Millions were addicted. Chinese warlords used the profits as well to shore up their despotic rule while the common people lived in the most abject poverty under the harshest oppression. In some instances the people starved there because land was given over to production for opium rather than for food. So five or six of these people were put to death. It is simple to slander.
Cooper seems well versed in it.
It is harder to determine the real basis of justice. Indeed, several thousand people have been executed in China by the state in modern times, and that qualifies as a big so what. I think Mr. Renteria has ably demonstrated his moral bias here. He in fact is not an opponent of the death penalty. He only opposes it for people he agrees with.