{"id":19156,"date":"2021-08-24T22:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T22:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=19156"},"modified":"2021-08-24T22:00:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T22:00:23","slug":"china-the-taliban-and-the-threats-from-the-illegal-drug-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=19156","title":{"rendered":"China, the Taliban and the threats from the illegal drug trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina could offer farmers in Afghanistan help with alternative crops to opium poppies to try to counter threats to China posed by the Central Asian nation\u2019s continued dependence on the illegal drug trade, Chinese analysts suggested.Trafficking in poppy-based drugs and methamphetamine remains the Taliban\u2019s largest single source of income, according to various estimates, and is likely to remain so with the prospect of international sanctions on the militant group.In the past, one of the main\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3146233\/china-taliban-and-threats-illegal-drug-trade?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina could offer farmers in Afghanistan help with alternative crops to opium poppies to try to counter threats to China posed by the Central&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19156"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}