Hong Kong: Britain's 22-year shame

[Tuuvi]

While we're talking about British colonialism let's not forget that the British invaded China twice and forced them to pay huge sums of money in order to punish the Qing government for trying to crack down on opium smuggling when the Chinese population was in the midst of an addiction crisis.

I don't know much about British colonialism in India but I feel like I can say with some confidence that European colonialism in general was a cruel, evil institution that was primarily based on greed with no regard for the sovereignty or material needs of the peoples the Europeans subjugated.

The whole idea that the British were "civilizing" the nations they colonized was never anything more than an excuse for exploiting lands that didn't belong to them, and it was an arrogant, racist excuse at that. The British may have stamped out some evil practices during their time in India but they had no right to ever rule over India in the first place.