, they forced Indian farmers to grow this harmful crop, seized it and then sold it for massive profits illegally in a foreign land. I mean the levels of injustice is crazy!
the more i learn about what the brits have done around the world... dyk they enacted a scalping proclamation in nova scotia to reward anyone who brought in a distinctive scalp of a mi'kmaw man women or child, as cornwallis was trying to clear the land of the first nations so he could present it as a feather in the crown for the british monarchy. nova scotia never bothered to remove the proclamation, so technically anyone could scalp a mi'kmaw and get paid for it. and knowing canada, they would shrug their shoulders and say it wasn't their intention to disrespect the first nations by letting the proclamation stand 😉
No, they sold it to balance the unequal trade policies imposed by the Qing, and the Chinese merchants who defied their emperor to get hold of it were the ones who made massive profits.
PLEASE MAKE SOMETHING LIKE THIS ABOUT WHAT THE DUTCH "VOC" DID IN INDONESIA OR WHAT BELGIUM DID TO CONGO!
That's a great idea for a video.
They will. They just started from the biggest Empire and would gradually come down...
Its king leapold ll not Belgium but yeah
Would be against the hate the British Empire but be a privleged child of the British Empire living in the UK narrative!!💪😎🖕🇬🇧
@@yungstallion2201 Knock it off. Belgium is responsible, not just one individual.
I like how in school I got taught about Vikings, Romans and WW2 etc but they conveniently forgot to mention anything about China and the fact the British traded drugs or got into wars with the Chinese and took HK and destroyed the royal palace Beijing
There's not enough time in school to teach every part of history and it's hardly even a major part of Britains history so you have to educate yourself.
Narrating history I get it but what is the relevance of this propaganda video to the today's world other than helping Chinese communist regime over the country that is their home today? She sounds like a traitor to the country she is sucking as of today. Creating hatred and denigrating a country you live in is plain dishonest and treasonous.
@@impyrobot I learned about the Opium Wars in eighth grade. There is _absolutely_ enough time to teach a good amount of history.
@@dweebteambuilderjones7627 I said every part did I not?
Thief never wants to admit what he has stolen
the empire of dirt series is amazing and will become a valuable learning resource for many years to come. thanks Zing!!!
This person's name sounds American but he spends his day defending Xi and China
This is not history it is communists propaganda
Empire of dirt is a bunch of left wing propaganda
She’s a filthy communist
First, the definition of a ďrug đealer is a person who sells ìllegal đrugs. But what is happening is selling öpium ëxtract is légal in both UK and the Qìng at that time. So this statement is ùntenable.
well, she missed the part on how it was grown in India, the peasants were forced to grow the plant in place of food crops, causing 31 famines in India in their rule compared to 2 famines India had ever in the history of its existence. yes just 2 famines in its history despite being first human civisilation, and 31 in just 200 british rule.
Very correct 👏👏👏
First human civilisation?
Uhhh no. India was not the first civilization.
Fact: before trading opium in exchange of chinese goods, british used to do trade in silver but it was a drain of precious reserves and as usual they wanted to find cheaper alternative of silver. When they got hold of fertile lands in India, they started mass plantation of opium and that's how they started trading opium instead of silver.
No they used to exchange in gold and Chinese kingdom only used Silver so they had to exchange golds for silver and then they gave those silver to buy tea. It's very costly for them and that's why opium war started
They forced Indian subcontinent farmers to cultivate opium in thier lands
@@BG-qf7kc which less food to grow and more famines for Indians. Both Chinese and Indian lives didn't matter to the British only greed and power.
Yea your right but they wouldn't of started growing opium if the chinese emperor decided not to sell the British tea
@Jay Difference between a group of people in a country doing it versus a country's government thats doing it
There was a man who ran for President of the United States several times named Lyndon Larouche. Everyone thought that he was a nut job. One of the claims that he made was that the Queen of England was a drug dealer. What he was really talking about, was, that the British Royal family made part of its enormous wealth in part from the Slave trade and the opium trade. I believe the family was one of the original charters of the East India company.
it gets better: they still sell, why do you think they are still in afghanistan? and it gets even better: Mao made a deal back then to make the opium trade in reverse, they sold opium to the west, its really amazing in what a fucked up world we live
@@rusalkin I was fighting in Afghanistan and not once did I ever witness any Brits dealing with opium or Heroin so stop talking silly!
