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US women boxers celebrate wins, look toward China - seattlepi.com

AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. (AP) — The day after Queen Underwood , Marlen Esparza and Claressa Shields established themselves as the nation's toughest amateur boxers, everybody got manicures and pedicures.

The three winners of the first U.S. Olympic team trials for women's boxing were treated to a spa day after earning trips to the world championships with unbeaten runs through their weight divisions.

"Believe it or not, I'm already looking forward to getting back into training," Underwood said, reclining into a couch while soaking her feet. "I want to be there right now. I'm feeling really good about my chances. We're all focused on the next steps, and that's the world championships and the Olympics....

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A Marxist History of the World part 63: the rape of China | Counterfire

N 14 August 1900, an international invasion force of 19,000 men captured the Chinese imperial capital of Beijing. British, French, German, Russian, Italian, Japanese, and American troops all took part in a military operation whose purpose was to suppress a nationalist revolt against colonialism.

The revolt was led by members of a secret organisation called ‘the Society of the Righteous Harmonious Fists’ (popularly known as ‘Boxers’). It enjoyed the tacit support of the beleaguered imperial government of the Manchu Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi. Boxer rebels and Imperial troops fought side-by-side against the invaders.

The Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901) was neither the first nor the most powerful Chinese uprising against 19 century by turning large areas of India over to the cultivation of a commodity that creates its own demand: opium.

By 1810, the Company was selling 350 tons of opium a year to the Chinese. When the imperial government attempted to stop the trade, the British went to war. The two Opium Wars of 1839-1842 and 1856-1860 were therefore wars fought by the British Empire on behalf of corporate drug-barons.

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