But parts of India had come under British control and soon Indian opium was going to China to pay for tea. When the Chinese wanted to ban opium imports, the British launched the Opium Wars. Now it is quite clear that it is East Asia and more particularly China which will denote Asia. He abandoned his core beliefs in socialist economics and transformed China by a singular application of the Capitalist model adapted to China. He signed the UK-China Treaty on Hong Kong playing a softly softly strategy, agreeing to One Country Two Systems.

Source: Indian Express July 04, 2020 22:41 UTC