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73% of the US President’s ancestors drug trafficking to China, professor: most of the capital accumulation in the US comes from opium 73%的美国总统祖上对华贩毒，教授：美国资本积累大部分来自鸦片

复旦大学中国研究院副院长范勇鹏最近在一档节目中说了这样一段话：”我在美国斯坦福大学上一门课的时候，一位历史学教授跟我讲了一个事儿，他说Doctor Fan，你知不知道，我们美国早期的工业化的资本积累，绝大多数来自于你们中国的鸦片贸易，我当时都不相信！”

说句实在话，国师听到这样的观点之后也是惊讶颇多，所以我跟范勇鹏先生做了一样的举动：阅读大量的资料。经过一段时间的研读，我深以为然。

尽管在许多人的印象中，鸦片贸易可能一直是”英国人”的专利，但身为大英帝国长子的美利坚合众国实际上也是深深的参与其中，其贸易份额一度达到了42%之多。而这些鸦片贸易产生的新权贵，则是美国此后政治、经济生活的主力军，美国45任总统中，33任总统在血缘上和鸦片贩子有直接关系。

Fan Yongpeng, vice president of the China Research Institute of Fudan University, recently said in a program: “when I was taking a course at Stanford University in the United States, a history professor told me something. He said Doctor Fan, do you know that the vast majority of the capital accumulation of our early industrialization in the United States came from your opium trade in China, and I didn’t believe it at that time?”

To be honest, the teacher was surprised to hear such a point of view, so I did the same thing as Mr. Fan Yongpeng: read a lot of material. After a period of study, I was impressed by it.​。

Although the opium trade may have been the patent of the “British” in the impression of many, the United States of America, the eldest son of the British Empire, was in fact deeply involved, with a trade share of as much as 42 per cent. The new dignitaries produced by these opium trade are the main forces in the political and economic life of the United States since then. Of the 45 presidents of the United States, 33 have a direct relationship with opium traffickers in blood.

In 1805, the first American drug-trafficking ship was loaded with 124 bales and 51 cartons of tobacco from Smyrna, Türkiye, to the United States and then to China. The three brigs are generally believed to have been the start of the American opium trade with China, but there is no evidence that previous Americans were not involved in this evil act.

Until then, the United States could only export fur and precious metals to China and suffered from the huge trade deficit caused by tea and silk. British control of opium plantations such as India and Myanmar makes them seem to have monopolized the trade. But the ingenuity of the Americans opened the door to the opium trade with China.

They found another opium-growing site, Turkey, and developed a new trade route. Despite the long journey, the price is almost three times the cost, and it is a well-worth “business”.

​Fan Yongpeng, vice president of the China Research Institute of Fudan University, recently said in a program: “when I was taking a course at Stanford University in the United States, a history professor told me something. He said Doctor Fan, do you know that the vast majority of the capital accumulation of our early industrialization in the United States came from your opium trade in China, and I didn’t believe it at that time?”

The poor quality of opium produced in the Middle East, but its low price, suddenly opened up the “sinking market” in China.Received a “warm welcome” from the ordinary people, so that opium no longer become the “exclusive” of the rich class “Fushou ointment.” The Chinese have also made this distinction, calling Turkish opium a small soil and Indian opium a big soil, which, of course, has led to many Chinese “adulterers” mixing small soil into the big soil for the second time.

After developing raw material sources in the Persian Gulf, its profit margin has increased by 25%. Because the opium smuggling trade only required money for corrupt Chinese officials and did not need to pay taxes, it was easier to do than the original “legal” fur trade and attracted a large number of American businessmen.

Between 1805 and 1834, the United States imported 16,305 chests of opium to China (estimated), accounting for 42% of the total opium shipped to China in the two years 1817-18.

Many merchants also took advantage of it, such as John Jacob Astor, the first millionaire in American history, who started trading furs with China and had to find another way after losing his share of the trade to the British during the War of 1812.

In 1816, he began to engage in opium smuggling trade. John first went to Turkey to buy 10 tons of opium and resell it to China. It is generally believed that between 1816 and 1825, John delivered hundreds of thousands of pounds of opium to China, becoming his most profitable “sideline”.

Britain and America compete and collude with each other in the opium trade. The Americans used cheap Turkish tobacco to open the market, the British are under the cruel direct large-scale expansion of production, suddenly pulled down the price of opium in India, the profits of the Americans greatly damaged. Later, however, the British allowed the Americans free passage on the route between Calcutta and Canton.

Since the United States began importing opium to China, the United States has imported much less silver to China. In 1836 there was only less than one million yuan per year, compared with about 4 million yuan two or three decades earlier, which made the Qing silver famine even more serious.

