The War on Opium | Addicted to Pleasure | BBC Studios
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2015
- Brian Cox learns the origins and history of the war on opium. Taken from Addicted To Pleasure.
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Instead of being called "addicted to pleasure" shouldn't the title be "Drug pushers from across the sea."
Gary Garrett no. Why would it be?
That's what so many people fail to understand about the so called opium war. The demand for opium in China already existed centuries before the British started selling to them, and the Chinese themselves sold opium in their own country - they regarded the British trade as unfair competition. Also, the huge majority of opium smokers in China were not hopeless addicts as people seem to portray. Most people used opium socially, or medically, against fever, cough, malaria, tuberculose, etc. Frank Dikottër has a great book explaining that, of which this article is a summary of: www.opendemocracy.net/en/unravelling-myth-of-china-s-opium-plague/
I strongly agree with you sir...
@@dboy2462 so it does making it look like righthteous to forcibly sell drugs
@@fierrymarkpanggo8162 Not forcibly.
Brian Cox not only is an incredible actor but excellent narrator as well.
Ohh, aye!
Documentaries like this is the reason why I like BBC.
UK currently grows then exports the largest amount of legally grown weed in Europe, yet it is illegal in the UK.
Wow, this video is great! Thanks BBC for helping me understand more about Opium.
Neceron The dragon
Opium is the gate way drug
When the british sold opium in china they were not selling a drug they believed to be harmful dangerous or even necessarily addictive, instead they were selling a compound they used themselves.
The priest animation....lol
it was called Anglo Chinese Wars instead of Opium Wars in English textbooks.
Obsfucate= to confuse
this is what Brits teach in their school? It was okay for them to illegally import banned drugs to another country as long as the Chinese had “desire” for them?
We are taught about what happened. There is a strong 'not everything we did historically was cool' vibe in our teaching of History.
@@charleshowie2074 I respect that mate
It's a remarkable story
Where can I buy this series? So good.
thanks
If the British are not ashamed of this, they will not be ashamed of anything.
I believe the British apply an effort to hide the truth
When the british sold opium in china they were not selling a drug they believed to be harmful dangerous or even necessarily addictive, instead they were selling a compound they used themselves.
I’m American, but I am an Anglo-Saxon of British stock, both sides of my family. Our people have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. Nothing. And if you hate us that badly, then, practice what you preach and STOP appropriating my peoples’ language.
Most of the Ch_nese op___ users were not add_cts.
Can anyone tell me what kind of music is in 1:40? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
¿is there the full program?
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Ahhhhh Brian Cox. I’d recognize that voice anywhere.
Can anyone help me out with a way to watch/purchase this full documentary?
So the Red statue with the Cannon at it's centre is the guy on the top meant to look like Lenin?
they all got a lil buzz when burning
the old lady that traded a flower for a sail boat 1 for 1
The East India Company (EIC) was an English and later British joint-stock company founded in 1600.[2] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia), and later with Qing China. The company ended up seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent, colonised parts of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong after the First Opium War, and maintained trading posts and colonies in the Persian Gulf Residencies.[3] The company is also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC), East India Trading Company (EITC), the English East India Company or the British East India Company, and informally known as John Company,[4] Company Bahadur,[5] or simply The Company, mainly involved in Drug trafficking (Opium).
I think we all know that lol
ROYAL FAMILY OMG
Western are good at open trade with their strategies method.
The first war on drug?
👌
Drugs made a man weak. He and his family are scrutinized by the community as future addicts. No one wants to marry sons and daughters of addicts, believing that their income would only further their parents addiction.
So when they burned the opium using lime did the just make morphine?
Yeah but didn't realize lol
I got opium we goin up*+
I been on opium for the last ten days
Materialism and all that it can be.
No developed countries did not get their hands dirty on their ways of development.
Said no one ever
*Imagine watching the BBC'S version of this and still wondering why China's armung up😂😂* that's why i watch both tbh
Dude looks like patches o’houlihan
Edit, I meant captain o’Hagan LOL
EDIT2: it IS captain o hagan!
you know it is him right?
Of Course Details of Opium war aren’t well described in British school books BUT
the East remembers !
And the British and west know that China remembers, thats why they’ve been worried and scared as hell since the rise of China to global power again.
The British love hiding the truth
I would gladly trade tea for opium any day of the week. Imagine how nice it would be to have opium dens now. Sad the great lengths others go to control what one does with their own body.
