You can support the war on drugs in China and not in the US if you want, but calling my position chauvinist is absurd, especially in view of the harms that enforcement of the drug war has caused in non- western countries, from cartels in Mexico to people being gunned down in the street in the Philippines

Again, you are assuming that two countries still under the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie have the same exact response to drugs being illegal as a country run by communists.

That’s to say nothing of the horrors inflicted on all of those countries by the imperial core and CIA, which have a vested interest in destabilizing both of those countries through… you guessed it… drugs :fidel-wut:

the fact remains that material conditions in countries who are essentially still capitalist are not particularly different from the west

the imperialism and socialism understander has logged on. this sentence makes the rest of the talking points even more impossible to take seriously

that there are large numbers of drug users in these countries and that will continue for the foreseeable future, and they are being harmed by the war on drugs in the same way that people are harmed in the west

Saying China has “a war on drugs” and comparing it to the United States is ignorant. It is based in chauvinism. It is incorrect and boring.

Frankly, it’s also insulting to compare the horrors of the American backed Duterte regime to China as well. Especially since he is engaged in a decades long struggle against communist groups in that country