Before the Opium War, the opium trade between China, Britain and the United States was in fact “a small fight”, and the scale after the Opium War was even more terrible.

The antismoking campaign of 1839 uncovered a huge amount of smuggled opium, the third largest in the United States​This, of course, poked a sore point between Britain and the United States. Without the opium trade, their trade advantages and most “viable” commercial activities would be terminated, which is obviously not what they want to see.

So the next story is familiar to you. Britain brazenly launched the war against China and encountered little decent resistance in the next two years, with only a few examples of anti-British warfare, such as veteran Guan Tianpei’s defense of Guangzhou and Zhenjiang’s 2400 martyrs.

On August 29, 1842, the Qing Dynasty and the British government signed the humiliating “Nanjing Treaty”, in which there was no serious negotiation during which there was no serious negotiation. However, the ministers of the Qing Dynasty felt that the most humiliating thing was that the name of the emperor of the Qing Dynasty was written side by side with the name of the Huang Mao Yi woman (Queen Victoria), rather than cutting the land indemnity to open the trade or so on.

In 1844, the Americans followed and signed the “Treaty of Wangxia” with China, which was similar to the conditions of the British.

In fact, the Qing government felt that these treaties were generally considered expedient, and that foreigners could be fooled and deceived at will.The text of the Treaty of Nanking was not promulgated at all, and was kept in the yamen of the viceroys of Guangdong and Guangxi.The treaty stipulates that the British can go to Guangzhou to live in the future, but local officials do not perform, all kinds of Taiji, the Chinese do not regard the British as human beings, or as “not human”barbarians”, which is angry with the Angelsaxon nation.

Of course, their best means of “revenge” during this period of time is to import opium into China frantically, corrupting the whole society of China. In the five trade period, the whole southeast coast “a piece of erosion”, Anglo-American opium all over the place.

In 1847, Shanghai imported 16400 cartons of opium. By 1859, Shanghai had imported 33786 cases of opium, a figure that was the sum of the whole country 20 years ago. Opium trade accounted for the first place in many trade ports in China, while the United States accounted for 1/3 of the opium trade, ranking second. Huge opium sales have also directly offset the trade deficit between China and the United States.

Such a large-scale smuggling trade naturally has the acquiescence of Qing government officials.Coastal officials, in particular, often charged opium peddlers three percent of their gross sales and colluded with Britain and the United States to exploit the people and sell drugs that could roam the streets as long as they were not in the presence of high-ranking officials.

But despite this, Britain and the United States still feel that the income is not enough to make a profit, and they want to compete for the next commanding heights: the legalization of the opium trade.​The Treaty of Wangxia stipulated that the treaty could be amended 12 years after it was signed, but the Qing government did not intend to renew the contract. Britain and France started the war in October 1856 under the pretext of the Arrow incident and the Ma Abb incident, and the United States and Russia sat in the rear to reap the benefits of the fishermen.

The British and French allied forces broke into Beijing and set fire to the Old Summer Palace, which became the eternal pain of the Chinese nation. After the Second Opium War, the four countries forced the Qing government to sign the “Tianjin Treaty” and “Beijing Treaty,” which further expanded the invasion of trade with China, and finally put the opium trade on the “legalization” coat, and even some Chinese provinces began to cultivate opium sales.

​Since then, opium began to run amok in Chinese society, drugs in the spirit and material erosion of this ancient nation.The United States also made huge profits from the opium trade in these decades, which greatly promoted the second industrial revolution.

Because of the evil opium trade, the American society produced a new group of powerful elites. The birth of these new powerful elites marked that the United States had completed the initial primitive accumulation of capital before the Second Industrial Revolution, and played a great role in promoting the industrialization process of the United States.There are three main ways to promote American industrialization:

I,Of large numberInvestment in infrastructure, such as investing in philanthropy, building hospitals, railroads, and schools, created a number of early American cities.

II.Use this moneyOpening a factoryThe creation of more wealth greatly promoted the early industrialization of the United States.

III.These wealthy Americans control American politics through “individual alliances.”​The United States government is fully prepared for industrialization.

The Perkins family from Boston best exemplifies the “rise” of America’s new elite. The Perkins family was one of the first American families to set up a trade office in Canton for the purpose of selling opium.

The family owned only seven ships, but in 1826 it became the first millionaires in American history. After getting this money, the Perkins family and other new Boston dignitaries immediately “repay the villagers” and actively participate in the construction of their hometown of Boston.

