The Boston Massarce and the Repeal of Taxes under the Townshend acts began huge protests across the colonies.
They were all afraid of irritating people (who vote). Since people (who vote) decided their unavoidable future, they didn't want to take any strong stances on anything and just went with the flow and played the tune that the people wanted to hear. They needed to stay in power and not lose it for taking a serious stance..........
The roots of the Opium War (or First China War) lay in a trade dispute between the British and the Chinese Qing Dynasty. ... 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.
