Chinese are simple and patient people. And the revenge is a dish best served cold. Now it seems that is a payback time for the West destroying generations of Chinese during the opium wars, forcing million Chinese into opium addiction.
The opium trade drastically increased in 19th century with Opium at the time, being one of the most important forced “export” from Britain to China.
Now, a Biden administration official called out China’s unwillingness to help the United States counter the smuggling of illicit fentanyl at the border during testimony at a subcommittee hearing Wednesday, Brandon Poulter writes for the Conservative Daily News.
Fentanyl precursors are illegally produced in China, which find their way to Mexican cartels that process it into fentanyl and then smuggle it across the border, according to a United States and China Economic and Security Commission brief. While China was initially cooperative with U.S. efforts to crackdown on fentanyl produced in the country, it has chosen “not to engage” on the issue as of late, Kemp Chester, assistant director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said during the House subcommittee hearing on “Fighting the Flow of Fentanyl from the Southwest Border.”
“Has China helped us over the last year or two? Have you seen that level of cooperation?,” Democratic California Rep. Lou Correa, the ranking member on the committee, asked.
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“As of late, over more than a year, for a variety of reasons, the PRC has decided not to engage with the United States on counter-narcotics and a number of other issues. The United States would like that level of cooperation again,” Chester told the committee.
Chester works with multiple agencies to coordinate efforts in reducing the availability of heroin, fentanyl and other drugs in the United States by disrupting drug supply chains, according to his White House bio. He works with both the White House and the National Security Council to manage these partnerships.
“It’s as though every time you stop one place, something else explodes,” Correa said.
Drug seizures have surged in recent months.
Border patrol agents seized enough fentanyl to kill 2 million people in California in June. Northern border patrol has seen a surge in drug smuggling, with 1,500 pounds of drugs being seized between October 2022 and February 2023, surpassing the 1,300 pounds of drugs seized in Fiscal Year 2022.
The White House did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment, Brandon Poulter writes at CDN.
China Is ‘Skirting’ Regulations To Produce Fentanyl To Poison Americans, continues another journalist, Jack Applewhite.
A Daily Caller News Foundation reporter described Thursday how China is “skirting” regulations in order to bring dangerous drugs like fentanyl into the U.S.
Investigative reporter Jennie Taer told “Shamer” podcast host Seamus Coughlin that U.S. officials have been unable to cooperate with China on combating the flow of illegal drugs like fentanyl into the country. A Biden administration official testified earlier this week that China has been unwilling to help prevent fentanyl from being trafficked across the border into the U.S.
“As much as the U.S. tried to push further against China and work with China on this issue, we are not seeing the cooperation with them and it’s really alarming because how can you stop this problem if you can’t go after the root of it, which is what they argue,” Taer said. “You can’t go after these strong chemicals that are integral to making the product that comes into the U.S. and poisons our children and their children. Honestly, it’s horrific,” Taer said.
Taer also said that China has modified the chemical profile of the drugs to “skirt” regulations and bring fentanyl into the U.S. She said it has become a “pipeline” that China can use to easily transport illicit drugs into the country.
“These companies and … individuals in China have moved the needle [and] have been able to skirt these regulations. What they do is … change an element of the chemical makeup, because they literally have chemists working on this; so they are changing a small part of the chemical makeup so it’s not technically the precursors that are regulated. It’s just like a slight difference but of course, it can still be used by the cartels to make the final product. So that’s what is happening, it’s like this pipeline that they’re able to constantly … move this stuff and get into the country in a very like quick, easy way,” Taer said.
Fentanyl was largely the source of nearly 107,000 overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There has been an increase in fentanyl seizures along the southwest border, with over 19,000 pounds of fentanyl intercepted in the region since October of 2022, which has already surpassed the entire quantity seized in all of last year, according to Customs and Border Protection, concludes Jack Applewhite at CDN.
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