Why Netflix will never make a Narcos Asia based on Khun Sa drug lord of the Golden Triangle

Big B · Post by **Big B** » Tue Jan 04, 2022 4:21 pm

Why Netflix will never make a Narcos Asia based on Khun Sa drug lord of the Golden Triangle

CPC would never allow it. And it would piss the Thai military off big time!

Why do you think Thai & Hong Kong Triad gangster films made in the 1980s and 1990s never had plot lines including large scale transnational organised crime syndicates trafficking drugs out of Hong Kong?

because even though Hong Kong was run by the British at the time no one producing Hong Kong films wanted to get on the wrong side of the mainland PRC Communist Party of China for fear of reprisals when the 1997 hand over happened.

Think about it the reality at the time and still is was the Southern region of China was a major transit route for drugs smuggled out of Burma over land through Canton onto Hong Kong island to be shipped all over the region and to the Western markets as well.

The official stance of the CPC is corruption is non-existent in China thus it is a myth Chinese officials tolerate or turn a blind-eye to widespread drug trafficking through China and the illegal drug trade is not as prolific as the Western media reports so out of respect neither Hong Kong Cantonese movie makers or American producers like Netflix would never dream of making film or TV content like Narcos Asia depicting transnational international drug trafficking set in the Far east region.

Asia is a place where things work in mysterious ways. Some say in Thailand, Burma, China etc the left hand of the ruling elite doesn't know the right hand does. Hence why the DEA never got close to arresting Khun Sa.

mannanman · Post by **mannanman** » Tue Jan 04, 2022 4:49 pm

It’s the British who started the whole thing off which is partly why they wanted the HK shipping route. Private companies were in charge of the region not the UK government, although they benefited from it hugely.

Maybe they still are involved.

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Tue Jan 04, 2022 4:50 pm

There are dozens of Hong Kong movies about triads and drugs.
https://www.google.com/search?q=hong+ko ... s%20movies

nemo · Post by **nemo** » Tue Jan 04, 2022 4:52 pm

Khun Sa worked with CIA nd KMT, not the commies.

Thailand’s history with the drug trade begins – as did most things after World War II – with the CIA. “The Golden Triangle would not exist were it not for this alliance between the CIA and the Kuomintang (KMT),” Winn reveals.

When the Communists won the Chinese Civil War in 1949, most KMT (or Nationalists) soldiers followed Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan. However, some KMT units on China’s southern border instead fled further south, to Myanmar and northern Thailand. These KMT exiles were given what Winn calls “seed capital” by the CIA, in the form of “guns, bullets, rice and radios.” From there they were able to take over the local opium trade in the poppy-abundant region.

By 1963, KMT army unit leader Chang Chi-fu changed his name to Khun Sa (“Lord of Prosperity”), and transformed his unit into a private army. Recognizing that most of the profit in the drug trade lies not in transportation but production, Khun Sa moved his army unit up the supply chain by recruiting chemists from the PRC to set up laboratories in the remote mountainous villages of Myanmar, mostly in Wa or Shan state. They moved beyond opium production to the production of pure heroin.

After a seven-year stint in a Burmese jail following an altercation with other KMT officers in 1967, Khun Sa moved to Thailand, where he established his base in Ban Hin Taek, Chiang Rai. Meanwhile, the CIA continued to support Khun Sa and promoted the Thai-KMT partnership to, in the words of historian Alfred McCoy, “provide a secure rear area for the KMT,” despite dwindling prospects of the KMT successfully retaking mainland China by force.

