The Peking Connection

Some of them (U S. troops in Vietnam) are trying opium. And we are helping them.. .. Do you remember when the West imposed opium on us They fought us with opium. And we are going to fight them with their own weapons.. . . The effect this demoralization is going to have on the United States will be far greater than anyone realizes. 

Chinese Prime Minister Chou En-lai, in conversation with Egyptian President Nasser, June 1965 (1) 

Only since Henry Kissinger s 1972 trip to China has the Chinese role in the world opium trade been out of the headlines. The American, European, Japanese, and Soviet authorities had long insisted that Peking was a major primary producer and exporter of opium and its derivatives, and the British, under extreme 

The astonishing 2.5 billion financial reflow back to the PRC this year represents the fruits of Peking s 20-year-old program of 

In summary, we will demonstrate that the People s Republic of China is a 40 to 60 partner with the British oligarchy in the Far Eastern narcotics trade. 

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Gordon, as we shall detail below, is also Canada s chief contact-man for the Peking Connection (see Section 7). 

Following Kissinger s 1972 trip to Peking, American public and private literature both have played down the "Peking Connection," to the point of ridiculing existing and current evidence of People s Republic of China involvement in the trade. However, an examination of these sources does not reveal a single piece of evidence that the PRC role has stopped. 

The PRC s financial intimacy with Hong Kong is a matter of public record. (Less public is the PRC s relationship to the Bangkok connection noted above, the seven-year residency of drag financier Chin Sophonpanich in Peking.)... 

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