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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...were smuggling relics, historical relics from Afghanistan. They were protecting the opium trade, you know, to sort of like our family could profit."
Jiang argues that the financial infrastructure built through Britain's opium trade with China did not disappear after 1949 but shifted into other markets, and he says one could legitimately argue that the global drug trade is still controlled and financed by the City of London.
"possibly imagine um another thing I'll point out is remember how Britain was getting rich China into a colony right it sold all this..."
"...were smuggling relics, historical relics from Afghanistan. They were protecting the opium trade, you know, to sort of like our family could profit."
"...empire in china right they were the ones responsible for the opium trade i mean and then after the communist revolution the tribes all..."
"...had already wiped out Afghanistan. After the Americans wiped out the opium trade in Afghanistan, the Americans go back in and what's happening. American..."
"...London was taking all this wealth that it generated through the opium trade in China and by stealing from India and then reinvesting it..."
"...no longer around, it's now the American Empire, even though the opium trade has stopped, what's important for us to understand is the game..."
"...You know, when the British came into China and started the opium trade, it was being facilitated by triads, right? These six societies…"
Jimmy Dore brings Jiang on because an earlier prediction seems to have landed: Trump is back, the United States is now at war with Iran, and a forecast once dismissed as wild suddenly looks...
Chinese students are chasing English, dollars, and Western immigration because they are already inside a British-made world game.
Jiang's through-line is that American decline will not end in a peaceful handoff to China or Russia.
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