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| | Historical Review of Opium/Heroin Production |
 | | Since bilateral operations are, by their very nature, focused on a single producing country, market dynamics will mean that, over the long term, a successful eradication will stimulate illicit price and production elsewhere, leading to a net global increase in opium supply. |
 | | With the rise of the China opium trade in late 18th century and the emergence of opium as a global commodity in the late 19th century, the Asian opium zone expanded to its maximum area--extending from the Balkans, across India, through southern China, to Manchuria. |
 | | Restrained by the colonial lobby, this cautious diplomacy produced international treaties that gradually restricted the right of governments to traffic in narcotics, producing an 82 percent decline in world opium supply--from 42,000 tons in 1906 to 16,000 tons in 1934. |
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