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To: dfwgator
Remember those things called The Opium Dens, and The Opium Wars? China does.

And Chinese bureaucrats of the day didn't do anything about it either, until it was too late.

46 posted on 09/29/2021 6:57:13 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88; dfwgator

> Chinese bureaucrats of the day didn’t do anything about it either, until it was too late. <

Once the danger of opium addiction was realized, the Chinese imperial government tried to stop the flow. And that (among other things) lead to the Opium Wars. China suffered humiliating defeats in those wars. As dfwgator noted, the Chinese have not forgotten that.

They’ve got a score to settle with the West. And they’ve got a score to settle with Japan.


53 posted on 09/29/2021 7:10:53 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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