He was a nut job, of course. He had ideas for ridiculous public works projects like a system of aqueducts running across North America. He later served time for mail fraud.
The east India company made money off slave trade as well
@@rusalkin Yeah, America isnt involved in the drugs trade at all. I mean the CIA wasnt involved in trafficking narcotics .....
Europeans track record of shear brutality across this planet for centuries just keeps getting better! You’re on a roll, Europe!
Weren't the mongols, wich are Chinese to an extent, the ones who decimated 25% of the worlds population under Gengis Khan?
Short note: Under British law, opium was once considered as property and asset of the British government. Destruction of British government assets by foreign country was considered an act of war, therefore, chinese destroying opium was considered an act of war. Hence, the Opium War of 1840.
Of course, the British government was itself running a drug racket 😂😂😂
so kinda like putin making it illegal in other countries for anyone to remove or destroy statues of russians: he actually tried to bring charges against a nation for removing a statue given to them. or like the brits allowing cornwallis to enact the scalping proclamation to scalp any mi'kmaw man woman or child to clear the land for the british (that is still in the books in nova scotia) bcuz they declared the first nations were "savages" who didn't know of the brits' racist sexist christian god, therefore they couldn't possibly own their own land
all that tells you is that briish govt was a massive drugdealer
briish govt was a terorisorganization.
I like how she ended it because it's true Pablo Escobar has NOTHING on the British Empire. I remember when I first learned about this a few semesters back, it was completely heart breaking. It's just super infuriating how much governments actually get away with! I enjoy these little segments!
But the numbers she was talking didn’t really seem Escobar ish at all the man wiped his ass with a hundred million
look at america’s history like stealing half of mexico, mass atrocities for natives and the korean and vietnam people, and oh yeah the fucking racial discrimination that is tearing your country apart and has been for 300 years. after that you can start to talk about the british empire selling opium
where do you think all this fentynl comes from Chinese companies and the Chinese Communist Party let's these companies ship this poison around the world it's called drug warfare. O ya wait the still have consintration camps and are ethnically cleansing an entire race of chinese muslims. CCP needs to be stopped at all costs.
@@arrangormley5594 Wait, America stole land from Mexico which was stolen by the Spanish? Welcome to how human life has been carried out since time immemorial snowflake. Tribes improved their lot by conquering others, and virtually no culture was exempt. Some were just better at than others.
@@ryankelly4111 yes mate I already made a comment saying that they also like producing crystal meth as well which is a lot more dangerous than opium.
Strange how the only drop in supply more recently was when the taliban took over Afghanistan, western forces put an end to that quick and resumed the supply.... nothing has changed
Western soldiers destroyed tons of fields of opium that were being used to fund the Taliban, there's videos on YT, articles, plenty of proof.
Eddie Pancho Yes, and now western soldiers are guarding opium fields, causing opium production in Afghanistan to rise tenfold. Plenty of video evidence to support that as well-if you bother to look for it.
@@zumis1011 some of it was destroyed just for the cameras. They do that everywhere. But behind the scenes...😏
That's what I was thinking
@@swatkabombonica4103 ah yes the leftie tosser who lives in their basement and thinks they know what happens in the frontlines.. don't forget the soldiers are human beings who have morals as well, they can mutiny if something bad was happening.
Fantastic eye opening series. A friend forwarded me an episode and now I'm avidly watching them all. Thank you
Next video should be "How China made us hooked on TikTok"
Britain: Try this opium
China: Try this fentanyl / carfentanyl / spice
🤣🤣🤣
China: Also Meth
😂😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣
This British Empire stuff was a long time ago. Drugs weren't viewed in the same way back then by anyone in the world. Sherlock Holmes took cocaine, which was normal then. On the other hand, what China is doing is very current.
@Densebrains I'm not actually Japanese, if that's what you're thinking.
じゃみっと Hate to break it to you mate but Sherlock Holmes is fictional
The Tiwa tribe in Assam, India, grew opium on the command of the British. However, local consumption was banned directly. If you wanted to consume opium, you had to take it from Bristish stores. (I am from Assam, India, where opium was largely cultivated during British rule.) Now I know, what British were doing with that opium.
You are 100% correct
Exactly!
Truly well done video with great perspective & facts on the whole thing! #VICE #Underworld 🤟
This piece was BEAUTIFULLY done! It is so strange how most of the world forgets the centuries of misdeeds carried out by the UK. Thank you for sharing about your great grandfather. YI am sure your family is very proud of you and your journalism career. Please make more Empires of Dirt!! Many more!
Your cherry picking.The Chinese were alreadyTrafficking before the Brits arrived, is just one sheer volume affected their control, that they Started getting upset.The Brits also did a lot of good e.g. ending the global aand ancient Slave trade (Against other Nations wishes), improving infrastructure, whereas the French still have their empire, in a matter of speakiing, because of theContinued forcing of ecconomic linkage to the French econom, Through currency, tied into the French economy.The Brits left their Empire didn't do this, so now they have a Commonwealth of positive trading relations
@Jefe Greedy You poor, unfortunate soul.You know nothing about history.The opium wars started in 1839, by which time Britain was already the most dominant nation, in the history of the planet, economically and militarily and had been for many decades. I am not a patriot, because I hate exploitation of any kind, but unlike you, delusional Yankees, I do insist on being objective about things and calling out BS.Fact is that the Brits, were the only empire, who actually had positive humanitarian aspects to it, as well as committing atrocities, like any other empire. All should be included, for a balanced, modern perspective and the fact that these details are suppressed, is what has led to the victimisation culture prevailing in black communities, in the US(which is deliberate and counter-productive to African-Americans succeeding) and also has led to the prevailing distortion, of the goals of the original feminist movement, which have lied about Britain pioneering a dominant male patriarchy, as meaning delusional modern women seek to gain what a man wants, instead of what women traditionally wanted, back in the day and the state has changed The legal parameters to Support them, at the eexpense of men, e.g. divorce law
At least the Brits hegenomy was built mainly on self endeavour and innovation, e.g. with being the pioneers of free society, with separation of the monarchy from Parliament and the pioneers of human rights in ratified legislation and free law courts, all of which the US system, the entire Anglosphere and every modern constitutional system, is based on.Whereas The Americans became a superpower, by staying out of 2 world wars and fighting proxy wars, both times to make European powers, indebted to them, by originally "only" selling munitions and raw materials, then manipulating conditions for the dollar being a reserve currency and financial parameters favouring the US market following Bretton Woods.
@Jefe Greedy You oblivious, ignorant, mental midget
@Jefe Greedy Well, I'm not defending British history here, I'm just providing objective, balance. I think you'll find that US only won because of French, Dutch and Spanish direct economic and military support. Anyway, it's quite clear who's being abusive here, from the fact that it looks like UA-cam is deleting your comments boi, unless you're deleting them yourself, through embarrassment
Most British nowadays just point at the Americans and their misdeeds to deflect rather than acknowledge their own misdeeds
Completely random fact:
German chocolate cake is named after a guy named Sam German, not the country.
thanks, that's actually pretty cool :)
Whst about German biscuits? Also known, fittingly given the video, as Empire biscuits.
No no, that’s not random (I’ve decided) that’s racist..You sir are CANCELLED!
Thank you my friend
idk even know what german choclate is and im from AT
This woman has some courage. This is the second video I've seen where Britain is getting rightfully ridiculed for their shady history.
I mean it's not like we're hiding it. Its easy enough to find all the info you would ever want on the empire.
Her parents probably come to UK because of the opression and problems in China, making this funnier
@@warpigsquad More like you never admit willingly! little Tommy!
@@web3wizard381 and the oppression is only getting worse in that wonderful country I deem “Diet North Korea”
@@web3wizard381 Whats funny is Britian is now a champion of human rights
She got one thing wrong. Chinese didn’t “steal” the opium. It was agreed that they would burn it and the compensation would be taken care of on the British side. They later changed their minds and decided the Chinese had to pay for the didn’t opium. They used that as an excuse to start war.
That’s a very important detail
I don't think is that important of a detail. It's not like the Chinese didn't have the right to burn the opium.
@@joxepojoxepin2752 Exactly, would you not expect the customs officials to destroy the drugs they seize at the borders? Funny the British drug smugllers would even ask to be compensated for something they illegally brought into the country.
