Roland I read your Message: 8 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 18:35:13 -0400 of Goa net on the Subject: [Goanet] The Optics Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Your 10 points almost competed with our resident poet who had some rude words about PUTIN and Russian Women. While your piece was amusing my conclusion was that <<<No Wonder Goan or for that Matter Indian Women have not been sent to the Moon"<<< However your piece was blaming the American for the Wrong Reasons The real culprits were the BRITISH. ....the British Merchant Company. The British traders wanted as much Chinese Crockery, Tea, Silk etc. The Chinese did not want anything brought by the British except Silver/ wanted goods such as tea, silks and porcelain was extremely lucrative for British merchants. The problem was that the Chinese would not buy British products in return. They would only sell their goods in exchange for silver, and as a result large amounts of silver were leaving Britain. In order to stop this, the East India Company and other British merchants began to smuggle OPIUM into China illegally, This was then used to buy tea and other goods. By 1839, opium sales to China paid for the entire tea trade. *A few years later there were nearly 10 million Chinese addicts *Message: 8 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 18:35:13 -0400 From: Roland Francis <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [Goanet] The Optics Message-ID: <[email protected]> No matter what the future strategy, or the compulsions - both foreign policy and military, or the justifications or the spin, this is what everybody views in Afghanistan. 1. The world?s most modern and powerful fighting force has been humiliated by a primitive pyjama-wearing ragtag bunch of ignorants. 2. America is not a nation to be relied on. This is not a new discovery. 3. They rallied allies to fight with them but ignored their pleas to delay departure to enable safe evacuation. No man is left behind is their empty slogan. 4. They have idiotic presidents succeeded by even more idiotic presidents. 5. They raise money recklessly borrowed and even more recklessly spent. If there is a global financial crash, you know who caused it. 6. They fight wars without a plan i.e. why they are there and what to do after they win or lose (mostly lose). 7. They have an awful democratic system that is like a block of cheese so full of holes, even the mice won?t touch it and here?s the catch - they want to flog it everywhere. 8. If their government system is a cheese their capitalist system is a powdery Sohan Halwa. They are chock full of billionaires but so many people in so many places that have no proper food and shelter. 9. They call themselves the greatest but that may be true only if greatness comes from being laughed at. 10. With the end of this war their drugees and mental numbers will increase leaps and bounds. Roland. Toronto. *End of Goanet Digest, Vol 16, Issue 446* ****************************************cf* *Opium and Tea* The roots of the Opium War (or First China War) lay in a trade dispute between the British and the Chinese Qing Dynasty. By the start of the 19th century, the trade in Chinese goods such as tea, silks and porcelain was extremely lucrative for British merchants. The problem was that the Chinese would not buy British products in return. They would only sell their goods in exchange for silver, and as a result large amounts of silver were leaving Britain. In order to stop this, the East India Company and other British merchants began to smuggle Indian opium into China illegally, for which they demanded payment in silver. This was then used to buy tea and other goods. By 1839, opium sales to China paid for the entire tea trade. There were by now nearly 10 million Chinese. The Chinese efforts to stop the exchange nearly succeeded In May 1839 they *forced the British Chief Superintendent of Trade in China*, Charles Elliott, to hand over the stocks of opium at Canton for destruction. This outraged the British, and was the incident that sparked conflict.*The Chinese halted the trade and War broke out. Readers can get even more from the following cite * *https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/opium-war-1839-1842#:~:text=Chinese%20resistance&text=Chinese%20efforts%20to%20end%20the,the%20incident%20that%20sparked%20conflict <https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/opium-war-1839-1842#:~:text=Chinese%20resistance&text=Chinese%20efforts%20to%20end%20the,the%20incident%20that%20sparked%20conflict>.* Please note that this are British Sources, not Chinese or Tanzanian *Have a Good day keep away from Drugs, opium included * Grandolfo >From Makongo Juu ...drug free but Alcohol Abundant
