Thailand, Laos, and Burma have already been known as the “Golden Triangle” for their historically prominent function in the drug trade. For years and years, these countries have created the opium which has drawn traders from Europe and somewhere else. Economics, religion, and politics combine to make this area not only essential but also, to the western mind, amazing.

The World’s Political Hot Areas series explains the basis of conflicts in a few of the world’s most politically sensitive areas. Many of these locations are in today’s headlines, and tensions lately have become violent in practically all of them. Each presentation hides to ten decades of background, disclosing how and just why today’s problems happen.