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The host asks whether Yale-linked American networks shaped China through opium-war history and later influence.
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Opium wars
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Jiang claims the coercive apparatus built during the Opium Wars did not disappear but instead evolved into modern financial centers such as Hong Kong, Paris, New York, and London, which he characterizes as money-laundering hubs for narcotics wealth.
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Jiang claims debt finance, slavery, and drugs are the three historic high-profit systems, and he uses the Opium Wars plus HSBC as evidence that drug smuggling is structurally tied to elite finance.
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Jiang argues that the opium wars created the infrastructure of the modern global financial system and that the same structure still survives as a money-laundering operation tied to drug profits.
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Mercouris says that many famous London financial institutions still visibly bear the wealth generated by the opium wars, even if modern Britain barely remembers that history.
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Mercouris says the wealth of major London financial institutions still carries the imprint of the opium wars, even if modern Britain scarcely remembers that origin.
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Jiang argues that the financial infrastructure created by the opium wars now underpins the entire global drug trade, including fentanyl.
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"...this. But from what I've looked into, it seems like the opium wars were sort of kicked off by people who were very much..."
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"And from there, I wonder, you know, what is America's influence and manipulation over what we now think of as China, because it's a..."
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"...last thing is drugs, narcotics smuggling. So you look at the Opium Wars in which basically Britain turned China into a slave state. That..."
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"you're really interested in neutering uh russia and china then iran makes a lot more sense so from a political perspective i don't i..."
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"...drugs drug smuggling and so you know when britain uh launched opium wars it created this massive international network um of drug smuggling that..."
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"...So listen, going back to Chinese history, Britain did fight the opium wars in order to enforce drugs onto China. And it was actually..."
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"...here since the sixties. The symbols of wealth created from the opium wars are everywhere. Many of the"
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"...you might see all the symbols of wealth created from the opium wars. I hope you'll find the symbols in London that are so..."
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"...lot of it does come from that, from what happened, the opium wars and the trade in opium in China, which of course people..."
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"the infrastructure financial infrastructure you had for the opium Wars is now is now underpinning all global drug trade including fentanyl so there are..."
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"...technology. I think China remembers the... Good. Okay. China remembers the Opium Wars far better than the rest of the world does. They know..."
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