Opium wars

The british would only trade gold and silver for tea from china. China didn't need anything besides the gold that Britain had but Britain didn't want to trade gold for tea. so instead britain decided to trade opium. Britain thought if maybe they could get china addicted to opium then they could trade that for tea. The chinese tried to fight off the drugs. Sadly they couldn't and the drug was forced upon them. the british won because of their superior navy and weapons.