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China's staunch anti-drug stance is heavily influenced by its historical century of humiliation. Critics of China's anti-drug policies believe that China's anti-drug campaigns use fear as a tactic to manufacture consent for China's war on drugs, preventing nuanced understanding about the reasons that people use drugs, and dehumanising drug users.
China also participates in a drug control program with Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, and the United States. This program is designed to enhance information sharing and coordination of drug law enforcement activities by countries in and around the Central Asian Region.
China's top prosecutor urged law enforcement officials across the country on Friday to focus efforts on combating drug trafficking, capping a week in which Beijing and Washington announced a rare ...
Despite the anti-opium campaigns in the 1950s, the issue of narcotics consumption resurfaced in the 1980s as a result of government reform. [61] The 1990s saw a renewed push against drug consumption in China, with annual drug trials and public events being held around June 26, the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. [62]
In June, China's top prosecutor urged its law enforcement officials to focus on combating drug trafficking, as Beijing and Washington unveiled a rare joint investigation into drugs.
The missionary organizations were outraged over the Royal Commission on Opium's conclusions and set up the Anti-Opium League in China; the league gathered data from every Western-trained medical doctor in China and published Opinions of Over 100 Physicians on the Use of Opium in China. This was the first anti-drug campaign to be based on ...
Columbia law professor David Pozen recalls the controversy provoked by early anti-drug laws and the hope inspired by subsequent legal assaults on prohibition.
Companies began to export opium from India to China, selling the drug to raise the money to buy shipments of tea. This was against Chinese law and angered China's authorities. In 1839, war broke out between Britain and China over the opium trade. Britain defeated China and under the terms of the Treaty of Nanking in 1842, Hong Kong became a ...