Asking this for my 5-year-old niece. I, myself am 21 years old, don’t know how exactly they did it and am exceptionally bad at Humanities.
I don’t quite understand how the Britishers convinced/bewitched/overruled the rulers of a nation. From what I understand, they struck deals and what-not. Can you please explain a **bird’s eye view** of the entire situation so that I can explain it to my niece?
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TLDR: the British were drug dealers
They trafficked opium into China and when the government took measures to ban this it triggered the first Opium War.
China lost the battle and was forced to sign the treaty of Nanjing that forced its ports to open up to foreign trade and ceded HK to Britain
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