China Opium War

In the early 1900’s, the trafficking of opium had posed an enormous threat to the China, as it ruined human’s health, destroyed mankind and weakened the morale of soldiers. The consequences of opium trafficking and movement of imports from Western trade also impoverished the economy in China – which, also leads to the unfair “Anglo-Chinese Agreement” signed by the Chinese. As China was moving away from the Imperialism to Republic of China, those issues were supposed to disappear, in the governance of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Mao Zedong, the chairman of the CCP, had claimed to be the most fervent of the Chinese interest and loudly condemned the Western countries for their opium traffic [294].   However, history shows that Mao is not a leader that is accountable for his words, and jeopardized the nation’s moral principle when his communist revolution ran into trouble.   The following paragraphs will examine Mao’s ignorance; selfishness and escalation of commitment to his mistake that scars his reputation of a respectful revolutionist in China’s history.    
First of all, Mao was ignorant about the nation’s needs and inserted several bad policies.   To start off with, the CCP has been promoting the Dazhai way of living for their revolution, where peasants would learn “how to create new men and women through ideological struggle, how to produce economic miracles through the mass line, how to change terrain through human efforts and how to overcome poverty through community endeavours.” [263] This all sounded too beautiful, in fact, it was really hard to accomplish without any blockage.   In order to fuel the revolution, the CCP attracted the middle to lower class, by confiscating the grain, livestock, and properties of the landlord and rich peasants to redistribute them to the equality principle. This moved paid off as poor peasants were very supportive to the CCP and followed the Dazhai way, but what Mao neglected was the financial instability the land...