As an Indian, I really like the title "Empires of dirt". A perfect definition for British Empire.
We gave you technology, rail roads industry, energy, all your sports, English, medical facilities and yet u only see negatives!
The British demanded reparations😂😭😭😂 Brits really are funny
such a British thing to do lol
Gangsters 😂
COVID-19 is just the beginning of Karmas work. The U.S and all of Europe will burn for their evil deeds against humanity. Now that’s funny
@@bangerzt.v7532 That'd not funny. That's evil thinking.
@@bangerzt.v7532 same people who profited of colonialism are the same ones pushing the destruction it’s almost like they want this to happen and were all just pawns
Thanks for informing us of this, I was one of the British people who didn't know our country played a role in this. I had assumed the opium was grown in China and the British simply dabbled in it themselves. Very shameful and sad. I appreciate your content more and more each video Zing
are the Opium Wars not taught in school in Britain？ I'm honestly curious
@@cpa314 nope
@@nathangulliver9145 I guess every country wants to gloss over the ugly parts of their past and only show the glorious parts..
@@cpa314 Wait to you find out how they teach The American Revolutionary war of Independence. Between both versions you'll find the truth, in all the horrible ugly details that both sides gloss over even about the other.
@@cpa314 It depends on the particular school history syllabus. I certainly remember learning about the Opium Wars when I was at school. But the breadth of British involvement in other countries between the 17th century up to the mid 20th century was so vast that things like this only get touched on briefly. You can't cover everything.
Cant wait for the 2020 edition of this show!
And that too they looted from India.
I'd love to see the data comparing Pablo Escobar to the British empire
kinda stuid to compare the largest empire in hostory to a colombian guy
@@henrik6977 lol @ you misspelling stupid 😅
@@henrik6977 Kinda stupid to think of Pablo Escobar as a 'guy' - Pablo Escobar is effectively being used as the name for the whole operation from there which I realised not too long ago, especially after seeing the submarine videos that it's very engrained across most likely millions for years its happened and yet 1 sub can easily contain millions worth.
@@cdav2199 Escobar spent what alittle under 20 years making his drug empire britan had centuries- its stupid to compare a state to a criminal gang
Mr Todd, I rather see the data comparing the CCP to the British empire. Meth and Fentanyl dumping for over a decade
Imagine having to send china drugs to get some leaves
Now china sends both drugs AND leaves. who won? who's next?
@@NuclearTopSpot U DECIDE! epic drug battles of history!
Best comment thread ever to best describe a Vice Mini Doc🤣
Britannia you didn’t explain you just called him an idiot. I guess that equals a victory in your head?
Akumamatata999 m.ua-cam.com/video/4VmBQfyxHXA/v-deo.html
i learnt something about history today. thanks vice!
No, you learned about what Vice want you to believe about history.
@@tonyves point out what they got wrong.
Britain killed 4 million Indians in Bengal in 1943 by imposing a famine
Japan had a lot to do with it as well not just British
@@sorrysorry1877British are responsible for it
So many movies about Pablo Escobar but none of the British Empire, interesting....
if u white u always right
@@zhujustin1997 Or maybe more people would want to watch a movie about a drug dealer from the 80's who once owned a zoo in his backyard. Than a movie about global trade in the 1800's?
@@sweeepzone5155 movie bout a global trade with actually be badass from the war scenes
@@sweeepzone5155 Actually most people would be more interested in the global trade you mentioned
@@helderpostiga4738 We live in world where there are about to be 9 Fast & Furious movies... Do you really think enough people would go the cinema and buy a ticket for a movie about the British Empire in the 1800's and it's global trade.
I'm not saying its not interesting. My point is just a reply to the original comment that it's not some conspiracy that American Hollywood executives are afraid to talk about the British Empire. Its more the fact that audiences want to be entertained and Pablo Escobar is 'cooler' and has more connection to people.
and that is only a small part of the skullduggery that the empire was involved in on every continent....its definitely not something that is taught in UK schools...but it should be
@Roblox Troll So if the colonies were "insignificant" and were "technologically" backward, or backward in any other way, why leave your lovely technologically advanced, "superior" England in ships for months to these places? Just to home delivery wheels??? Good that you believe that, it's great to create your wealth by ripping off people all over and then preach grand ideas such as democracy, human rights, "war on drugs". When the existence of the same people and their generations to come is a direct result of exploitation.
