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The New Opium War: Fentanyl, China and the Case for Criminal Accountability

Aug 26, 2026
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By Garry Clement

OTTAWA — More than a century and a half ago, China learned a brutal lesson about the strategic power of narcotics.

During the nineteenth-century Opium Wars, British commercial interest…

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