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Did you know? The Jewish family Sassoon was known as the ‘Rothschilds of the East”. They dominated opium trade in China after UK defeated Qing Dynasty & forced China to legalise the drug. The Opium Wars made the Sassoons very rich & kickstarted China’s century of humiliation.

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Geopolitical analysis from a Chinese viewpoint.
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