| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | War on Drugs
CHINA. China’s outdated war on drugs
CHINA. China’s outdated war on drugs
Every year, tens of thousands of people worldwide die from opioid-related overdoses, many of which are linked to the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl. Journalists and politicians have called on China, the primary source of fentanyl, to do more to stamp out production and interdict shipments of the drug. These calls ignore China’s own domestic war on drugs, one rooted in the memory of the country’s humiliation at the hands of imperial Britain in the 1839–42 Opium War. (EAST ASIA FORUM, Australien, 31.03.2018)
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2018/03/31/chinas-outdated-war-on-drugs/