Unfortunately, might be too big and complicated thing to understand for "technologically superior" being such as yourself!
@Roblox Troll See told ya.. too complicated for your technologically advanced mind!
The colonizers went and disrupted other people's way of live! Example, here British for their unending greed, killed and destroyed lives for their profit! And the same everywhere, all modern day issues, conflicts and human suffering can be traced back to colonization. My point is if colonies had nothing why go there in the first place??
It's ok, I am for one don't hold grudges. Things kinda work out in their weird twisted ways. I am sure all the injustices done will come back to the same colonizers. Like the broke ass countries in Europe and your very own UK facing their drug epidemic. The Chinese own most of London, the Indians also started buying off so-called prestige British brands. So guess what's goes around, comes around. With that thought wishing you a great weekend ahead! Live long and watch the demise!
@TheCrazyKid1381 they were heavily inproved by them though. By the late 1700s Europe was a good century ahead of most of asia and 3 millenias ahead of the Americas. And please don't say something about running water, the romans had running water before the age of colonization ecen started
@TheCrazyKid1381 cant have been that superior if they let themselves get dominated and enslaved and robbed of their resources.
TheCrazyKid1381 superior races? Damn bro you’re sounding like a colonialist too now 😂😂
Thank you Vice for these kind of videos .
Honestly the British have done so much and no one holds them accountable. They’re just trying to erase it from history by not teaching it to their own people. I really respect Harry and Megan for calling out that horrible mentality.
You respect Harry and Megan? Shame on you. Also, we are NOT trying to erase it from history, we are taught about our faults. Stop talking about us like we are the same people from 2 centuries ago.
@@AtlanticBoii okay then answer this. What’s the Kohinoor still doing on your crown? You guys have really changed right? 😏
I never meant to offend the British public. I only wanted to criticise the government and the royal family but since you really want to defend the crappiness please do answer the question.
@@aishwaryaraju921 You call our people crap? Also, the fact of who truly owns it is disputed so oh well, might as well be ours!
@@AtlanticBoii since you were defending the British I assumed you understood English, but clearly I was wrong. I NEVER SAID THE BRITISH PEOPLE ARE CRAP. The royal family is. Get that into your thick skull.
It’s disputed? That’s your reason why it should stay with the British 😏 cmon man. Lie better. Don’t come up with BS cause you can’t defend yourself. (BBC has written that it should be returned)
Britain still has some precious artefacts of African tribes even though their government has asked them to return them many times.
Even if we set aside the trillions of dollars looted from India, Britain hasn’t even paid the world war 2 debt. And that’s taken from an article by BBC.
Read up sir/ma’am before you make a fool of yourself online.
@@aishwaryaraju921 You referred to us by 'you guys' That includes the British people. Also, I do not condone what happened in Africa during the colonial era and I don't care about most of what BBC puts out anymore because of the terrible things they've done. The BBC is not our gospel. Also Britain HAS paid its World War 2 debt, get your facts straight wee lad. (You used 'and' at the start of a sentence. Lern inglesh.)
As we say in Britain, "it was just banter"
It's only a giggle mate. Chill... Pardon the pun.
yeh m8. Go sleep it off
😂😂😂
Twoyearsbeforethe80s m.ua-cam.com/video/4VmBQfyxHXA/v-deo.html
Just a minor tussel
“Mainly black and brown” woah 😳crazy way to start a video
She needs to relax
It’s true. All races roughly do the same amount of drugs but black and brown people are statistically incarcerated for it more.
@@binaryvoid0101 Im calling bad luck.
@@jaskapenttila7644
prove it
0-100 real quick
this woman is amazing. it doesnt seem like shes reading from cue cards- she must know this information verbatim. spectacular.
An award winning documentary that should be decorated. Please record in greater detail of individual accounts and family histories and political events. Also trace the trade corridors and their origins and history.
Bit of an overstatement that hardly anybody in the UK even knows about the opium wars. Personally I think a lot of people have heard about it and know a little about it but don't know the scale of the truth.
