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Indigenous people of the used this plant (which Europeans named "cinchona") medicinally. As a result of imperialism, cinchona spread globally -- the only effective malaria treatment until the 1930s. Today we call its active ingredient quinine.

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2018-09-26

"... to further protect our Asian values against the evils of Western liberal imperialism, some changes have been made..."

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2017-06-01

Political Cartoon of John Bull (England) as the octopus of imperialism, grabbing land on every continent, 1888.

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2015-12-03