Question

What are the reasons behind transshipments? Address them from the perspective of U.S. law-enforcement officers and from the perspectives of Chinese manufacturers.

Answer 1

Some police analysts argue that the reason Xinjiang became a major destination for transshipment and sales is that Afghan and Pakistan-based drug rings began aggressively pursuing new export markets and routes for a large portion of these drugs. As a result, police analysts assert that their counter-narcotics efforts in China’s west have come under “enormous pressure”from these new sources. These analysts forecast that the rising trend of smuggling Golden Crescent narcotics into western China will continue “for a fairly long time to come.”

Chinese law enforcement specialists devote little attention to other factors that might have contributed to the rapid increase in Afghan drug exports and the emergence of western China as a prominent shipping route. Some analysts briefly note the impact that Afghanistan’s long period of war, domestic warlordism, and political and economic collapse had on encouraging drug production.

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