​Salem State University historian Dane Morrison said: ” The money changed the face of Boston and made it possible for Boston to become one of the world’s true civic cities. “（That money changes the face of Boston and makes it possible for Boston to develop a reputation as one of the world’s true civic cities）

This “ill-gotten gains” (opium trafficking was legal in the United States at the time) were transformed into “charity money” in the United States.​

Thomas Perkins (Thomas Perkins) first invested in the railway between Quincy quarry and BostonSome historians call it the first true railroad in American history.The Perkins family also invested extensively in steamships, mines, and railroads.

Massachusetts, where Boston is located, is in thePublic expenditure is heavily dependent on the opium trade, they used the money to build a lot of roads and bridges and maintain the courts and fire departments and schools and hospitals. On the other hand, the opium trade promoted philanthropy in Boston.​The Perkins family financed the Massachusetts General Hospital, McLean Hospital, and the Boston Athenaeum Hospital, libraries, colleges, secondary schools, orphanages, and schools for the blind, all bearing the names of opium magnates.

The contributions of these opium tycoons to their hometown made Boston the “most human looking” city in the early history of the United States, but this “human feeling” was based on the suffering of countless Chinese people across the ocean.

​The American historian Haddad had to admit: ” Opium was indeed a way for the United States to be able to shift China’s economic power to the American industrial revolution. “（Opium was really a way that America was able to transfer China’s economic power to America’s industrial revolution. ）

Phyllis Forbes Kerr compiled a book about her great-grandfather, Robert Bennett Forbes, who was an opium baron

These histories were not widely shared in America, and the descendants of opium barons in Boston almost never discussed the origins of their family’s wealth, but there were American intellectuals who knew and were ashamed of it.

​Boston Athenaeum Hospital, for example, issued a statement saying: ” Our own heritage, like that of many historic institutions, reveals its inherent contradictions. We acknowledge that the Perkins brothers have built their fortune at the expense of the lives of others… while supporting numerous educational, medical and cultural causes through generous philanthropy. “（Our own legacy, like that of many historic institutions, reveals inherent contradictions. We acknowledge that the Perkins brothers built their fortune at the expense of the lives of others … While supporting a great number of educational, medical, and cultural causes through their generous philanthropy.) Boston Athena Hospital also encourages people to dig into this history to alert the world.

Phyllis Forbes Kerr, a descendant of an opium baron, once wrote a book about his great-grandfather, Robert Bennett Forbes, which exposed such evil practices. She also revealed that when relatives and grandmother had dinner together, they once satirized her great-grandfather as a drug dealer.​The old lady was very unhappy.

There are many similar cases, these magnates became the vanguard of the early industrialization of the United States, greatly promoting the development of the second industrial revolution. As Fan Yongpeng, vice president of Fudan University’s Institute of China Studies, relayed: The vast majority of the capital accumulation of America’s early industrialization came from the opium trade with China.​

Since then, 33 of the 45 presidents of the United States have been tied to the opium trade (less than five uniforms), accounting for 73 per cent of the total. Among them, President Roosevelt’s grandfather, Warren Dillano (Warren Delano Jr.), was one of the partners of Qichang Foreign Company. Eleonora Randolph, the grandson of Jefferson, one of the founding fathers of the United States, also married the opium dealer leader, Sir Joseph Curry (Joseph Coolidge IV).

Although the opium trade was fruitful, with the development of the Second Industrial Revolution and the development of the West, This trade eventually died out and was formally abolished in the 1880 treaty between China and the United States, with China becoming a supplier of raw materials and a dumping ground for American industrial products (opium smuggling continued, albeit on a smaller scale).

Washington accused of betraying allies over Niger. The US has chosen its own interests over its allies, a French diplomat has told Le Figaro, following Victoria Nuland’s visit to Niger. 華盛頓被指控在尼日爾問題上背叛盟友。 在維多利亞·紐蘭訪問尼日爾後，一位法國外交官告訴《費加羅報》，美國選擇了自己的利益而不是盟友的利益.

The US “did the exact opposite of what we thought they would do,” a French diplomatic source told the paper, adding that “with allies like these, we do not need enemies.” Paris has been insisting on the reinstatement of ousted President Mohamed Bazoum ever since a new military government came to power in Niger in a coup in late July. 一位法國外交消息人士告訴該報，美國“做了與我們想像的完全相反的事情”，並補充說“有了這樣的盟友，我們不需要敵人。” 自從7月底尼日爾新軍政府在政變中上台以來，巴黎一直堅持要求被罷黜的總統穆罕默德·巴祖姆復職.

