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this is revenge for stealing their silkmoths isnt it?

and their proprietary tea strains

and forcing them to allow opium to be sold in their country

and forcing them to give up major port cities and open up trade against their wishes

Honestly whenever China gets around to getting its served-extremely-cold revenge for all the savagery committed against it in the 19th and 20th centuries, some chips are going to be the least of everyone's problems.

Also, porcelain, paper and gunpowder. And maybe (don't remember exactly), magnetic compass.

I think that was the British? We are just getting over hating them ourselves.

A quick read of some British press and you'll realize that the British are going through their own self-hate moment, so everyone is aligned.

This is what living in the ashes of an empire does to you.

Will come for the USA in time.

Already ahead of you there sport. November 2016.

the american century of humiliation begins

The opium will be full of sugar and preservatives though.

Or fentanyl!

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