Exclusive: Curtis Ellis explains what China is shipping to U.S. besides goods

UNITED NATIONS – Drug overdoses are sweeping the heartland, claiming lives in small towns and cities across America.

Previous drug epidemics were largely confined to inner city ghettos. But this latest plague is taking its heaviest toll in working-class communities that have been drained of jobs by globalist so-called “free trade” policies.

Washington policymakers talk about an opioid epidemic. But it would be more properly termed the new Opium War.

A little history is in order here.

In the 19th century, China racked up a massive trade surplus with the West. Europeans had an insatiable appetite for China’s silk, porcelain and tea. At the same time, China severely restricted imports of foreign-made goods. (Sound familiar?) The trade imbalance greatly benefited the Middle Kingdom.

Britain drained its gold reserves to finance a persistent and growing trade deficit with China. Try as they may, London’s foreign ministers were unable to pry open the China market through diplomatic means.

Then the British East India Company, the steam-punk version of today’s crony capitalist multinational corporation, came up with a brilliant solution.

It would grow opium in India and sell it in China, payment due in bullion. Most everyone was happy with the set up: Local Chinese officials collected bribes from the British suppliers on one side and collected taxes from local drug peddlers and users on the other side.

The British crown saw another enormous benefit aside from money flowing into the treasury: The narcotics trade was sowing social chaos and sapping China’s strength as well as its treasure.

Beijing understood this well and moved to stop the scourge. In a letter to Queen Victoria, the emperor’s drug czar admitted, “If the traffic in opium were not stopped, a few decades from now we shall not only be without soldiers to resist the enemy, but also in want of silver to provide an army.”

China seized the British opium stockpiled in border warehouses. Then it erected a virtual border wall in the form of a naval blockade against British ships to stop the flow of drugs.

History records the British effort to break the blockade and open China to its imports as the Opium Wars.

So what does this have to do with us now?

Today, China is enjoying a massive trade surplus with the United States. It accumulates this through one-way trade: selling vast quantities of manufactured goods to the U.S. while blocking imports of goods from America.

Thanks to open border policies championed by the Clintons, American firms have abandoned their motherland, set up shop in China and export to America that which they used to make in America. We end up sending China our jobs.

Working-class Americans, stripped of their livelihoods and bereft of hope, are turning to drugs that are also pouring across the open border.

The current drug of choice is fentanyl, a cheap synthetic heroin hundreds of times stronger than the real thing. Between late 2013 and late 2014 alone, there were over 700 overdose deaths related to fentanyl in the United States, and that number is likely to be vastly underestimated.

Where is this drug coming from?

The Drug Enforcement Agency reports the drug ravaging America originates in China. The DEA says, “The current fentanyl crisis is fueled by China-sourced fentanyls.” Even when it is Mexican drug cartels pushing this junk, they are getting it from China.

This is the final, cruel twist of fate.

The people who have been devastated by factories moving to China are now being killed by poison coming from China.

We send them our jobs, they send us drugs.

Call it the New Opium War.

Donald Trump vows we will have a border again. We will stop the free flow of people, goods and wealth that is bleeding our nation of our industrial might, our economic strength and literally killing our people.

We will Make America Great Again.

http://mobile.wnd.com/2016/09/the-new-opium-war/

000000000000000000000000000000