Ukraine matters to Biden more than Hawaii – The retired congressman Ron Paul has slammed the US president for backing a “losing war” as Maui burns 對敗登來說，烏克蘭比夏威夷更重要 – 退休國會議員羅恩·保羅抨擊美國總統在毛伊島燃燒時支持一場“失敗的戰爭”

Exclusive: China identifies the culprits behind cyberattack on Wuhan Earthquake Monitoring Center; a secretive US global reconnaissance system to be exposed 獨家：中國查明武漢地震監測中心網絡攻擊幕後黑手； 美國秘密全球偵察系統即將曝光

https://enapp.globaltimes.cn/article/1296226

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is a member of the United States Intelligence Community and an agency of the United States Department of Defense which designs, builds, launches, and operates the reconnaissance satellites of the U.S. federal government, and provides satellite intelligence to several government agencies, particularly signals intelligence (SIGINT) to the NSA, imagery intelligence (IMINT) to the NGA, and measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT) to the DIA. 國家偵察辦公室（NRO）是美國情報界的成員，也是美國國防部的一個機構，負責設計、建造、發射和運營美國聯邦政府的偵察衛星，並向多個國家提供衛星情報。政府機構，特別是NSA 的信號情報(SIGINT)、NGA 的圖像情報(IMINT) 以及DIA 的測量和簽名情報(MASINT).

Vijay Prashad video: The US always tells people what to do while China doesn’t. The world should studied China & US, not to copy it but to learn from it why China bring peace & prosperity verses US brings war and misery 美國總是告訴人們該做什麼，而中國卻不會。 世界應該研究中國和美國，不是為了複製，而是從中學習為什麼中國帶來和平與繁榮，而美國祇有帶來戰爭和苦難.
https://rumble.com/v37jgqo-china-bring-peace-and-prosperity-verses-us-brings-war-and-misery.html
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8N5Bg2C/

Eliminate US backed Taiwan Succession force , the world will be peaceful 消滅美國支持的台獨勢力，世界就太平了

Taiwan TVBS News Video: “Sinophobia” in US incurable! Chinese students studying in US & EU are spies! Qian Xuesen discovered US democracy and freedom in the 1950s were scam, and today 1000s of top Chinese scientists together with other tech talents exceed 20,000 left US 台灣中天新聞視頻: 中國都笑了!”恐華症”不得治!中國留學生是間諜! 錢學森早在1950年代在美國就知道美國的民主自由是一個騙局, 今天已經有幾千在美國的華人頂尖科學家返回中國聯同其他科技人才有二萬多人

https://rumble.com/v37hr4g-sinophobia-in-us-incurable.html
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8NPQAqu/

Welcome to America video: the land of the free to take what you want free. It is legal to shoplift but illegal to confront shoplifters 歡迎來到美國視頻: 這片自由的土地，你可以免費得到你想要的東西。 入店行竊是合法的，但對抗入店行竊者是違法.

https://rumble.com/v37g7w2-welcome-to-america-video-the-land-of-the-free-to-take-what-you-want-free.html
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8NftVEM/

California’s liberal politicians have proposed a new bill to prohibit businesses from stopping shoplifters — and punishing them if they intervene. Reform California says the offensive bill encourages crime, jeopardizes public safety, and treats crime victims worse than the criminals.

加州的自由派政客提出了一項新法案，禁止企業阻止商店扒手，並在他們干預時對其進行懲罰。 加州改革組織表示，這項進攻性法案鼓勵犯罪，危害公共安全，並且對待犯罪受害者比對待罪犯更糟糕.

Hong Kong Economic Times article by Bernard Chan: U.S. continues to exaggerate “China threat theory” to scare off investors

Bernard Charnwut Chan GBM GBS JP is a Hong Kong politician and businessman. He served as Non-official Convenor of the Executive Council from 2017 to 2022. He is a fellow Rosaryhill School Hong Kong Alumni

陳智思 GBM GBS JP 是香港政治家和商人。 他於2017年至2022年期間擔任執行委員會非官方召集人。他是玫瑰崗學校香港校友

香港經濟日報文章 陳智思

美續渲染「中國威脅論」 嚇退投資者
看到主流媒體（主要是美國的）不斷向人們散播，有關中國大陸處於戰備狀態和準備攻打台灣的錯誤信息，實在令人感到不安。這類報道不但加劇政治局勢緊張，亦無端增加公眾對出現軍事衝突的擔心。但似乎類似這些的新聞內容愈來愈多，連一些關注局勢發展的美國及其他地方的朋友，都聯絡我，表示擔心兩岸爆發戰爭的可能。

