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China continues to subsidize deadly fentanyl exports
- oldnetguy 2y agoWe know this and yet we don't consider it a national security issue
- moose_man 2y agoThe Chinese government warns companies about US investigations and helps them avoid US enforcement.
- simonblack 2y agoMerely Karma. Yes it was nearly two centuries in coming, but it's karma just the same. Some American merchants entered the trade by smuggling opium from Turkey into China, including Warren Delano Jr., the grandfather of twentieth-century American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Francis Blackwell Forbes; in American historiography this is sometimes referred to as the Old China Trade.[9] By 1833, the Chinese opium trade soared to 30,000 chests.[7] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars