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do you think some pay back from China for the opium wars is part of the dynamic?

• ttul 6y ago
  That’s going back a ways...
  • edogg 6y ago
    To the century of humiliation starting in 1839 with the opium war [1]. I’m told saving face is very important in Chinese culture. I could see it being quite easy for people in China whose job it might be to prevent the export of fentanyl or fentanyl precursors to only do the minimum to keep up appearances. not nearly as blatant as the British but were but we aren’t getting any help from China in preventing the deadly drugs from being shipped here. It would be better if they would just send actual heroin instead of having casual mdma and cocaine users dying from fentanyl. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation
• pjc50 6y ago
  The opiates crisis was driven and enabled by US pharma marketing practices. Internationally-mailed fentanyl was only a small part of the problem.
  • monoideism 6y ago
    US opiate deaths are now dominated by fentanyl and related synthetic analogues: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p0318-data-show-changes-overdose-deaths.html https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p0318-data-show-chan...