The same China where manufacturers had been implicated in supplying Fentanyl to the illicit US opiate market causing widespread overdoses and death? Nobody is innocent when power corrupts.
Getting your opposition stoned on cheap drugs is not unique to the opium wars, and China shipping fentanyl to US is certainly a case of history rhyming:
> not everyone struck it rich trading in opium. It was a competitive, highly volatile market. But those who worked for Perkins and a few other firms became the city's elite — otherwise known as Boston Brahmins. The Cabots, Cushings, Welds, Delanos (the grandfather of Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Forbes all built fortunes on opium.
> "Opium was really a way that America was able to transfer China’s economic power to America’s industrial revolution."
jazzyjackson|6 years ago
> not everyone struck it rich trading in opium. It was a competitive, highly volatile market. But those who worked for Perkins and a few other firms became the city's elite — otherwise known as Boston Brahmins. The Cabots, Cushings, Welds, Delanos (the grandfather of Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Forbes all built fortunes on opium.
> "Opium was really a way that America was able to transfer China’s economic power to America’s industrial revolution."
From an eye opening article on the history of Boston: https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2017/07/31/opium-boston-hi...
unknown|6 years ago
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