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Strategic location in Central Asia, general imperial fuckery. same reason they illegally invaded and occupied Afghanistan for 20 years (although tbf I don’t know what poppy production is like in Xinjiang)
The reason they invaded Afghanistan is so they could get to Xinjiang. Afghanistan was supposed to be the launching platform for a jihadist invasion of western China, but unlike the ISIS-AlQaeda scum they created in the Middle East to take down anti-imperialist governments, the Taliban wouldn't and aren't playing along in the way they were supposed to. The real prize they are after is not some poppies or even the mineral wealth of Afghanistan, it's the dismantling of China and cutting what is left off from Europe to prevent Eurasian economic integration.
Yeah heroin trade is just a ~~little~~ lot added bonus black money for for CIA
That’s why I said “strategic position in Central Asia, general imperial fuckery”
Historically it was hotbed of opium trade, but it got rooted out in the 50's during the anti-drug campaigns in PRC. Heroin trade really does follow CIA meddling, since after Talibs rooted it out in Afghanistan it moved to Myanmar. So if US would succeed in separating Xinjiang from China undoubtedly it would become yet another drughole country.