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TLDR: “Li and his fellow Chinese money launderers married market forces: drug lords wanting to get rid of dollars and a Chinese elite desperate to acquire dolla
by O__________O 4y ago
TLDR: “Li and his fellow Chinese money launderers married market forces: drug lords wanting to get rid of dollars and a Chinese elite desperate to acquire dollars. The new model blew away the competition.”
Comment: Nation states have been waging asymmetric warfare for long time, this is not new. China has become a major player in the illegal drug trade by supplying money laundering and chemicals [1]. Oldest modern reference I am aware of on the topic as it relates to China is a book on military strategy written in 1999 by two colonels in the People's Liberation Army titled Unrestricted Warfare.[2]
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[1] https://google.com/search?q=china+fentanyl https://google.com/search?q=china+fentanyl
[2] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrestricted_Warfare https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrestricted_Warfare
- imwillofficial 4y agoThis is a fantastic and vastly underrated book
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- bluepizza 4y agoI really do wonder where China might even have got this idea from.
- layman51 4y agoAre you referring to the Opium Wars?
- joe_the_user 4y agoYes, "The First Opium War (Chinese: 第一次鴉片戰爭; pinyin: Dìyīcì Yāpiàn Zhànzhēng), also known as the Opium War or the Anglo-Sino War was a series of military engagements fought between Britain and the Qing dynasty between 1839 and 1842, during the Century of humiliation. The immediate issue was the Chinese seizure of private opium stocks at Canton to stop the banned opium trade, and threatening the death penalty for future offenders. The British government insisted on the principles of free trade and equal diplomatic recognition among nations, and backed the merchants' demands."[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_war
- GauntletWizard 4y agoI was going to guess they were thinking of the CIA's "Golden Triangle", which operated similarly and makes a narratively nice "turnabout is fair play" argument[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking#Golden_Triangle_(Southeast_Asia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_traffi...
- joe_the_user 4y agoAs the OP says, every state has been doing this stuff since forever. The US has had maintain a certain "better than that" image at times but states have managed their images for a long time too.
- dwringer 4y agoSun Tzu?
- chrischen 4y agoIsn’t the Chinese government trying to curtail capital outflow?
- Scoundreller 4y agoNo, their entire economy revolves around exporting value-added goods. They restrict currency movements, but that doesn’t work when you can ship out goods and deposit payments overseas. Drugs is one way to do this, but so is virtually any other good.
- Aunche 4y agoThis doesn't seem to be the case here as most of the "value add" is occurring in the US. Bitcoin is another Chinese export that enable capital outflow, but China is taking a lot measures to crack down on it. I'm sure the Bitcoin miners that are still allowed to operate have connections in the CCP, but that doesn't mean the party itself is particularly happy about mining.
- Scoundreller 4y agoFor drugs yes, but China is a machine that takes raw materials and manufactures them into finished goods. Just look for the "Made in ______" label on so many goods. Sure there's lots of margins on the marketing side that's captured and retained wealthy countries, but China is capturing some percentage of so many finished products.
- chrischen 4y agoBut that’s not capital outflow. That’s exporting useless cheap goods for an inflow of capital (USD).
- SgtBastard 4y agoAll of those exported goods are expected to be sold at a markup in other countries, in that countries currency.
- okasaki 4y ago
- bergenty 4y agoWho are the Jews in this version?