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Narcotopia

In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel that Outwitted the CIA

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Narcotopia

By: Patrick Winn
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The jagged mountains dividing China and Burma belong to the Wa, an indigenous group who have outwitted the CIA to create the world's mightiest narco-state, controlling more territory than Israel and with more troops than Sweden. Are they crime lords? Or visionaries?

Wa State has become a real nation with its own highways, anthems, schools and flags. Its leaders promise a utopia, using profits from trafficking heroin and meth to attain what China's other frontier peoples, Tibetans and Uighurs, can only dream of: a state of their own. Patrick Winn (author of Hello, Shadowlands) embarks on a risky journey of discovery, chasing clues about the forbidden republic from Thailand to Burma to the secretive Wa State itself.

©2024 Patrick Winn (P)2024 W. F. Howes Ltd Asia China Freedom & Security Indigenous Studies Politics & Government Social Sciences Specific Demographics Espionage Middle East Imperial Japan Military
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