Given their track record, it is unreasonable to assume that CCP leaders will make good on their latest promises to attenuate the scourge they helped create.
Years ago, Hillary Clinton stated that America would not have a drug problem at the Mexican border or anywhere if there was no market for the drug in America.. I wonder if she was right..???
I remember H.R. McMaster in Iraq as commander of 1-4 Cav and a true patriot. Fentanyl killing more Americans every year than all our war dead from Korea+Vietnam+Iraq+Afghanistan is a true scandal and under reported shame.
This is how communism sees the world, the world that is either for or against the party. The word individual is satanic and anything that goes against perpetual revolution is an enemy that must be destroyed. But for the CCP and especially those CCP members who lived and were educated in the United States such as Xi, where we naively believed that exporting free ideas and liberty would “reform” Chinese society, it is easy for them to turn our cherished ideals against us and profit from drug addiction right under our noses. We have failed to remember the lessons of the Cold War when the KGB attempted to subvert America at home, but the critical difference now is that China understands our culture and vulnerabilities far better than the Soviets ever did, and now they are using them against us. Either we learn the lesson now, or it will be too late. And maybe also making the Chinese legend’s master work from 500 B.C. required reading in every school, you know that Xi has read it cover to cover; I doubt Trump has…..
“Supreme excellence does not consist of winning every battle, supreme excellence consists of subduing the enemy without fighting.”- Sun Tzu
The Opium War may be the root of China’s desire to enable fentanyl in America and elsewhere .
China has a long memory of its many humiliations by the west. Because Britain had a large negative trade balance with China, Britain forced China to accept opium exports from British colonies into China. China tried to fight back militarily on their own land and rivers but were overwhelmed.
While the Trump Administration can reduce the importation of fentanyl through effective intelligence, law enforcement, targeted financial actions, and improved border security, we as a society must reduce the demand for illegal drugs. ( The first Opium War, fought in 1839, due in part because of British smuggling of opium into China, against the wishes of the Chinese government. Just a random historical fact.)
Yes these facts also determine who we hire who we import from and their past records and for the new ones how sincere they are to help humanity @Eli Lake @Eric Topol pharmaceuticals are improving , we have to maintain the high standards @Alan Dershowitz I have said this personal experience purchasing spices from international stores the amount was large the price was low , than I baked pumpkin pie I had a severe allergic reaction had to go to a hospital if the medicine from a brand isn’t careful in preparation and mistakes occur it will be major. Collapse of that brand @Charlie Sykes @John Cleese @John Gruber reputation of a country company brand is tantamount in economy @Anne Applebaum
Years ago, Hillary Clinton stated that America would not have a drug problem at the Mexican border or anywhere if there was no market for the drug in America.. I wonder if she was right..???
I agree with that statement.
I remember H.R. McMaster in Iraq as commander of 1-4 Cav and a true patriot. Fentanyl killing more Americans every year than all our war dead from Korea+Vietnam+Iraq+Afghanistan is a true scandal and under reported shame.
This is how communism sees the world, the world that is either for or against the party. The word individual is satanic and anything that goes against perpetual revolution is an enemy that must be destroyed. But for the CCP and especially those CCP members who lived and were educated in the United States such as Xi, where we naively believed that exporting free ideas and liberty would “reform” Chinese society, it is easy for them to turn our cherished ideals against us and profit from drug addiction right under our noses. We have failed to remember the lessons of the Cold War when the KGB attempted to subvert America at home, but the critical difference now is that China understands our culture and vulnerabilities far better than the Soviets ever did, and now they are using them against us. Either we learn the lesson now, or it will be too late. And maybe also making the Chinese legend’s master work from 500 B.C. required reading in every school, you know that Xi has read it cover to cover; I doubt Trump has…..
“Supreme excellence does not consist of winning every battle, supreme excellence consists of subduing the enemy without fighting.”- Sun Tzu
The Opium War may be the root of China’s desire to enable fentanyl in America and elsewhere .
China has a long memory of its many humiliations by the west. Because Britain had a large negative trade balance with China, Britain forced China to accept opium exports from British colonies into China. China tried to fight back militarily on their own land and rivers but were overwhelmed.
? Turnabout is Fair Play?
While the Trump Administration can reduce the importation of fentanyl through effective intelligence, law enforcement, targeted financial actions, and improved border security, we as a society must reduce the demand for illegal drugs. ( The first Opium War, fought in 1839, due in part because of British smuggling of opium into China, against the wishes of the Chinese government. Just a random historical fact.)
The Roosevelt family fortune was built on the opium trade, during that time.
Data please.
Warren Delano Jr., Franklin D. Roosevelt's maternal grandfather, amassed his fortune through the opium trade in China. https://industrialhistoryhk.org/russell-company/
Yes these facts also determine who we hire who we import from and their past records and for the new ones how sincere they are to help humanity @Eli Lake @Eric Topol pharmaceuticals are improving , we have to maintain the high standards @Alan Dershowitz I have said this personal experience purchasing spices from international stores the amount was large the price was low , than I baked pumpkin pie I had a severe allergic reaction had to go to a hospital if the medicine from a brand isn’t careful in preparation and mistakes occur it will be major. Collapse of that brand @Charlie Sykes @John Cleese @John Gruber reputation of a country company brand is tantamount in economy @Anne Applebaum