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Xi Jinping has said that video games are “spiritual opium” and imposed limits on access and other measures to forestall what he sees as increasing cultural decay among Chinese youth. From “The Avoidable War”:

Coming from the Gen Sec of CCP, "spiritual opium" is not just a synonym for "makes you stupid". It has a special context.

> [in the late 1700s] Because of this trade imbalance, Britain increasingly had to use silver to pay for its expanding purchases of Chinese goods. In the late 1700s, Britain tried to alter this balance by replacing cotton with opium, also grown in India. In economic terms, this was a success for Britain; by the 1820s, the balance of trade was reversed in Britain’s favour, and it was the Chinese who now had to pay with silver.

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Coming from the Gen Sec of CCP, "spiritual opium" is not just a synonym for "makes you stupid". It has a special context.

> [in the late 1700s] Because of this trade imbalance, Britain increasingly had to use silver to pay for its expanding purchases of Chinese goods. In the late 1700s, Britain tried to alter this balance by replacing cotton with opium, also grown in India. In economic terms, this was a success for Britain; by the 1820s, the balance of trade was reversed in Britain’s favour, and it was the Chinese who now had to pay with silver.

https://asiapacificcurriculum.ca/learning-module/opium-wars-china