Libs telling on themselves when they say things like that is so funny. Like, I get that in some ways, it makes sense that if something happened a long enough time ago then it stops being relevant. But that's only really true of the stuff that makes local news. A major historical process like the Opium Wars literally shapes history for eternity: it determines crucial changes in the allocations of capital worldwide, impacts the entire society of major geopolitical powers, and shapes international relations forever because they have cascading echoes of tit-for-tat that will literally last until the end of human history. But if you're a liberal, I guess all of that isn't as important as the vibes and just using racist caricatures as the tea leaves to do geopolitical analysis with.