China could have reacted to the Company's…
September 1858 CE
China could have reacted to the Company's aggressive exports of Bengal opium by encouraging local opium harvests rather than prohibiting opium consumption and cultivation from 1729 to 1858.
Such an action would have destroyed both market and profits for the Indian imports.
Instead, China's addicts and their near insatiable demand for the illicit drug create high profits and inspire ferocious competition among merchant captains competing for a share of this lucrative market—English out of Calcutta, ...
