Thread: The View, from China

Originally Posted by pickel

I don't deny Pharmas role in creating the opiate crisis, but when it was realized and curtailed China swooped in like the greedy locusts they are to pick up the slack. They are the number one producer of the precursors, yet will not ban them. Wonder why that is? It ain't free enterprise.

China has a long memory. They look back at the Opium Wars, at the profits Europeans made by selling opiates to the Chinese, and now they shrug their shoulders. This is based on my personal experience, I have met middle class people in Shanghai who told me as much. And not very politely. They are not bad people, they are simply reflecting what they are told.
Of course this is not the right way to behave but on the list of problems for China's leadership I'd say an opiod crisis overseas is some way off the top of their priorities.

If it becomes a domestic issue, which we wouldn't hear much about, then maybe things would look different.

Originally Posted by Shutree

Of course this is not the right way to behave but on the list of problems for China's leadership I'd say an opiod crisis overseas is some way off the top of their priorities.

All the chinky bastards are interested in is cash, and they really don't give a shit what they have to do to get it.