Except the Chinese were the one's fighting to stop opium, at least as far as I remember it. The English were upset at Chinese for blowing up the opium stocks of the East India Company (those no good english profiteers). The Chinese did this because they were trying to end the opium trade. The result of the wars was China was forced to legalize opium.
Yeah I agree they were trying to stop it, I remember it like that too. The opium was produced in India and sold by "English spies" to enslave China. I actually did a video on that, on the exact same subject before I watch your Video on the eclipse. In the documentary I watched they pretend the English won because they have better weapon but my opinion is that the opium war degraded China way of life, just like terrorism do actually.