Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190728:14:27:00
Authoritarian regime in the world and still retain any degree of autonomy in the first place. the root of this contradiction lies further back than you might think. a war between the british and the chinese that began in 1839. you see, in the years leading up to it, chinese cities were effectively closed to international trade except for the city of canton. what is now guangzhou where british merchants flocked to buy tea. as the historian steven platt explained to npr, they exchanged for the only commodity the chinese waned from britain, which flooded china even though illegal. eventually the ...
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