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Dangerous Drug Gang of Chinese Triads
In the early 1800s the British East India Company’s imports of Chinese tea, rare silk and Eastern spices were of far greater value than England’s coarse exports to China.
To balance this trade deficit and open up more ports to British merchants, England smuggled Turkish
and Indian opium into China, ignoring a Chinese ban on the drug.
As tea imports into England rose, so did opium imports into China.
Eventually the Americans involved in this lucrative trade,and in the 1950s the lead of one of the largest smuggling companies was Franklin D.Roosevelt’s grandfather Warren Delano II.
Near the end of the 19th century ethnic Chinese Triads,which started in the 17th century as an underground network of patriotic citizens who opposed the conquering Manchus from Mongolia, derived their name from a Chinese concept that identifies the the three sides of an equilateral triangle with man, heaven and earth.
Their members were involved in various failed revolutions over the centuries,and most triads slowly evolved into convenient vehicles for thinly veiled thuggery.
The Triads attracted adventurers who found the upward path blocked in normal society.
By the 20th century their main resources and activity were the heroin trade, extortion, gambling and prostitution.
Members held meetings, not to resolve political problems but to assign assassination jobs to Red Poles, as their hit men were called.
From the very beginning China’s most powerful triad members, the Chiu Chao, helped facilitate the opium trade.
The Chiu Chao were a seagoing people from southern China who migrated to many Southeast Asian countries.
In time, the Chiu Chao dominated smuggling and opium traffic along the China coast.
When Westerners imagined wicked Chinese pirates smuggling gold bars, drugs and frightened maidens,and lurking in the dark recesses of the Spice Islands, they were picturing the Chiu Chao Kingpins heading major banks in the region control the international narcotics trade from the Golden
Triangle of Indochina through Bangkok.