With help from the CIA and his private Shan-based army of 20,000 men, Khun Sa won control over the Golden Triangle. By 1980, the US Drug Enforcement Agency estimated that 70% of heroin consumed in the US came from Khun Sa’s organization. Accordingly, 70% of America’s heroin was being trafficked via Thailand, which had become a major entrepot for the drug trade with its advanced infrastructure for international trade.

https://www.thaienquirer.com/21196/how- ... ics-trade/

willyhilly · Post by **willyhilly** » Tue Jan 04, 2022 5:12 pm

A mate sent me the link the other day when Khun Sa gave the DEA the message. They had been paying the Thais to crack down. In 1980 the wife and kids of the DEA chief in Chiang Mai were kidnapped. Rescued by the Thais but then the rogue copper shot them all dead.
They evacuated all the DEA staff and probably never bothered Khun Sa again.

nerdlinger · Post by **nerdlinger** » Tue Jan 04, 2022 7:41 pm

Big B wrote: ↑Tue Jan 04, 2022 4:21 pm
The official stance of the CPC is corruption is non-existent in China thus it is a myth Chinese officials tolerate or turn a blind-eye to widespread drug trafficking through China

Can you provide a source for this claim as it sounds suspiciously like horseshit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always_on_the_Road

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-co ... Xi_Jinping

Spigzy · Post by **Spigzy** » Tue Jan 04, 2022 8:13 pm

mannanman wrote: ↑Tue Jan 04, 2022 4:49 pm It’s the British who started the whole thing off which is partly why they wanted the HK shipping route. Private companies were in charge of the region not the UK government, although they benefited from it hugely.

Maybe they still are involved.

I'm sorry but this is not quite correct. I get what you're implying, the East India Company in particular was of course instrumental in making trade routes & money from opium to offset the need for silver in exchange for Chinese goods like tea, porcelain, etc (the Chinese strangely didn't want any British produced goods like beer, or Jacob Rees Mogg), but "started it" is a stretch. That honour goes to Arabian merchants trailblazing through Afghanistan through India to China - Opium was used in the region for well over a thousand, yes thousand, years before the British arrived. The difference is the Brits back then were conniving sods able to understand the opportunity staring them in the face as the Empire expanded, and how it could be used destructively in the case of China to cede HK, etc.

As with everything from that bygone era, better the Rosbifs than the Frogs - you wouldn't have Hong Kong, Malaysia or Singapore, but two more Cambodias..#ShootsSelfInFoot

Big B · Post by **Big B** » Fri Jan 07, 2022 4:53 pm

nerdlinger wrote: ↑Tue Jan 04, 2022 7:41 pm
Big B wrote: ↑Tue Jan 04, 2022 4:21 pm
The official stance of the CPC is corruption is non-existent in China thus it is a myth Chinese officials tolerate or turn a blind-eye to widespread drug trafficking through China
Can you provide a source for this claim as it sounds suspiciously like horseshit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always_on_the_Road

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-co ... Xi_Jinping

I've known family members of mine who have paid bribes in China to get out of trouble.

What I meant was in PRC what the press reports, what the CCP say at official press releases and what really goes on is two different things.

It's like the CCP in Beijing coming out and saying "we do not tolerate prostitution, we do not tolerate illegal gambling" when every city in China has a red light district and underground gambling dens

Yobbo · Post by **Yobbo** » Fri Jan 07, 2022 5:50 pm

Big B wrote: ↑Fri Jan 07, 2022 4:53 pm
nerdlinger wrote: ↑Tue Jan 04, 2022 7:41 pm
Big B wrote: ↑Tue Jan 04, 2022 4:21 pm
The official stance of the CPC is corruption is non-existent in China thus it is a myth Chinese officials tolerate or turn a blind-eye to widespread drug trafficking through China
Can you provide a source for this claim as it sounds suspiciously like horseshit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always_on_the_Road

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-co ... Xi_Jinping
I've known family members of mine who have paid bribes in China to get out of trouble.

What I meant was in PRC what the press reports, what the CCP say at official press releases and what really goes on is two different things.

It's like the CCP in Beijing coming out and saying "we do not tolerate prostitution, we do not tolerate illegal gambling" when every city in China has a red light district and underground gambling dens

I like Chinese prostitutes!
There is no social divide in sharing one's wealth by capitalistic means

nerdlinger · Post by **nerdlinger** » Fri Jan 07, 2022 6:27 pm

Big B wrote: ↑Fri Jan 07, 2022 4:53 pm It's like the CCP in Beijing coming out and saying "we do not tolerate prostitution, we do not tolerate illegal gambling" when every city in China has a red light district and underground gambling dens

That’s literally every government of every country. You’re tying yourself up in knots here.

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