Opium Wars - Imperialism in China

The start of the Opium wars was that British wanted to trade with china, but since china was Isonalists they dint feel comfortable on trading. they were isolated from other countries they thought they were better than every one else. Then British started giving out free opium, opium was a drug that was given to the Chinese people for free for there plan. Very soon the Chinese people became very addicted to it. so the British stop giving out opium unless china will let them trade tea with them. then china got mad and started the war with them both. since china was isonalist they weren't very strong but they thought they were which mad them really far behind.