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		dixie_land on Aug 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TikTok’s Poison Pill the Chinese actually call it "spiritual opium". the CCP probably see it as some sort of poetic revenge for the real opium trade and the ensuing Sino-British war that they see as the start of the "century of humiliation"

philwelch on Aug 3, 2022 [–]

They also manufacture most of the precursors for fentanyl, so it's not like the poetic revenge stops at TikTok.

ROTMetro on Aug 3, 2022 | [–]

Precurses? They make and market new analogs to pass importation on Alibaba (though they don't pass the Analog act so don't get any ideas it's legal).

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