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The Opium War

At the beginning of the 18th century, China has emerged as the global centre for preferred commodities.

At that time, Britain and other European imperialists have amassed huge tons of Gold from African making these Europeans countries very rich and the citizens have developed strong taste for Chinese luxury goods.

By the end of the 18th Century, China had taken nearly a half of all the gold reserves the European countries have stored and more gold were moving out of Europe to China each day due to strong taste for Chinese goods by the European citizens.

The European governments realised that without having a strategy to curb the trend, China will completely collapse Europe. The Europeans decided to plant Opium in large quantities in their colonies and then introduce that in the Chinese society.

European merchants began to send opium to the Chinese Market in 1812 and in no time, the Chinese had become addicted to the European opium.

This singular act saw the Chinese giving back the gold they have collected for a period of 100 years and over from Europe to demand for the Opium in large quantities. Not only were the Europeans taken back their gold, many of the Chinese citizens began to be destroyed through the opium addiction, their production and the economy began to fall rapidly than anyone could have predicted.

When the Chinese government realised the situation, it placed a ban on both the trade and the use of opium in the country.

Unfortunately, this response action had come too late because the people had already become addicted to the substance. Britain saw a weakened society and in 1839 it waged war on the Chinese government, sadly, the citizens of China went to support the British to defeat and destroy China because they couldn't live without opium so they fought their own government in order that the British can supply them with opium.

-The people who exploit us to sustain their luxury living will always have a strategy to keep us in an exploitative state, their strategy may even include destroying us completely, we must think deep and ahead in order to protect our interests.

Without multiples of strategies and counter strategies, we may not end well.

The African Continental Unity Party (ACUP) must be on guard to strategize beyond ourselves and our generations. We must succeed in determination to promoting and defending our interests.

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On This Day in History > April 11, 1803:

French Foreign Minister Talleyrand offers to sell Louisiana Territory to U.S.

"In one of the great surprises in diplomatic history, French Foreign Minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand makes an offer to sell all of Louisiana Territory to the United States.

Talleyrand was no fool. As the foreign minister to French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, he was one of the most powerful men in the world. Three years earlier, Talleyrand had convinced Napoleon that he could create a new French Empire in North America. The French had long had a tenuous claim to the vast area west of the Mississippi River known as Louisiana Territory, which had already been occupied by Native Americans for centuries. In 1800, Napoleon secretly signed a treaty with Spain that officially gave France full control of the territory. Then he began to prepare France’s mighty army to occupy New Orleans and bolster French dominion.

When President Thomas Jefferson learned of Napoleon’s plans in 1802, he was understandably alarmed. Jefferson had long hoped the U.S. would expand westward beyond the Mississippi, but the young American republic was in no position militarily to challenge France for the territory. Jefferson hoped that his minister in France, Robert Livingston, might at least be able to negotiate an agreement whereby Napoleon would give the U.S. control of New Orleans, the gateway to the Mississippi River.

At first, the situation looked bleak because Livingston’s initial attempts at reaching a diplomatic agreement failed. In early 1803, Jefferson sent his young Virginia friend James Monroe to Paris to assist Livingston. Fortunately for the U.S., by that time Napoleon’s situation in Europe had changed for the worse. War between France and Great Britain was imminent and Napoleon could no longer spare the military resources needed to secure control of Louisiana Territory. Realizing that the powerful British navy would probably take the territory by force, Napoleon reasoned it would be better to sell Louisiana to the Americans than have it fall into the hands of his enemy.

After months of having fruitlessly negotiated over the fate of New Orleans, Livingston again met with Talleyrand on this day in 1803. To Livingston’s immense surprise, this time the cagey French minister coolly asked, “What will you give for the whole?” He meant not the whole of New Orleans, but the whole of Louisiana Territory. Quickly recognizing that this was an offer of potentially immense significance for the U.S., Livingston and Monroe began to discuss France’s proposed cost for the territory. Several weeks later, on April 30, 1803, the American emissaries signed a treaty with France for a purchase of the vast territory for $11,250,000.

A little more than two weeks later, Great Britain declared war on France. With the sale of the Louisiana Territory, Napoleon abandoned his dreams of a North American empire, but he also achieved a goal that he thought more important. “The sale [of Louisiana] assures forever the power of the United States,” Napoleon later wrote, “and I have given England a rival who, sooner or later, will humble her pride.”

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