Pubdate: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 Source: Otago Daily Times (New Zealand) Copyright: 2005 Allied Press Limited Contact: http://www.odt.co.nz/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/925 Author: Jack Hill DRUGS HOW much money and effort are the Chinese expending on drug control and port surveillance in their own country? Why should a small country like New Zealand have to spend huge amounts of money on border control to stop a flood of dangerous drugs from a country out of control where drug manufacturing seems to be a corporate business? I suggest, included in Prime Minister Helen Clark's free trade deal with the Chinese government, should be a clause imposing huge fines, like the seizure of illegal fishing boats, telling them this is unacceptable to New Zealand. We are now seeing the totally mad sort of crimes associated with this new drug and it is surely time to give the Chinese government some hard words. Jack Hill Palmerston - --- MAP posted-by: Josh