China and Cambodia

The drug trafficking in China and Cambodia are similar, but have some striking differences. The videos we watched about Cambodia were much more centered on the enviromental aspect of the drug trade, whereas the opium in China was based much more on politics and undermining the Chinese government to gain power. I also think that in Cambodia it's much more of a simple economic advantage to harvest the oil there rather than somewhere else, but the opium in China was a much more deliberate and controlled move by the Brittish governments. China was not the only place that the Brittish could have sold opium to, but they did because it let them enormous control over a once powerful country. Now, the Cambodians are being exploited out of convenience rather than some complicated power play. They are also being used in very different ways. Cambodia is being used as a cheap way to harvest the oil for ecstacy. Most of the money is not made from selling ecstacy to Cambodians, but it's made from the middle man buys the oil cheaply and sells it in the form of ecstacy at a huge profit margin. Britan, on the other hand, made all it's money from exporting opium to China, not harvesting it in China and reselling it.