Complete the following sentence: The British East India Company saw the opium trade as an investment opportunity in 1683 AD. In 1773 the Governor of Bengal established a monopoly on the production of Bengal opium, on behalf of the East India Company. ️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️ The British balanced an economic deficit from the import of Chinese tea by selling Indian opium which was smuggled into China in defiance of Chinese government bans.<unk> The British balanced an economic deficit from the import of Chinese tea by selling Indian opium which was smuggled into China in defiance of Chinese government bans.<unk> The British balanced an economic deficit from the import of Chinese tea by selling Indian opium which was smuggled into China in defiance of Chinese government bans. 1842) and the First (1839<unk>1842) and the
Second Opium Wars (1856<unk>1860) between China and Britain.