Current events December 9,2010

The article talks about of many weapons have made. China has developed a system to launch those missiles from trucks.It also says  that the missile has the range to hit the north-western United States.It says too that Chinese have more confidence doing this because by creating this advancements in weapons you will see their navy protecting sea lanes and oil supplies from the middle East.America is scared  that China  & more European contries will have more advanced weapons than them.

The Opium wars & After  the Chinese was defeated by the British ; the british still had the  power ove Chinas society, the also opened ports of Canton, Amoy, Fushou, Ningbo, and Shanghai, with this they allowed British mercahants to enter their products.They also legalize the opium because the Chinese became more addictive and this bringed China down.

 I think that China is now better that they were in the Opium wars because the back then in Opium wars China was poor & it was going down. Chinese people used the drug Opium but now everything seem to change because Chinese are trying to improve.This connects to the article because it shows that China is getting more advanced in technolgy & weapons  like doing the missile to improve their navy & protect their land, & today is known as a powerful and a strong country because of their accomplisments after the Opium wars.