Statecraft is the political policy of Collusion that proves the Strategy of the 1%.

Statecraft proves the evidence that show this is not a "conspiracy theory" but instead a Fact! As you will see in the excerpts below, Statecraft evolves systematically over the course of time, taking on as much power as possible. It justifies illegal acts on the basis of its own power which then becomes the status quo. In the final section, you see how obviously  illegal activity became sanitized under legal doctrine and language so that Statecraft could grow unchecked!

 

britain -- a modern slaving factory

In 1670, Charles II incorporated by royal charter the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), granting it a monopoly on the fur trade in the area known as Rupert's Land, which would later form a large proportion of the Dominion of Canada. Forts and trading posts established by the HBC were frequently the subject of attacks by the French, who had established their own fur trading colony in adjacent New France.
Two years later, the Royal African Company was inaugurated, receiving from King Charles a monopoly of the trade to supply slaves to the British colonies of the Caribbean. From the outset, slavery was the basis of the British Empire in the West Indies. Until the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, Britain was responsible for the transportation of 3.5 million African slaves to the Americas, a third of all slaves transported across the Atlantic. To facilitate this trade, forts were established on the coast of West Africa, such as James Island, Accra and Bunce Island. In the British Caribbean, the percentage of the population of African descent rose from 25 percent in 1650 to around 80 percent in 1780, and in the 13 Colonies from 10 percent to 40 percent over the same period (the majority in the southern colonies). For the slave traders, the trade was extremely profitable, and became a major economic mainstay for such western British cities as Bristol and Liverpool, which formed the third corner of the so-called triangular trade with Africa and the Americas. For the transported, harsh and unhygienic conditions on the slaving ships and poor diets meant that the average mortality rate during the middle passage was one in seven.
In 1695, the Scottish parliament granted a charter to the Company of Scotland, which established a settlement in 1698 on the isthmus of Panama. Besieged by neighbouring Spanish colonists of New Granada, and afflicted by malaria, the colony was abandoned two years later. The Darien scheme was a financial disaster for Scotland-a quarter of Scottish capital was lost in the enterprise-and ended Scottish hopes of establishing its own overseas empire. The episode also had major political consequences, persuading the governments of both England and Scotland of the merits of a union of countries, rather than just crowns. This occurred in 1707 with the Treaty of Union, establishing the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Rivalry with the Netherlands in Asia
Fort St. George was founded at Madras in 1639.
At the end of the 16th century, England and the Netherlands began to challenge Portugal's monopoly of trade with Asia, forming private joint-stock companies to finance the voyages-the English, later British, East India Company and the Dutch East India Company, chartered in 1600 and 1602 respectively. The primary aim of these companies was to tap into the lucrative spice trade, an effort focused mainly on two regions; the East Indies archipelago, and an important hub in the trade network, India. There, they competed for trade supremacy with Portugal and with each other. Although England would ultimately eclipse the Netherlands as a colonial power, in the short term the Netherlands' more advanced financial system and the three Anglo-Dutch Wars of the 17th century left it with a stronger position in Asia. Hostilities ceased after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 when the Dutch William of Orange ascended the English throne, bringing peace between the Netherlands and England. A deal between the two nations left the spice trade of the East Indies archipelago to the Netherlands and the textiles industry of India to England, but textiles soon overtook spices in terms of profitability, and by 1720, in terms of sales, the British company had overtaken the Dutch.

Between 1815 and 1914, a period referred to as Britain's "imperial century" by some historians, around 10,000,000 square miles (26,000,000 km) of territory and roughly 400 million people were added to the British Empire. Victory over Napoleon left Britain without any serious international rival, other than Russia in central Asia. Unchallenged at sea, Britain adopted the role of global policeman, a state of affairs later known as the Pax Britannica, and a foreign policy of "splendid isolation". Alongside the formal control it exerted over its own colonies, Britain's dominant position in world trade meant that it effectively controlled the economies of many countries, such as China, Argentina and Siam, which has been characterized by some historians as "informal empire".
British imperial strength was underpinned by the steamship and the telegraph, new technologies invented in the second half of the 19th century, allowing it to control and defend the empire. By 1902, the British Empire was linked together by a network of telegraph cables, the so-called All Red Line.

