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> By 1837 opium accounted for 57 per cent of all of China’s imports..
> .. possibly, no single economic policy has.. been more successful.. than the British.. opium scheme... as intended, it solved the #EastIndiaCompany’s balance of payments problem: the drain of silver from England to China ended, and huge quantities of bullion began to flow in the other direction. In 1837 a Qing official estimated that the equivalent of 20 million pounds sterling was pouring out of China annually..
#ChinaTrade

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> ... China was quite exceptional. But things began to change with the #OpiumWars, the extraction of concessions from China by European countries. The system began to fragment. Local mandarins frequently became corrupt and sold off the granaries. China in the 1860s experienced three civil wars, the largest of which — the #TaipingRebellion
— is probably the bloodiest in world history.
#ChinaTrade #OpiumTrade

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> The firm has spent more than a decade building an elaborate smuggling operation to protect what's become its most valuable commodity in China... With employees on the scene year-round, the firm can optimize profits on the drug — which is still legal in the United States, but illegal in China...

#DrugRunning #ChinaTrade compared in the book to #PabloEscobar and the #AndeanTrade