Drug Bank HSCB & Opium War

With all the crazyness in Shanghai i found this old article about some of the deepstates interest in the city.

" So in times of financial war (HSBC) and other concerns, it may be an idea to look at the basics of the geographical division, which are really just the same old colonial forms as usual. who had the patent on Heroin need not be mentioned but it can be seen in the picture.

The opium wars in everyday speech were two wars in the middle of the 19th century, where mainly the colonial powers England and France forced China to accept the opium trade and to also give trade privileges to the victorious powers. These wars are often regarded as the beginning to the end of China’s cultural history as an empire.

Based on its size, location and distance from Europe, China had a variety of goods, including silk, tea and porcelain, which were coveted by Europeans, while Europe could not really offer any barter goods that were of interest to the Chinese - except silver.

To improve the trading situation for themselves, English merchants and trading houses began to illegally export opium to China in the early 19th century. This opium was grown, among other places, in the British East India Company’s colony of India and formed part of the trade route for slave cotton - cloth opium, which was the very core of the British East India Company’s operations.

Opium was traded in exchange for Chinese goods, which led to widespread opium abuse in China - probably the first really large-scale drug abuse in history.

In the years 1827–1828, 9,535 opium chests were introduced to China, compared to 26,818 chests during the period 1835–1836.

The Chinese government had already begun to take measures in the 18th century to combat this consumption, which was harmful to the population in all respects, but this only led to extensive trade, supported by England.

The Chinese government therefore tried to stop the opium trade in 1839, and the mandarin Lin Zexu, who had been given special powers by the emperor to stop the opium trade, demanded in Canton to confiscate British warehouses with about 20,000 chests of opium.

The then English resident Charles Elliot, then called on the English merchants to give in to this demand from the Chinese, and promised compensation from the English government to the merchants.

The opium was handed over to the Chinese and burned. When at the same time the English refused to extradite a countryman who had killed a Chinese in a fight, the Chinese government issued a ban on selling food to the English both in Macao and in Canton. These were the events that led to the first opium war (1839–1842)

Because of this, the English had to leave Macao and instead go to Hong Kong, where the Chinese tried the same thing to block the supply of English possessions without success. The British government then further demanded trade, and that British nationals should not be convicted by Chinese courts, as well as damages for destroyed opium.

These demands were not accepted by China, and therefore the English (1840) declared war.
The English fleet then blocked the Bocca Tigris at the mouth of the Canton River and destroyed Xiamen, and sailed on to the mouth of Biehe to leave the emperors and communes of the English government to the emperor in Beijing, which the canton mandarin had refused to accept.

The emperor promised to send a commissioner to the canton to negotiate peace with the English, if the English fleet withdrew there.

Admiral Elliot agreed to this and the negotiations began at the end of November, but were delayed by the Chinese. Following British pressure in the form of acts of war, a preliminary treaty was concluded on January 20, 1841, according to which the port of Canton was reopened for trade and the English received Hong Kong as a colony and a further six million dollars in damages.

Furthermore, a regulation of the relations of both powers to each other would take place. However, neither the British nor the Chinese government approved the treaty, so hostilities resumed.

Once again a ceasefire was concluded; but when the Chinese did not take the peace talks seriously, but instead drew together an operational army, the commander of the English ground forces in China, Sir Hugh Gough, advanced towards Guangzhou and on March 25, 1941 defeated a Chinese army over 50,000 strong.

The British won this battle and continued to threaten to occupy Canton, when China again offered peace and on 27 May the British adopted the terms of peace with some changes. China would pay war damages.

The treaty was concluded by Elliot, who had already been deposed due to the mild treaty dated January 20, 1841.

Elliot’s successor, Henry Pottinger, did not see himself bound by any peace agreement. Instead, he intended to go more strongly. The English fleet left Hong Kong on 21 August 1841, and during the autumn, winter and spring the British occupied several strategic locations along the coast of China and occupied Shanghai on 19 June 1842.

When the English navy threatened Nanking in August 1842, China was forced to make peace.

This peace was concluded on August 29, 1942 in Nanking on the condition that the ports of Canton, Amoy, Fuzhou, Ningbo and Shanghai would be open to all nations, and that foreign consuls would be allowed to settle there. Which was a paraphrase of the English establishment.