East India Company in Asia
The East India Company drove the expansion of the British Empire in Asia. The Company's army had first joined forces with the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War, and the two continued to cooperate in arenas outside India: the eviction of Napoleon from Egypt (1799), the capture of Java from the Netherlands (1811), the acquisition of Singapore (1819) and Malacca (1824) and the defeat of Burma (1826).

From its base in India, the Company had also been engaged in an increasingly profitable opium export trade to China since the 1730s. This trade, illegal since it was outlawed by the Qing dynasty in 1729, helped reverse the trade imbalances resulting from the British imports of tea, which saw large outflows of silver from Britain to China. In 1839, the confiscation by the Chinese authorities at Canton of 20,000 chests of opium led Britain to attack China in the First Opium War, and resulted in the seizure by Britain of Hong Kong Island, at that time a minor settlement.

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries the British Crown began to assume an increasingly large role in the affairs of the Company. A series of Acts of Parliament were passed, including the Regulating Act of 1773, Pitt's India Act of 1784 and the Charter Act of 1813 which regulated the Company's affairs and established the sovereignty of the Crown over the territories that it had acquired. The Company's eventual end was precipitated by the Indian Rebellion, a conflict that had begun with the mutiny of sepoys, Indian troops under British officers and discipline. The rebellion took six months to suppress, with heavy loss of life on both sides. The following year the British government dissolved the Company and assumed direct control over India through the Government of India Act 1858, establishing the British Raj, where an appointed governor-general administered India and Queen Victoria was crowned the Empress of India. India became the empire's most valuable possession, "the Jewel in the Crown", and was the most important source of Britain's strength.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM, 1800–1914 Torrent

Carl Cavanagh Hodge “Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800-1914 (Two Volumes)" Greenwood Press | 2007-11-30 | ISBN:0313334048 | PDF | 1016 pages |

In 1800, Europeans governed about one-third of the world's land surface; by the start of World War I in 1914, Europeans had imposed some form of political or economic ascendancy on over 80 percent of the globe. The basic structure of global and European politics in the twentieth century was fashioned in the previous century out of the clash of competing imperial interests and the effects, both beneficial and harmful, of the imperial powers on the societies they dominated. This encyclopedia offers current, detailed information on the major world powers of the nineteenth century and their global empires, as well as on the people, events, and ideas, both European and non-European, that shaped the Age of Imperialism. Besides detailed entries that describe the formation, structure, and influence of the economic and territorial empires built by Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Japan, the Ottoman Turks, and the United States prior to World War I, Besides over 800 clearly written and highly informative entries, the encyclopedia includes primary documents, a chronology, and extensive introductory essay, a bibliography, a guide to related topics, and a series of useful maps.

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Opium Act 1908 page 248

PART IV - PUBLIC POLICY OPTIONS 437

CHAPTER 19 - THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ENVIRONMENT 439
A GENEALOGY 440
The 1909 Shanghai Conference 443
The 1912 Hague International Opium Convention 444
The 1925 Geneva Opium Conventions 446
The 1931 Geneva Narcotics Manufacturing and Distribution Limitation Convention / 1931
Bangkok Opium Smoking Agreement 447
The 1936 Geneva Convention for the Suppression of the Illicit Traffic in Dangerous Drugs 448
The Second World War 449
The 1946 Lake Success Protocol 449
The 1948 Paris Protocol 450
The 1953 New York Opium Protocol 450
THE THREE CURRENT CONVENTIONS 451
The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 451
Convention on Psychotropic Substances 455
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 460
Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 462
SOME LEEWAY? 464
CONCLUSIONS 468

GOOGLE Vilhelm Meyer SHANGHAI OR DUTCH
 

Christopher Bo Bramsen, Open Doors. Vilhelm Meyer and the Establishment of General Electric in China

Marie-Claire Bergère

A large house overlooking the port of Copenhagen and, next to the sea in Sokdsberg, an enormous summer residence, full of children and loyal domestic staff, where elegant young girls dream as they write in their personal diaries. Their fathers, uncles and friends are all important merchants, ministers or diplomats—the scene is reminiscent of an Ingmar Bergman film, a taste ofWild Strawberries maybe. So what does China have to do with this Scandinavian family saga? It acts as the setting, the backdrop for the destiny of a couple of “Shanghailanders” born into this Danish high society. The story of Vilhelm Meyer and Kirsten Bramsen is told to us by their grandson, Christopher Bo Bramsen who, in 1995 and in keeping with the family tradition, presented Jiang Zemin with his credentials as Denmark’s ambassador to China.

