There are several problems with this reflex anti-Westernism. One is that it ignores what is actually going on in the world today. For instance, almost every anti-Westernist knows that some people from the West were engaged in selling opium to the Chinese in the nineteenth century. But how many of them know that it is synthetic opioids from China that are now decimating swaths of the United States? According to the US National Center for Health Statistics, more than half a million people in America have died in America’s opioid pandemic in the last two decades. The Chinese authorities know of
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