Whatever happened to the Opium Wars?

So the Chinese government recently banned all BBC news from its country. Their government also refused to let any reporters into the Hubei province (Wuhan) to report on the Coronavirus. It is common for governments to ban media they don't like, but China is one of the first countries to actually go full authoritarian and ban parts of the media they don't like, especially foreign media. This is reminiscent of the Opium Wars which were largely started by the British government refusing to let the Chinese government ban the media they didn't like (the Opium trade) from their country. <br><br>The Opium Wars were largely over the right of the Chinese government to ban parts of the media they didn't like from their country, and ended up with the Chinese government being forced to allow foreign media into their country (the Opium trade). The problem is that the British government banned all Opium trade in the 1920s, largely because of the Opium Wars, and Opium was outlawed in China by the 1950s. <br><br>But now the Chinese government is doing the exact same thing they were doing back in the 1800s, which is banning media they don't like from their country. <br><br>Whatever happened to the Opium Wars?