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Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the 32nd President of the United States and is well-known in the United States and China. In the United States, he is called FDR. In China, he was called "Roosevelt Junior" to distinguish him from his uncle, Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States.

In 1932, in the midst of a severe financial crisis, Roosevelt was elected President of the United States. His "New Deal" helped the United States get out of the worst economic crisis of the 20th century. He is the only person in American history to win four presidential elections, and he is also the wartime president of the United States during World War II.

In November 1943, the dawn of victory in World War II emerged. Leader of the Chinese National Party Chiang Kai-shek flew to Cairo and reached the Cairo Declaration with American President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill. The most important part for China is that Japan must return Manchuria and Taiwan to China.

During his life, Roosevelt only did some government work and earned a meager income, but he owned a mansion in New York, and his children went to very good private schools.Why is this?

This is because of the "Delano" (D in FDR) in his name, which is his mother's surname and a very wealthy family in New York.

Roosevelt's grandfather, Warren Delano, was one of the largest merchants engaged in the opium trade with China after the Opium War in 1840. During the Opium War, Britain used warships and guns to pry open the door of China, and “legally” exported a steady stream of opium to China, eventually making China the “sick man of East Asia” in the eyes of Westerners.

At that time, Britain, through the East India Company, grew opium in India and exported it to China, and then used the silver in exchange to buy Chinese tea, silk and porcelain, which were sold to Britain. This trilateral trade has brought huge wealth to many businessmen. Britain also granted franchise rights to China's opium trade to merchants from other countries, including Roosevelt's grandfather Warren Delano.

Warren Delano was not unique. American historians found that the huge wealth brought about by the opium trade supported the construction of the first industrialized city in Massachusetts. Even the entire east coast of the United States has traces of wealth brought about by the opium trade, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, places that are looked up to by countless Chinese as the world’s top universities. They have all benefited from the opium trade with China. In addition, the opium trade funded the construction of the first five railroads in the United States.

Today, there are still some Chinese people who are still obsessed with the so-called "favors" to China in American history. But few of them know the history of American merchants grabbing huge wealth from China because of the opium trade. They don't even know how many Chinese people have lost their health, lost their homes and died because of opium wealth in the glamorous cities on the east coast of the United States.

It can be said that in the more than 100 years when the Chinese nation was at its weakest, the United States, as a late-comer, has never been absent from plundering and oppressing China. This is an iron fact.

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