The 'New Opium War': America's deadly fentanyl invasion could be China's revenge for 'century of humiliation'

China fought two Opium Wars with Europe in the 1800s while suffering a crisis of opium addiction. Is it now seeking revenge by flooding the U.S. with synthetic opioids today?

A crisis of addiction in China in the 19th century, reportedly fed by European imperial powers, paved the way for foreign domination and sparked two conflicts called the Opium Wars.  "China finds fentanyl a profitable export to Mexico with the added benefit it kills 100,000 Americans yearly." "For at least a century, public memory of the First Opium War in China has served as the founding episode of Chinese patriotism." "China is the lead nation for the production of precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl and the Chinese chemical industry is the most unregulated industry in all of China." "China only references the Opium War as propaganda to justify post facto this self-interested drug export policy." Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.

It marked the depths of a social, cultural and political catastrophe widely known in China today as the "century of humiliation."