That's true. Red China's already proven you can win a war on drugs: in the span of a decade (the '50s) they resolved China's longstanding opium problem by simply forcing all known users (about ten million people) into rehab, shooting anyone who exited rehab & relapsed later, shooting all dealers on sight, burning the poppies and forcing their replacement with other crops, and indefinitely jailing/shooting anyone who complained about any or all of the above. The Golden Triangle (Burma, Laos, Thailand) didn't become a leader in global opium production until all of China's drug lords, producers & traders had to haul ass down there after the Chinese Civil War.
It was a much more brutal and thorough process than say, what Duterte had been doing in the Philippines, but it worked. Of course, we know the Chinese are pumping drugs into other people's countries now, but God help you if you so much as try to take it within their borders - one of the bigger and more understated historical ironies of the present day, I believe.
But of course, the methods the Chicoms used to 'win' their war on opium (and which are still in use elsewhere in Asia, Indonesia for example carried out the high-profile executions of a bunch of Australian drug smugglers in 2015, and the majority of executions in Singapore this past decade were for drug-related offenses as well; lethally anti-drug attitudes are hardly uncommon throughout East & Southeast Asia in general) are unconscionable for a modern liberal democracy with all its social permissiveness, so yeah.
That's true. Red China's already proven you can win a war on drugs: in the span of a decade (the '50s) they resolved China's longstanding opium problem by simply forcing all known users (about ten million people) into rehab, shooting anyone who exited rehab & relapsed later, shooting all dealers on sight, burning the poppies and forcing their replacement with other crops, and indefinitely jailing/shooting anyone who complained about any or all of the above. The Golden Triangle (Burma, Laos, Thailand) didn't become a leader in global opium production until all of China's drug lords, producers & traders had to haul ass down there after the Chinese Civil War.
It was a much more brutal and thorough process than say, what Duterte had been doing in the Philippines, but it worked. Of course, we know the Chinese are pumping drugs into other people's countries now, but God help you if you so much as try to take it within their borders - one of the bigger and more understated historical ironies of the present day, I believe.
But of course, the methods the Chicoms used to 'win' their war on opium (and which are still in use elsewhere in Asia, Indonesia for example carried out the high-profile executions of a bunch of Australian drug smugglers in 2015, and the majority of executions in Singapore this past decade were for drug-related offenses as well; lethally anti-drug attitudes are hardly uncommon throughout East & Southeast Asia in general) are unconscionable for a modern liberal democracy with all its social permissiveness, so yeah.