The British East India Company deliberately imposed a triangular trade arrangement whereby Britain sold manufactured goods to India in order to buy opium, which it subsequently sold in China to finance the purchase of tea and other products. In other words, balanced global economic growth required war, colonization, and large-scale drug trafficking.
唯一一个相当长的“平衡”经济扩张时期是十九世纪初。英国东印度公司有意引入了三角贸易安排，英国向印度出售制造品以买入鸦片，然后将鸦片卖给中国为购买茶叶和其他产品融资。换句话说，平衡的全球经济增长需要战争、殖民和大规模贩毒。