Against the Day ..after Inherent Vice

[Ian Livingston]

Hm. The drug trade was introduced into China by the East India
Company, and its young friends from America, in the course of
commercial trade among the cantons when those agencies were working
subversively to "open" China. The EIC had populations enslaved in
India and Burma growing the opium the Company then used to get the
Chinese dockworkers and merchants addicted. And thus began the Opium
Wars of the 1840s....

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Chick's father could not buy Mississippi because of some "Chinese
> fooforaw' ---that Chinese Consortium based in Tijuana, Mexico....
>
> Hint of start of addictive drug trade ala Chinese Fang in IV?



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trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant