my hunch is the chicoms use the drug trade more as a destabilizing force than a source of large amounts of profit. probably a mix of both. I know there are estimated to be a few trillion in mining resources there. the entire global drug trade is maybe 1/6 of that and heroin is like the cheapest drug.
China pulls opium resources out of Afghanistan to supply the pharma manufacturers, which are all in China. Then sells the pills at a massive markup to the the US. China gets rich, the US wastes it's money protecting the poppy fields, and they destabilize the US by creating mass drug addicts that foment chaos and demand resources. China has been slowbleeding the US for a very long time.
my hunch is the chicoms use the drug trade more as a destabilizing force than a source of large amounts of profit. probably a mix of both. I know there are estimated to be a few trillion in mining resources there. the entire global drug trade is maybe 1/6 of that and heroin is like the cheapest drug.
Revenge for the opium wars
China pulls opium resources out of Afghanistan to supply the pharma manufacturers, which are all in China. Then sells the pills at a massive markup to the the US. China gets rich, the US wastes it's money protecting the poppy fields, and they destabilize the US by creating mass drug addicts that foment chaos and demand resources. China has been slowbleeding the US for a very long time.