持續增多的不實陳述，目的就是要損害中國。另外，隨着2024年美國總統大選，有意見指，拋出所謂「中國威脅論」會成為候選人和影響美國選民內部派系的一種政治策略。

香港不幸地在這樣的情況下被推到風口浪尖上，商界企業亦因此受到不必要的損害。那些希望打擊中國並從中獲利的既得利益者，不斷發動媒體戰，令投資者為局勢感到擔憂和緊張。我們看到一些投資者無奈地被迫暫時撤離中國或香港，以減輕潛在的衝突和被制裁的風險。

其實，美國對台灣的官方立場，從時任美國總統卡特（Jimmy Carter）於1978年宣布的《中美建交公報》已表明：「美利堅合眾國承認中華人民共和國政府是中國的唯一合法政府。」而美國政府承認中國的立場「即只有一個中國，台灣是中國的一部分。」就如眾多社會議題，有些人未必同意官方立場；縱然有不同言辭和姿態，但官方立場就是官方立場，沒有改變。

前任總統特朗普（Donald Trump）執政期間，美國涉及台灣的言論和行動起了很大轉變。據總部設於紐約的智庫「外交關係協會」說法，美國不顧中國反對、深化與台灣關係，包括向台出售價值超過180億美元的軍事武器。在去年，時任美國眾議院議長佩洛西（Nancy Pelosi）訪台亦加劇了地區緊張局勢。這舉動蓄意激怒中國，也令中央政府增加在台海的軍事活動作應對。

很多人認為，美國對台灣之所以深感興趣，是基於台灣在半導體和芯片領域上的領先地位，而半導體和芯片是科技行業的命脈。這與深度學習和人工智能（Artificial Intelligence，AI）尤其相關。有人估算美國需要約十年時間，才能趕上及達至台灣這方面的能力。

眾所周知，美國曾多次在海外進行干預活動。在民主自由的旗幟下，把西方價值觀強加於其他主權國家，這往往會為意識形態、文化或政治制度不同的國家，提供採取敵對措施或軍事行動的理由，而多年來這造成難以計算的損害。就如我們所知的越戰、美國主導的海灣戰爭、以及對阿富汗或中東其他國家的干預所造成嚴重損害。至於誰能從這些行動中得益？答案顯然易見。

中國一向專注自己國內的事務，尤其希望加快疫情後的復甦步伐，刺激經濟增長。雖然國家已經讓數以億計的人民擺脫貧困，但繼續縮小貧富差距仍然是主要任務。另外，應對自然災害、青年失業、疲弱的房地產市場等，也是經濟復甦及全球經濟繁榮的關鍵。此外，國家也全力以赴應對長遠挑戰，開發可持續發展，已被國際能源機構（International Energy Agency，IEA）認為是在世界的再生能源擴展的先行者。

無論是身處中國內地、港澳特區、又或台灣地區的人都不希望發生衝突；大家都追求安定繁榮、接受教育和安居樂業，更希望為子孫後代創造可持續的未來。我們都明白任何行動若影響一個國家的領土完整性，都有可能會引發全面衝突，不符合人民的利益。

傳媒有責任以客觀、中立、平衡的方式來報道新聞，不應詆毁一個國家或助長敵對態度。我們並不是處於戰爭邊緣，兩岸三地正努力提速經濟增長、聚焦疫後復甦！請運用常識和智慧，不要為虛假或誤導性的報道吶喊助威、甚至成為幫兇。

US decoupling with China! What a foolish thing to do! 美國與中國脫鉤！ 這是多麼愚蠢的事啊！

Nature Magazine: China has surpassed the United States to become the leading nation in the Nature Index. This supplement highlights the research achievements of a country on the rise, which is broadening and deepening its capacity in areas such as environmental science and life sciences. But as the world emerges from the fog of the pandemic, will China stay centre-stage for international research collaboration? 《自然》雜誌：中國超越美國成為自然指數領先國家 該增刊重點介紹了一個正在崛起的國家的研究成果，該國家正在擴大和深化其在環境科學和生命科學等領域的能力。 但隨著世界逐漸走出疫情的迷霧，中國會繼續成為國際研究合作的中心舞台嗎？

https://www.nature.com/collections/hijfcadhdg

China has become the world’s leading nation in scientific research, that is, in the volume of high quality research. 中國在科學研究方面（即高質量研究的數量）已成為世界領先國家。

This is the conclusion drawn from a metric called Nature Index which is calculated annually for countries and institutions around the world by the journal Nature.. 這是根據名為“自然指數”的指標得出的結論，該指標每年由《自然》雜誌為世界各地的國家和機構計算。

Nature is the world’s premier journal of scientific investigation. 《自然》是世界首屈一指的科學研究期刊。

China has been steadily gaining on the US in recent years and now finally comes to the number one spot. 近年來，中國一直在穩步追趕美國，現在終於登上了第一的寶座。