The English would also receive Hong Kong from China, and be reimbursed with $ 21 million for their war expenses.

In July 1843, the new trading system came into force, and on October 9 of the same year, an addition was made to the Peace Treaty, allowing European merchants to lease and build land in the five ports mentioned.

A number of nations that did not participate in the war also concluded trade agreements with China, including Sweden-Norway which concluded the Treaty of Canton in March 1847. Which with all desirability describes the role that the British East India Company played in relation to the Swedish state. This also sheds light on the aversion that exists in the British East India Company towards the Swedish Gustav III and his support for the American War of Independence.

Second Opium War (1856–1860)

The Second Opium War broke out after the execution of a French Catholic missionary in June 1856 and the capture of the English merchant ship Arrow, whose Chinese crew of the Viceroy of Guangzhou had been imprisoned on charges of misconduct, even though the ship was flying the English flag. was insulted in the presence of several Mandarins in the port of Guangzhou, October 8, 1856.

In English this is called, the second opium war the Arrow War.

The Viceroy rejected the English consul Harry Parkes’ demand for restoration of the insult with the flag, and for a treaty to test the accusations made against English subjects, ie Chinese sailors, the sailors at Arrow. The dispute led to an armed intervention by the British Admiral Sir M. Seymour, who on October 29 forced his entry into the canton, which, despite the peace conditions in Nanking, had not yet been opened to foreigners and their free establishments.

Furthermore, Minister Palmerston, in agreement with the French Government, decided to regard these events as a valid cause of war, and thereby postpone its negotiating positions.

War in China was therefore declared by England and France in 1857 with the two events as a basic pretext. Canton was occupied since January 5, 1858, and the Anglo-French fleet sailed on to Pei Ho, destroying some smaller Chinese fortifications during the voyage.

The Palmeston Ministry then sent in May 1858, a flotilla of gunboats up the Pei-Ho River to Tientsin.
On June 8, peace talks began, and on June 13, 15, 26 and 27, China concluded treaties in Tientsin with Russia, the United States, England and France.

Christianity would be tolerated throughout the country, consulates would be established in China, diplomatic agents would have the right to appear and live in Beijing, new ports would be opened for trade, sailing on Jang Tse Kiang would be free, opium imports would be allowed, and strangers would be provided with their government passports. get travel in the interior of China. Which must be seen as a very obvious strategic package of power-political measures.

Somewhat earlier (May 28, 1858), Russia concluded a separate treaty with China, when it received the Chinese, on the left Amur coast lying Amurland.

China, however, did not appear to intend to maintain the relations entered into, as they reasonably considered that they had the right to their own land before the English, but China armed itself instead of a new war, and began the hostilities by shelling part of the Anglo-French fleet. on the Pei-Ho River.

The Allied colonial powers immediately strengthened their ground forces, and landed at Pei Hos mouth on August 1, 1860 with a task force of 25,500 men. The contingent conquered several strongholds there, and on 13 October occupied Beijing, where the French occupied and in a vandalistic manner plundered the emperor’s summer palace.

The Chinese also found fruitless resistance and opened negotiations, which at the end of October led to a peace signed by the emperor on November 2, called the Beijing Convention, which contained the same conditions as in the Treaty of 1858, but now with increased war damages of 60 million francs. England and 30 million to France.

The English and French envoys took up residence in Beijing in March 1861 and in July also in the United States.
In this way, China finally became open to the exploitation of the colonial states.

The Society for the Suppression of Opium Trade was an organization founded in 1874 in London, with the aim of, among other things, exerting pressure on the British Parliament in order to ban the extensive and, as the organization considered, the deeply immoral opium sales to China that England conducted.

Opium therefore soon began to be grown in China as well, and by the beginning of the 20th century, when British exports of opium were forced to cease for public reasons, domestic cultivation had already become completely dominant.

Opium therefore continued to be abused on a large scale in China, until the victory of the Communists in the Chinese Civil War in 1949.

So at least until the 1950s, it is fully documented established in the way that British interests with government English support, have actively contributed to the trade in opium, one can imagine… which bank did what? Tjaaaeee they still go for the money laundering, so it does not need to be described further."

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And here is that swedish connections explained.

Opium & The Swedish East India Company

"The infamous history of opium in China began with the use of opium for medical purposes in the 7th century. In the 17th century, a practice of mixing opium with tobacco for smoking from Southeast Asia spread, which created a much greater demand.

The import of opium to China stood at 200 chests annually in 1729, when the first anti-opium dictation was issued. When Chinese authorities issued the ban in stronger terms in 1799, the numbers had jumped up a bit; 4,500 chests were imported annually in 1800. The decade of the 1830s witnessed a rapid increase in the opium trade and in 1838, just before the first opium war, it had climbed to a not so shy 40,000 chests. The rise continued after the Treaty of Nanking (1842) which ended that war. We leave the Second War aside in this text for the sake of clarity. By 1858, the annual import had increased to 70,000 chests (4480 long tons (4550 tons)), which roughly corresponded to the global opium production during the decade around the year 2000. Not so very little then …

At the end of the 19th century, Chinese domestic opium production challenged imports and then surpassed imports. The 20th century therefore opened with effective campaigns to suppress domestic agriculture, and in 1907 the British government signed a treaty to eliminate imports. In Sweden, the East Asian Company was created The decline of the Qing Dynasty in 1911, however, led to a boom in domestic production. The nationalist government, the county administrative boards, the revolutionary foundations of the Communist Party of China and the British colonial government of Hong Kong were essentially dependent on opium taxes as important sources of income, as were the Japanese occupying governments during the Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). After 1949, both the respective governments of the People’s Republic of China on the mainland and the Republic of China in Taiwan claimed that they had successfully suppressed the extensive growth and use of opium. In fact, opium products were still in production in Xinjiang and northeastern China.

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The Swedish East India Company

As early as 1626, the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf planned for an East India Company, but war and years of distress put a stop to the plans, while the second serious attempt found its abrupt stop after Charles XII was shot to death at Fredriksten’s fortress. It was not until 1731 that they succeeded in creating an East India Company through the care of the Scots Colin Campbell, Niclas Sahlgren and Henrik König.

The company would be based in Gothenburg - a Swedish city on the west coast that was founded primarily so that ships would not have to sail into the Baltic Sea and thus be able to bypass the Danes’ customs duties - and whose purpose would be to trade exclusively with China. Gothenburg was thus named the company’s home port, where the auctions of the exotic goods brought home would also take place, something that would make the city one of Sweden’s richest and most important, along with Stockholm and Norrköping.

However, Sweden was far from the only country with an East India Company in this cool time, even England, the Netherlands, France, Denmark but also the United States, had their own and this as early as the early 17th century. It was decided that the new Swedish trading company would operate in an area where France and the United Kingdom dominated, but the company’s trading monopoly provided advantages. The trade was not purely Swedish, as British traders outside the British East India Company participated by investing in the Swedish East India Company.

As a parenthesis here, it should perhaps be mentioned how the British and strongest East India Company, also known as The John Company, had a British trading monopoly that was extended to supremacy in what became British India. Before India became a directly controlled British colony in 1858, the British East India Company had its own army, its own intelligence service collective and its own fleet. The British / company succeeded by establishing control over important strategic constraints and trade routes later, according to self-written maritime laws, established customs rights over the world’s oceans.

One of several examples of this is, for example, the British colony of the Falkland Islands off Argentina, which was one of these strategic points, where everyone who wanted to sail around the southern tip of South America first had to add to pay customs at the islands if they did not want to risk to have their entire cargo confiscated by the British during any inspection, as patrolling with their own boats around the southern tip, when in such a scenario they could not show a receipt for their cargo. Another example we see over Gibraltar, the entrance to the Mediterranean, which is still a British colony, where the same order applied to those who wanted to sail into the Mediterranean.

Furthermore, a certain gentleman named Warren Delano had major interests in the American East India Company Russel & Company. Warren lived in China for nine years and served as chief operating officer in Macao, Canton and Hong Kong, where his greatest achievement would be the expansion of Russell & Company’s opium trade. A trade that allowed the Delanos family to be considered one of the wealthiest families in the United States at the time. His grandson Franklin Delano Roosevelt would later become the 32nd President of the United States in the period between 1933-1945 - ie during the rise and fall of Nazi Germany.

To name one of the more famous travelers on the Swedish East India Company, Jacob Wallenberg is probably the one who stands out the most, who traveled with the ship Finland to China in 1769-1771. Worth mentioning may be the self-portrait that Jacob Wallenberg painted and which is published in a travelogue from this adventure, “My son on the galley”, where he is holding a smoke device that looks suspiciously like an opium pipe.

In total, the Swedish company sent 132 expeditions to China and India until 1806. The company was formally dissolved in 1813 and trade in the East Indies became free for everyone, but by then trading houses and counter-trading partners had already been established on these routes, so no one really had any. opportunity for competition outside the framework of this already established structure, which was largely based on the illicit opium trade as a counter-commodity. The Chinese partners who became particularly wealthy in this trade are what today corresponds to the Chinese mafia - the white dragon.

It should also be mentioned that the bank HSBC was founded on this very trade, and as recently as just a couple of three years ago the bank went there to launder drug money, such as that a certain Al-Yamamah fund managed by the bank both turned out to finance Sunni sectarian extremism in Saudi Arabia, such as BAE - Europe’s largest arms group - being one of its largest contributors, after the bank was hacked.

This trade in turn led to the two opium wars in the mid-19th century, caused by the colonial powers England and France due to the opium epidemic that arose in its wake, and which eventually forced China to accept the opium trade and also grant trade privileges to the victorious powers. These wars are often regarded as the beginning to the end of China’s cultural history as an empire. That Sweden and Norway were on a small corner - despite the fact that the Swedish East India Company was liquidated - and signed an opium agreement with China in 1847 may be worth considering in this for further contextual understanding, such as that the Wallenbergs Enskilda Bank family was founded nine years later in 1856…"

Seems many fortunes rest on altering the human consciousness.

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Thank you Soupcommie for this very interesting information. I did not realise that that there was a Swedish East India Company - but this makes a lot of sense. In research, I have run into the Wallenberg family many times. The Wallenbergs have long tentacles that are quietly spread around the world, and nobody seems to know.

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Yeah, seems like everywhere there is something sketchy going on you can find a Wallenberg/swedish connection.

They are smart enough to always hide behind a seemingly more powerful entity every time though.
But if you add up everything they are doing they are unique in the amount of different venues they operate in.
But they have a serious talent of downplaying their role.

Found this very well writen article detailing alot of the major events that lead to the opium wars and everything after.

I esp found this section interesting…

" Several of the people who were active in the company therefore took the initiative to join the Swedish East India Company, which was formally formed in 1731. Colin Campbell was one of these. An important part of the Ostendekompaniets activity seems to have been precisely the opium trade, with purchases in Bengal at first and later with purchases in Batavia.

After the decision of dissolution was taken by the Austrian ruler, the opportunity for the independent trade of the Ostend Company disappeared and in 1730 their factories were captured by the British. In the end, several of the ships of the Company of Oostende sailed under what could be called a flag of convenience, one, for example, sailed under a Polish flag.

The ships, like SOIC’s ships, were later very rarely attacked by pirates and many believe that this is due to the fact that the Ostend Company, like the Swedish company, initially recruited many people who had previously been pirates as crewmen and co-owners.

During the early 18th century, England and its colony India had problems with pirates based mainly on the island of Madagascar. England responded by outlawing their activities in 1717.

To get a legal framework for i.a. their opium trade in China, these great powers approached Sweden’s King Karl XII, who in 1718 issued a privilege for an East India Company against very large financial promises. The death of the king in Norway and the fall of the great power Sweden in the same year, however, make Swedish military protection for the pirates’ intended trading companies in Southeast Asia impossible, and these instead begin to operate through the Ostend company."

So basicly the Swedish east india company used “pirates” as crewmen since the couldnt get official military support(proxy merc army)

At the same time England had major issues with pirates messing with their drug running.

Ever heard of Skull and Bones? (pirateflag)
Also doesnt “pirates” that comes from the word privateer(merc) behave alot like vikings?
Seems basicly like the same job but with a new brand name?