Vilhelm Meyer arrived in Shanghai in 1902, where, a few years later, he founded Andersen, Meyer & Co., which was to become one of the largest companies in China. Almost immediately, the company began to specialize in the import of building materials—iron, steel and glass. When World War I closed down European supply markets, Meyer placed his orders with the US, where he also found new capital and new partners. Andersen, Meyer & Co. thus became an American company, registered in New York, and the General Electric Company’s sole agent in China. The company broadened its horizons—it created half-a-dozen branches in the coastal provinces, began processing and exporting wool, leather and carpets, and extended its business activities to Manila.

The chronicle of commercial success alternates with that of family life—between 1910 to 1920, four little girls came into the world, each new birth resulting in the hiring of additional nannies,amahs and governesses. As he never actually knew his grandparents, the author’s main sources are notes, letters and diaries written by Kirsten Meyer, her four daughters and one of her nephews. Other than some texts published in 1959 by one of the Meyer daughters, these documents have so far remained unpublished. The author also relies heavily on correspondence from the young girls’ Danish governess, who was with them in Shanghai from 1920 to 1923.

The nature of this documentation means that the account tends towards a semi-domestic/semi-society story. It includes touches that are found in the memoirs of all wealthy expatriates—the tribute paid to loyal and ingenious Chinese servants and the descriptions of birthday, Christmas and New Year celebrations. The parties are lavish, as demonstrated by the sophistication of the menus and the quality of the orchestras that make the guests dance. These guests include various business acquaintances of the master of the house, key figures from the foreign concessions, and European and American dignitaries who happen to be passing through town. There are also Chinese guests, of whom only two are identified by name—the banker Li Min and the opera singer Mei Lanfang. The book’s title Open Doors, which makes reference to the Open Door (1) policy, should also be understood as a tribute to the warm hospitality extended by Meyer.

In the summer, the family and its army of domestic staff decamp to the seaside at Wei-hai-wei, a British enclave on the northern coast of Shandong. Sometimes, when Vilhelm set out on one of his many business trips or family gatherings, his wife, children, nannies and governesses would follow in his wake. These could be very long journeys that took the entire party across the Pacific, the United States and Europe, giving them the chance to form pleasant relationships with people they met on the way.

The lifestyle described in this chronicle is much the same as that evoked in many other accounts given by former residents of the Shanghai concessions, except maybe for the ostentation that the Meyers exhibit and their preference for musical rather than sporting activities. The upheavals in Chinese political life and the dramas taking place in Shanghai in the period from 1920 to 1930 (revolutionary struggles, the police’s reign of terror and Japanese aggression) are evoked by the author but they do not appear to have much impact on the circles in which the Meyers move. As one of the governesses wrote to her mother, “Do not worry if you hear about problems in China…these do not affect us” (p. 160). And so, in this family saga, it comes to pass that the visit of a nephew in the autumn of 1926 eclipses the revolutionary uprising of Shanghai workers.

Even though his wife Kirsten seems to keep abreast of her husband’s business dealings, the rest of the family content themselves with their admiration and respect for the capacity for work shown by the big boss. Given the absence of any archives from Andersen, Meyer & Co., which were apparently lost, we would undoubtedly know little more about the company if the author had not come across a booklet published in 1931 to mark the occasion of its twenty-fifth anniversary. At its height, the company had nine branches in China. It had undertaken significant diversification of its business activities which were grouped in specialised departments—textile equipment, electricity, general tooling, plumbing and heating, building materials, chemicals, agricultural equipment, etc. Andersen and Meyer gradually moved from being a simple importer of materials and equipment to the construction business. Even in China itself, they built industrial plants (cotton mills, electricity plants and dockyards) that were delivered “ready-to-use”.

Kirsten’s premature death in 1934, followed a few months later by that of her husband, brought an end to this great Danish family’s Shanghainese adventure. The family business was thus taken over by its main American partner, General Electric, whose first steps into the Chinese market the company had fostered.

More than just a history book, Open Doors is a family album, abundantly illustrated and carefully narrated. You can easily let yourself be captivated, or not, by the charm of its pictures and its accounts drawn from another century and another world—that of the “happy few” for whom Shanghai was “a paradise”. 

Translated from the French original by Bernie Mahapatra