• Jax@sh.itjust.works
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        5 months ago

        The parallels between the opium crisis in China and the fentanyl crisis in the U.S.

        Looks like the Chinese learned a lot from the British.

        • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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          5 months ago

          China’s contribution to the fentanyl crisis is pretty limited to not being willing to invest the resources into investigating and suppressing illicit production in China, not forming a policy of export of fentanyl with the intention of getting the recipient population addicted to acquire a reliably-demanded good to rectify trade imbalances.