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I think the relevance of understanding this history in relation to the current predicaments of today cannot be understated.
So true for so much of past/current predicaments, at home and abroad. One of my professors once pointed out that most Americans didn't understand that much of the Soviet distrust of the West was rooted in the allied intervention during the Russian civil war. I suspect many Americans don't understand the early relationship between the West and China; as you pointed out, the Opium Wars being a good example of that.
As if R/T didn't have enough Sturm und Drang! Epilepsy often seems to be the go to reaction over there.
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