I wholeheartedly agree
Lol
Watching this high off codeine
Opium grows opium in India and Southeast Asia, dumping China to make money. The Anglo Saxon.Behind the Opium War was a trade deficit. Tea, silk and porcelain had a surplus with Britain, while Britain's industrialized cloth had no market in China.
Mankind's first trade war
William jardine was one of the famous opium sellers where is he a hero in?
Hero in
Get it?
Isn't everyone addicted to pleasure?
Yes thats why moderation of it is extremely vital to overall happiness. I am one of the people who recognize my sickness but find it impossible to change. So if you arent in the game stay out at all costs...
Im on opium rn yes
I certainly am
I'm addicted the pain and sadness
@@ThreeNinjaDucks you’re gonna looooooooove 2020 then
Hello
here
No mention of David Sassoon , I wonder why....?
The Triangular trade -
Lancashire & Manchester(East India Company), To gain & balance trade(fulfilling European's tea demand at zero cost) forced Bengal peasants(people massacred who spoke against Britishers) to cultivate opium, illegally traded in canton from Calcutta port, made Chinese people addicted as Chinese emperor was aware addictive properties so it was banned in China.
In 1839 the Chinese Emperor sent Lin Ze-xu(Special Commissioner
) to Canton to stop the opium trade. When he made arrests(1600 men) & impounded 11k pound opium, Britishers declared war(1837-42) defeated & humiliated Chinese by making them accept to legalize trade.
Interestingly - Smoking opium was strictly banned in Britain but they made Chinese addicted.
interesting indeed
20 millions Chinese died because of this dirty tactics
The west still want to colonze China, but instead opium they use modern tools like news and social media
A jesuit priest i suppose..
Early modern narcos
Please also note that China is as also called India until its formation of the Maoist Communist party that named it China after the INA Army’s success in defeating the WeJi. ⚡️🤴🏽🕉🔺➕
What about opium and tacos...
Makes me want to smoke some opium
事实上我一直在想怎么从云南边境运输鸦片到西方，对西方人贩卖鸦片类成瘾药物对我没有任何心理上的不适。我的居住地有成堆的黄金不能让她变现是种罪恶，更是对金钱的侮辱，有兴趣合作吗？我们将让白色的黄金在盎格鲁的领地肆意飞翔。这个该死天才想法太棒了联系我我的兄弟让我们伟大
sup
stuffed chickens with opium and feed it to them is how they did it smh
Twisted trade practices....
legalize it. solve the problem.
Its always the priests be it America or Asia jesus loves you
1833..hhmmm
A bit tasteless using a silly animation instead of a dramatisation.
Wow, modern day Americans (and other countries) today are spoiled with production value and special FX flooding their brain in a sea of stimulating but useless information. I think we're forgetting that even though we have 7 billion people on this planet, someone still has to do the work to dramatize it, and to you it wouldn't be worth it. It works as an outline of the important details to preserve in memory quickly with a level of understanding so that you can hypothetically recreate the content you watch to someone else with words and a pen.
Patrick Cу hey just because one person has an opinion doesn't mean he or she represents all Americans ..... wow
Shenanigans
Sala sab 2 no. Ki cheeze bihar se ati ha. 2:56
First drug cartels in the world
that sounds like Sean Connery.
i love the tools!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you msut seize trrinkets or prizes for every victory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if you possess illegal contranbad police will seize the illegal contranband anythng that containst the illeglal contrabnad and arrest you........
Mmm...opium.
And now we addicted to phones
haha the brits got karma back
It’s called incompetence
opium with bibles.
Get high on opium and see God, that’s a sales pitch
Now the Chinese are getting even with fentenal
wjntoronto they’re not going to invade you to force your druggies to continue taking their drugs though, in fact they convicted the illegal fentenal traffickers. Britain went to war for their drug dealers, this is a huge false equivalence.
So true
They call her "Iron lady", in Asia we called her "Pirate Queen"
Chinese people will never forget...never
I am an Irish American and I will not forget what the British did to the Irish
If India had done the same thing we could have saved ourselves for 200 year and the looter may not have looted our country ...
What a waste. Imiagne how nice it would be to have a few crates of opium like that?
British should be ashamed of their empire
The British raped Ireland
Why is there a war on my favorate plant
Crack 200yrs ago
The British are so greedy
"addiction to pleasure"?? kinda insensitive title for a british video...
Michaela Seah how so?
Just Say No
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