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...journey toward modernity began not because the dragon gently flexed its scaly muscles but because others prodded it with a sharp stick. When China began to open up to the world 150 years ago, it did so because gunships of the British Royal Navy, working in the service of opium smugglers, forced the imperial government to accept foreign trade. As China sees its history, the country was subjected to foreign humiliation for the next century, its territory invaded and dismembered, its people raped and massacred. Along with the foreign interventions came homegrown catastrophes: rebellions, revolutions, civil wars, famine and unspeakable...
Clemens says he came across the idea for his economics thesis in a national security seminar inspired by Sept. 11 and taught by Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein. Clemens learned that 40 percent of Afghanistan’s Gross Domestic Product comes from opium production, a figure that prompted his own research into the issue...
Using data collected by the United Nations since the early 1990s, Clemens estimated the efficacy of drug control policies like crop eradication and crop replacement. This May, he won a Hoopes prize for his thesis on price fluctuations in opium from Afghanistan...
...fund the Red Army in the early 1940s, Mao grew opium, bringing in as much as $60 million a year. He stopped after overproduction drove down the price and Party officials?though not Mao?decided the practice was unseemly...
...Minimum estimated portion of Afghanistan's economic output that is derived from the production of opium 6 years Time in which Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said he hopes to eradicate opium cultivation, during his visit last week to Washington...