When we wrote the Underground Book Thailand had closed his borders for Steroids and Male enhancement pills, mostly counterfeited Viagra. Pfizer makes millions of profit, producing a sildenafil containing tablet costs only cents and they sold it for a hundred fold. Thailand also sold cheap generic tablets and many people where able to buy outside their regional healthsystem. We all know how strong the pharmaceutical lobby is. The uSA protects his taxpayers and the pressure on Thailand became so high that it gave in.
China in fact owns the USA (financially) and this proud country didn’t gave in, the bodybuilding community had acces to China’s big pharma. First they sold reliable Growth hormones (rhGH) the famous Jintropin and ruined the very high prices of the US and European Pharma’s asked for their products. China also sold cheap API’s (raw powders) and all the necessary ancillairies. Soon all kind of Underground Laboratories (UG Labs) some good most of them bad, and home brewers bought their products in China.