Keep the awesome history content coming
You should put subtitles in other languages. Is such important information to learn!!1
What people don't know is that Europe is doing the same thing today. Just with BWC instead of Opium.
Opium is just replaced by BWC.
i learned about this in my global history class back in highschool.
me too and in university .. VICE wants to think it's a secret
Pat W : I skipped that lesson
Yea they teach us about the opium wars in school too
Tin Garaus lol where did u read that from. The Chinese emperor criminalised the sale of opium and banned imports of opium in 1799. How do u expect others to be “ precise and honest” when ur neither precise nor honest? Stop copy pasting the same nonsense. It only shows ur lack of critical thinking skills.
Feels like this is becoming a Poly Sci class at university, pass me a beer plz
Relevant fact:
Churchill used opium pills.
on a boat trip when he went to South Africa in 1899.
I mean, morphine and oppiods are still used in medicine and abused recreationally and it has been this way since the 19th century 🤷
Alessio Marrucci for reals.. it’s a huge problem.
What's a churchill ?
Churchill was an amphetamine and barbiturate user. He might've used opioids from time to time, but along with alcohol those were his drugs of choice.
No wonder Churchill looked like crap in all his pictures
I knew there was something personal behind the episodes on British Empire haha. Thanks for the history..
Thank you so much!!!!! Perry D. Gold institute shows me this...
Thank you. I’ve actually always wondered about the Opium Wars. Glad I got this info. Thank’s Vice
Get your info from a good source. NOT HERE. I don’t care about what you learn just don’t learn it from here.
Actually they tried to buy stuff from China by trading silver. But they soon realized they didn't have enough silver.
A wise sage once said: "Did I tell y'all to sell drugs? No. Hov did that. So hopefully none of y'all have to go through that."
"Britain stopped *EXPORTING* 0pium to China."
You should do a series on the Ottoman Empire and human traffic/slaves I think that would be good!
I’d love to hear what you know about them just out of curiosity as to why you want to see such a video... 🧐
abs6kader Just like seeing how different areas of the world navigated it over the years.
It would be great to see a documentary about the subject ..that being said what dose the British empire forcing opium on the chines have to do with the ottom slave trade ?
Hazan Aimon oh nothing she just started the video saying how the purpose of the series is to explore how different groups interacted with the world. Just giving ideas for the series as a whole not this specific video
@@GardeningInCanada You know the interesting thing is from the dawn of of human civilization ..we have practiced slavery ..the only people who practiced chattel slavery based on race were Europeans..you know the transatlantic slave trade ...Their justification was they felt superior to other races ...just saying
This is so important to make people aware of because I do wonder how many British people know about this....
why is it important to make people aware of this? I think there are historical events that are far more important than this to learn about.
I know about this and i think it just makes Britain look more powerful
@@warpigsquad I think it's pretty important to know Britain got another country addicted to drugs just to exploit its market and exports
Anyone that has been to school knows this, I'm not brit nor Chinese and know about it since i was 14.
@@11mazatl But Britain did not 'get another country addicted to drugs' at all. The British merely sold opium to Chinese merchants in Canton, who then were the ones who distributed and pushed the drug within China. The only reason the British did this was the balance out the unequal trade policies imposed by the Qing empire which demanded that Chinese merchants buy no goods at all from the western powers, only sell to them. Turns out that opium was the one thing these Chinese traders would defy their emperor to get their hands on, and they became massively wealthy from it, addicting their 'countrymen' to something that had been used in China for centuries already.
Stop blaming the British for things you don't really understand.
The word Hipster comes from the Chinese sitting on their hips smoking opium by the way! I thought that was cool when I first learned about it. It’s from The book Dreamland by Sam Quinos or Dreamland by Beth Macy, two great books about the opiate crisis today. Considered the definitive books on the topic so I don’t think they were lying.
To passado com esses videooooos meu Deeeeeus
Literally every notification for a new VICE video I get has to do with drugs.
any of those videos featuring the CCP ?
Someone should absolutely make a movie about a British guy in the 1800’s who snuggles opium into China. That would be awesome.
it's illegal to make a movie like this,if the other way around will be legal,as we know they are human rights warriors
There is Chinese movie of the Opium Wars I watched as kid. It was surprisingly even handed and was taught so that every Chinese umderstood the humiliation they suffered which was also a consequence of their China's own failings.
