If a survey is conducted in the West about the Opium Wars, very few would know about them today. Even the few who actually know about them will likely not hold the Brits and other Western powers responsible. The reason is because the West has been whitewashing this history. Case in point was the 1997 Hong Kong hand-over. The Western media spent virtually no time educating … [Read more...] about New national story or not, Orville Schell and John Delury’s article whitewashes Western atrocities