this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2024
46 points (100.0% liked)
askchapo
22652 readers
310 users here now
Ask Hexbear is the place to ask and answer ~~thought-provoking~~ questions.
Rules:
-
Posts must ask a question.
-
If the question asked is serious, answer seriously.
-
Questions where you want to learn more about socialism are allowed, but questions in bad faith are not.
-
Try [email protected] if you're having questions about regarding moderation, site policy, the site itself, development, volunteering or the mod team.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Not everything is a conspiracy. China has every reason to want it's primary adversary's populace addicted and dying of overdoses.
Dude, the CPC literally offered to directly assist the USA in stopping the fentanyl trade, but the imperialists couldn't play nice long enough to get anything done before pissing them off.
They can say that, but why would they want to actually stop it? It is good for them and bad for the empire, I'm surprised people aren't cheering it on.
Because it's wrong and bad, regardless of who would be target by this? Lmao wtf is this take?
It’s the same take as any other intelligence agency or military strategist would have. I don’t believe the Chinese intelligence is trafficking drugs like the CIA. In fact, western media have reported that China’s rich businessmen have been feeling threatened by China’s crackdown on businesses and wealth, so they work with cartels to move their money around to evade Chinese laws.
I just think China is in no rush to crack down on drug manufacturers as long as the bulk of it isn’t affecting chinese society. But they will come after you if your wealth empowers China’s enemies.
You’re aware that you’re the one pushing a conspiracy theory over the simpler explanation of the media operating along its normal and well known biases?
“Da joos are doing white genocide and I support that/j”
Idk, China seems pretty open to being nice to ideological enemies, mostly hurting the US through the obvious consequences of the empire’s own actions.
I don’t think they care, which is different from actively wanting Americans to overdose on the streets. It provides them with a ton of propaganda (internally and abroad), and it demoralizes the enemy. They’ve offered to cooperate to combat the drugs, but the US either refuses or demands that China jump through a bunch of hoops while the US does nothing (like how they demand Mexico combat cartels, reduce poverty and migration, while also taking in other migrants and producing food for the US, while the US just needs to shoot people at the border), or they simply demonize the Chinese instead of working together. Even the DEA has praised China
If your neighbor is crazy, it’s best to just leave him alone than try to fix the problem on your own or mend relations with him.
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/17/916890880/we-are-shipping-to-the-u-s-china-s-fentanyl-sellers-find-new-routes-to-drug-user
Pretty much all western media report that it’s companies that are skirting chinese laws and inspections rather than the laws and inspections being lax - and of course local corruption. The only people who believe that the government and party are actively trafficking drugs as part of their agenda are cranks
This is ridiculous lmao