[dependenttypes]

> This isn't some pay-back for the crimes the East-Indian Company and the West committed against China back then.

Certainly, but with fentanyl specifically it would not surprise me if some of the Chinese smugglers thought that they do a heroic patriotic act.

[DyslexicAtheist]

the crucial difference here is the East India Company & friends systematically used opium to weaken their enemy (not just in China but also Singapore where they kept their coolies on drugs). This wasn't even kept secret in the UK but was an actual part of their strategy against China.

We don't have any facts linking the CCP or any other institutions or legally run Chinese companies to do what has been done by the West back in these days.