The Opium War

China believe that they were a independent country so they didn't want to deal with other countries. Britain had something that Chinese people wouldn't resist that is call "opium," Chinese people used to use it as drugs. Britain wanted to deal with China because they wanted China's tea. After a few time Chinese people started to become addicted to opium. China's government started to get angry because opium was destroying their people and the whole country. In order to stop this they didn't want to deal with
Britain anymore, but Britain didn't want to stop dealing with China, that's why started "the opium war." China refuse to deal with Britain and China try to block Britain's ships wanted to get in and force China to keep importing. Because of their technology and their better ships and weapons Britain people defeat Chinese people to easily.