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Wrought said:
Interesting article about a very legitimate problem in Southeast Asia, but it fails by trying too hard to push anti-China narratives. It is doubtless correct to say that Chinese manufacturers are—directly or indirectly—supplying feedstock to drug cartels. But anyone who has ever worked in a university lab has seen great big containers of toluene, acetone, sodium hydroxide, and sundry ingredients in the supply closet. They are extremely basic chemical inputs with thousands of perfectly legal use cases. The article even acknowledges it indirectly.



It's simply a small and illicit piece of a large and normal industry.



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This is funny because the US is the reason why these drug cartels even exist
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Wrought said:
Interesting article about a very legitimate problem in Southeast Asia, but it fails by trying too hard to push anti-China narratives. It is doubtless correct to say that Chinese manufacturers are—directly or indirectly—supplying feedstock to drug cartels. But anyone who has ever worked in a university lab has seen great big containers of toluene, acetone, sodium hydroxide, and sundry ingredients in the supply closet. They are extremely basic chemical inputs with thousands of perfectly legal use cases. The article even acknowledges it indirectly.



It's simply a small and illicit piece of a large and normal industry.



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Every lab got literally m3 of any of those chemicals. I used to go through those by the liter everyday just to train new engineers on lab procedures. The amount needed to make meth is miniscule compared to the stuff just dumped for training.
 
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Thailand will extradite the notorious kingpin She Zhijiang to China after a protracted legal dispute. He was involved in a number of major criminal enterprises across SEA.

BANGKOK: A Thai court of appeal has upheld an extradition order against a Chinese gambling kingpin after more than three years of legal battles, Thailand's state prosecutor said in a statement on Monday (Nov 10). She Zhijiang, 43, a Chinese national who also holds a Cambodian passport, was arrested by Thai police in August 2022 on an international warrant and Interpol red notice requested by Beijing, who accused him of running illegal online gambling operations.

A Thai criminal court ordered his extradition to China in May 2024, but his legal team appealed the decision, arguing that the order breached the law. Last month, the Thai Constitutional Court ruled that the extradition order was lawful.
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