Helmand is strategic, lying along the Pakistan border, where the illicit opium trade flourishes and fighters and weapons move easily across the porous border.

赫尔曼德省跟巴基斯坦接壤，具有战略意义，非法的鸦片贸易非常兴旺，武装人员和武器轻而易举地可以通过漏洞百出的边界。

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Recognizing the dual nature of opium in particular their medicinal value and the special nature of addiction will help us understand why the opium trade has enabled China to fall into decay.

认识鸦片的双重属性，特别是因其药用价值和使人上瘾的特殊性，将有助于我们理解鸦片贸易曾使中国近代走向衰弱的原因。

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The opium question became one of the important questions, which influenced the society of Southeast of Guangxi on politics, the economy, the trade and so on in modern times.

探讨鸦片泛滥成灾对近代桂东南社会产生的各种影响有利于人们认识当时桂东南社会的真实面目，是研究广西地方史的有机组成部分；

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Some critics have included former U.S.officials, who accuse members of his family of profiting from the opium trade.

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Holbrooke says the long-held notion that Afghanistan's illicit opium trade is the main source of funding for the insurgency is simply not true.

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But they remain a serious menace, financed by the profits from a resurgent opium trade, as are many of the warlords.

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The province is a gateway for the international opium trade between Afghanistan, the world's main producer of opiates, and consumers in Europe.

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Britain had fought two wars in favour of the opium trade in the 19th Century, crushing Chinese efforts to restrict its importation.

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