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By the turn of the century, every …

Years: 1900 - 1911

By the turn of the century, every Southeast Asian state from Burma to the Philippines has either an opium monopoly or an officially licensed franchise.

In 1905-1906, for example, opium sales provide 16 percent of taxes for French Indochina, …