The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won

Chapter 6. The 21^st Century Opium Wars—The World’s Emperor of “Precursor Chemicals”

	China’s large landmass, close proximity to the Golden Triangle [countries of Burma, Laos, and Thailand], and numerous coastal cities with large and modern port facilities make it an attractive transit center to drug traffickers. China’s status in drug trafficking has changed significantly since the 1980s, when the country for the first time opened its borders to trade and tourism after 40 years of relative isolation. As trade with Southeast Asian countries and the West has increased, so has the flow of illicit drugs and precursor chemicals from, into, and through China.
	--U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration[1]

Jimmy [a European drug dealer] might not know it ...