Where can I find the whole docu of empire of dirt?
From this story, we know that the source of wealth for some countries in Europe comes from the blood, tears and lives of people in various parts of the world, such as Asia and Africa. Very dark history. thank you VICE for revealing this history.
Nope , it comes from industrial innovation
@@jdlc903 If this is just an industrial innovation then it shouldn't be a problem for the world. However, the desire to rob and control everything is the main source of problems. this is real colonialism. If this were just a matter of industrial innovation then the Aborigines would not have lost a continent, and there are many other examples.
is it just me or does this reporter seem passive agressive
the truth is always a bit passive aggressive no? especially when ur on the defensive
@@JasonC683 I mean no. She just hates Britain for some reason...
I mean yeah obviously, shes sad chinas weakest point was around englands strongest point
"the CCP is strong in this one..."
I mean its personal. Her great grandfather died caused of opium overdose
"Moral and political opposition to the drug trade had grown." Followed by: "It simply was not profitable anymore." Why? There's no logical link between these 2 statements, and also no numbers to back any of it up. Could it not really have been moral and political opposition?
Lol with these facts from 1850?
I thought she connected it by saying china frustrated that outlawing it wasn't working, tried another tactic...producing it themselves, hence, how China became an opium growing country, and made importing it unprofitable. Something we in the USA should be thinking about around now, not with opium, but with all the stuff we import because we're not producing or growing it here.
Who come Indians and British weren’t hooked on opium only the Chinese?
Woah this is the best information I can find.
Vice is like “I’ve read Terence McKenna once”
“Opium is like modern day heroin”. Heroin is opium. Also, when did opiates change to opiods?
Heroin is a processed version of pure opium, the stuff that's harvested from the poppy plant directly. Opioids are synthetically made opiates, they bind to the exact same receptors and have the same effects, they just aren't made with any actual pure opium in them
@@ArizonaAkinTv thanks
ArizonaAkinTv so does this mean opiates have worse effects on the human brain? Like worse withdrawals, quicker addiction, etc.?
@@sorudesarutta no. and most of the addiction treatment drugs are also as addictive.
They are made from the latex that is exuded out of the poppy seed pods, and include certain ingredients like morphine and codeine.
Loving this series 🥰
I can't believe I have never seen this. This is excellent reporting. Will show my students TOMORROW. Thank you.
So let’s talk about a time when China was the biggest drug dealer that was ever seen and by time I mean now with fentanyl.
I think you're missing the key difference. British Government/Royalty were the DEALERS with Opium. Fentanyl from China is dealt by criminals illegally NOT openly profited and pushed by Chinese Government. China has strict drug laws, you don't want to be caught and put in a Chinese jail. BIG difference.
What an informative video. Thank you.
You are doing a great job keep it up
Can't wait to see your next piece. ON how the China treats its own citizens, too including but not be limited to the Uyghur's, Tibetan's, Kazakh's...
Like building wonderful infrastructures in these remote areas and developing local economies.
this is such a fantastic series and Zing is an amazing host!
Narrating history I get it but what is the relevance of this propaganda video to the today's world other than helping Chinese communist regime over the country that is their home today? She sounds like a traitor to the country she is sucking as of today. Creating hatred and denigrating a country you live in is plain dishonest and treasonous.
She needs to get her facts a little more honest
@@geoffreygroome3344 very true. This whole video was very biased and made up things to make it look like the British were doing even worse things that they actually were.
@@geoffreygroome3344they are..
she look like the lady on extreme cheapskates who had the pants held together with a clip
yeah all Asians look identical.
@Ts K you need a better eye for satire.
That’s racist!
@@chamade166 Racist, meaning perfering one race over another, right? How is that me saying one race is superior than another? All Asians have the identical hair color and identical eye color and facial structure.
I like how she casually travels around and narrate the shady dealing of the British Empire like she does not care if someone might over heard it.
Well the Fact She labels this as Empire of Dirt seems like she's very Biased against Britain Anyway, Get tired of Countries like India failing itself and then all they ever seem to do is turn to blaming it on Britain because its easier then sorting they own Mistakes
@@silentperspective7984 Britain's the root cause,no doubting it and we have to acknowledge that.and I wouldn't say India is failing because presuming it would be illogical and non-factual though it has its own religio-political and poverty issues.
It wasn't the brithish government, it was the old banking familys aka rothschilds aka east India trading Co. That still run the show to this day from city of london.
Such a great video! Thank you so much for telling the truth. And they dare to call their country great?!?! 🙇🏿♂️
Britannia rules the waves
What? This video just makes Britain look greater dumbass.
@@harry33789 shut up
@@onochienwagbogu8950 snowflake
Stop living here then benefiting of us. Same elite who profited of colonialism are the ones inviting you here and stirring up racial tensions through videos like this
i can feel the resentment she has for something that happened 190 years ago
@@SohoJoe202 exactly. They say everything but admit to the disgusting past of their ancestors. It's a reason why Europe has the richest countries and it wasnt because they were smarter than everyone else. It was simply because they invented firearms. If Europe didnt have firearms, those countries would probably be dirt fucking poor and the rest of the world would be rich because guess what continent doesnt have that many natural resources ?
She doesn't have to hide from it, we will keep that resentment until it is fully sorted out.
@@lishan7219 so you wanne build a time machine and go back and tell those people or you got some other demented ideas?
@@gamertron0993 europe didnt invent the fire arm, they just made it better. also europe has many natural recourses, europeans didnt even go to asia until the middle ages so what your saying makes no sense. you are just being angry.
@@gamertron0993 also its not like european countries where allies so whatever brittain did has very little to do with any of the other countries. thats like saying that china is bad because japan did something 500 years ago. you do realize how crazy that sounds right.
Today we hear the British government calling for freedom and democracy for HK. But they never held an election once for their subject during their 100 year rule. When the British and American Government speak it's best not pay it any attention.
Britishers conveniently forget about that part.
Thanks for the info🙏
Hong Kong Island itself was ceded in perpetuity after the first opium war, but British territory later expanded under the 99 year lease in 1898 to include the entirety of what we now call Hong Kong. This video is otherwise really good aside from this oversight with regard to the timescale of British conquest of Hong Kong, given that this actually later caused a dispute during handover negotiations over whether or not the new territories and kowloon (leased in 1898) could be handed back while the UK kept HK Island itself.
I'm loving this series. Keep up the great work!
Very enlightening
@vice You should do a documentary in how Ancient Egypt and Babylonia taught the world economic-scale slavery!!!
The history syllabus Britain doesn't teaches in it's schools
Yeah I learned this in high school
But they did though.... did you never learn about the silk trade?
@Harry Paul Goes to school in western country learns about history of west, wonders why not taught about history of Phillipines.....
@Gary Davies What are you even talking about?
VICE thinks this is breaking news ffs
HK Protesters need to watch this video before waving the colonial flag.
So you think the CCP is better for citizens of Hong Kong?
@@noahl6581 Yes, I do believe HK under China's rule is better for its citizen than under British rule. HK citizen gets privilege under China's rule, while treated as second class citizen under British.
@@SmileZeroYeah, you are right by that. What I meant to communicate was that rule of the CCP is much worse than rule of the British government, of today.
@@SmileZero This video is nonsense, the British forced their trade ideology on the Chinese they didn't force a pipe in their mouth light it and then steal money out of their pockets. The Chinese had a demand for opium thats why the merchants were shipping it to the country because Chinese had a taste for opium.
All of this could have been avoided if the Chinese govt hadn't been so arrogant it thought it could destroy foreigners goods without compensation.
@@AvNotasian Opium trade was declared illegal at the time, but the British force the trade upon them with their war machine. Imagine if your country were forced to open trade for Heroin, and let's all the kids have a taste of it and all kind of marketing allowed. That's what happened to China with Opium. What China did was destroying illegal smuggled drugs, not just any foreigner goods.
I am glad that at 5:08 she said "what we did in China" and not "what they did in China". She asserts herself as a part of the UK people.
Yes, a lot of Brits like myself have to deal with this conflict between our identity and the British empire.
The opening music is so good. Does anyone knows the name?
Mozart...
I like this kind of video and how you explain it, it really dense while easy to understand....
Excellent coverage of the truth. Thank you Zing Tsjeng...keep presenting your fantastic story-telling.
Heroin/opium withdrawl is horrendous but it wont kill you.