My guess is the tallybong made a deal with the cia not the CCP. I may be wrong but if we don’t see any CCP chinks wandering around the poppy fields I was right.
There is recent news of China moving in for the kill, offering big big $$$ to Taliban and/or whoever is at the top of the dung heap. The CCP wants those rare earth minerals or metals or whatever they are and the gems don’t hurt either. China makes so much $$ making fentanyl and meth ingredients they don’t need to mess around with poppy farms. Plus they want a foothold there.
I'm not so sure that the C-eye-A and CCP aren't on the same team these days.