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All this feels like a rehash of the British Empire selling Opium to China in the 18th century. Only this time it's China supplying the United States along with
by hillcrestenigma 3y ago
All this feels like a rehash of the British Empire selling Opium to China in the 18th century. Only this time it's China supplying the United States along with other addictive digital platforms such as TikTok.
- quantified 3y agoWhen you put it in historical context, I'd be surprised if they gave a crap about sending it to the English-speaking world.
- zoklet-enjoyer 3y agoI usually get downvoted when I say this
- mattacular 3y agoTo be fair, it is a pretty ridiculous comparison for anyone to make.
- zoklet-enjoyer 3y agoSending massive amounts of drugs to a rival nation is unconventional warfare
- mattacular 3y agoSure, and to the extent the US and China are actually rival nations, that's where the similarities end.
- AdieuToLogic 3y ago> All this feels like a rehash of the British Empire selling Opium to China in the 18th century. Only this time it's China supplying the United States ... Two wrongs do not make a right.
- what-no-tests 3y ago> Two wrongs do not make a right. How is that different than karma?
- gtop3 3y agoWhy is the US the inheritor of the British Empire's karma?
- pxue 3y agoUS was part of the 8-nation alliance invaded manchuria.
- jojobas 3y agoOnly some 60 years after the last Opium War.
- synergy20 3y agowhich was reacting to China's Boxers killing foreigners esp religious people like wild fire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-Nation_Alliance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-Nation_Alliance. After the invasion USA returned the "Boxer Protocol" money to create the best univ in China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tsinghua_University https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tsinghua_University Not to mention US helped China to fight Japan, and build hospitals,etc. US never took an inch territory from China when it had the power to do that. Russia on the other hand took a huge chunk territory from China and invaded and killed countless Chinese, but, China loves Russia while always hated US, I could never figure out why.
- onethought 3y agoChina doesn't hate the US. Where did you see the hate? It also doesn't love Russia... I'm confused. Also the Korean War happened. American bullets chopping up thousands of Chinese... it happened.
- dfdg 3y ago[flagged]
- dirtyid 3y agoExcept this is PRC being largely passive and watching fallout of American drug war failing. First opium war involved UK forcing, via military, Qing to stop domestic enforcement of ban on opium trade. Current Fenanyl "war" is PRC no longer actively cooperating with US on transnational drug war, which PRC did when relations were good - they scheduled fentanyl, a legal drug, on list of controlled narcotics in 2019 at US request. Now that relations are bad, there's no reason to commit state resources to enforce or support US antidrug efforts, especially for otherwise a legal medical product or precursor. Even less so when it's routed through third countries like Mexico - who to be fair asked PRC for help to get US off their backs, but why bother. Not saying PRC doesn't indirectly benefit, but at this point dead Americans is more side effect of allowing PRC triads to build network / influence in LATAM. Ultimately Americans will find some other supplier or substance to kill themselves with regardless and PRC inaction is cheap.
- DiogenesKynikos 3y agoAmericans somehow expect that they can wage economic warfare against China, trying to wipe out its entire tech sector, and then ask China to go out of its way to help the US control its own drug problems. If the US wants Chinese cooperation, the US should act reasonably towards China in other areas. This is not even to mention how crass the comparison between TikTok and the Opium Wars is.