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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
On the basis of official documents of the colonial administration of Hong Kong, the article describes the policy of the British colonialists in Hong Kong using opium as a legal source of income in the first half of the 20th century. Despite decisions of several international conferences on control over drug trafficking, beginning from the Shanghai Opium Commission whose centenary was marked in 2009, Britain widely used opium for financial support of its rule in China, and stopped it only in 1945 under U.S. pressure.
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