David Sassoon person
also: David Solomon Sassoon, Sassoon
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“And Sassoon were opium dealers, trade dealers, trading ships, everything. And so they had a market set up where they were both into textiles. And remember how the Civil War, the Southern cotton was being shipped over to where India, where t…”
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When you look into the India's caste system, they are actually a Persian family who moved to India. And that is true. They were also very close and like friendly competitors of another group or another man by the name of David Solomon Sasso…
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They literally were in business side by side in the exact same industries. And guess what business they were in way back in the day in the 1800s. Remember how we told the story about how opium came to be grown in China through the British b…
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And Sassoon were opium dealers, trade dealers, trading ships, everything. And so they had a market set up where they were both into textiles. And remember how the Civil War, the Southern cotton was being shipped over to where India, where t…
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So Sassoon is a Jewish guy from Iraq. And depending on what you read, Wikipedia will tell you that he moved to Iran and then eventually to India because of persecution of the Jewish people. But actually, it was because he got caught in corr…
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Opium war where the UK ended up, the Boxer War, with Hong Kong as a possession. They would eventually end up with Shanghai as a possession as well because China couldn't defeat the UK in their piping in of opium into China. So China ends up…
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Sassoon. And then the warlords like Chiang Kai-shek are involved in the production of it inside of China. Do you see how it all ties together? So what I did was just kind of look around at these two people. And it's amazing when you look at…