{"id":1129292,"date":"2021-12-17T18:44:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T23:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1129292"},"modified":"2021-12-17T18:44:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T23:44:05","slug":"china-claims-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-the-fentanyl-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-claims-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-the-fentanyl-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"China Claims It Has Nothing to Do With the Fentanyl Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-claims-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-the-fentanyl-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1129292&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/China-drugs-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>Chinese Communist officials and state media responded angrily on Thursday to U.S. sanctions against Chinese firms for their alleged role in the fentanyl drug crisis.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>President Joe Biden imposed the sanctions against four Chinese pillmakers by executive order on Wednesday, to \u201chelp disrupt the global supply chain and the financial networks that enable synthetic opioids and precursor chemicals to reach the United States,\u201d as Secretary of State Antony Blinken put it.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Also subjected to Treasury Department action was an individual named Chuen Fat Yip, described as \u201cone of the largest, if not the largest, producers of anabolic steroids in the world.\u201d Yip, a 68-year-old resident of the now-infamous city of Wuhan, allegedly shipped millions of dollars\u2019 worth of fentanyl ingredients from Shanghai and Hong Kong to illicit customers worldwide.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One of the shipments traced to Yip\u2019s operation included 24 kilograms of fentanyl precursors. According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dea.gov\/resources\/facts-about-fentanyl\"><span>U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency<\/span><\/a><span> (DEA), one kilogram (2.2 lbs.) of fentanyl can kill up to 500,000 people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Federal drug charges were <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndtx\/pr\/chinese-citizen-charged-massive-anabolic-steroid-and-fentanyl-precursor-chemical\"><span>filed<\/span><\/a><span> against Yip on Tuesday by the U.S. Attorney\u2019s office in the Northern District of Texas, which seized an estimated $2.3 million in cryptocurrency from Yip\u2019s digital wallet in November.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cThis defendant allegedly made millions manufacturing and distributing anabolic steroids and fentanyl precursors to American customers. The Justice Department will pursue drug defendants to the furthest reaches of the globe if that\u2019s what it takes to stem the tide of the drug epidemic,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Chad Meacham.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think it\u2019s very simple that a lot of the precursors to synthetic opioids originate in China, and it was important for us to send a signal on that front,\u201d a Biden administration official said Wednesday, as quoted by the UK <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/dec\/15\/china-painkillers-drugs-us-sanctions\"><i><span>Guardian<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span>Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202112\/1241657.shtml\"><span>denounced<\/span><\/a><span> the U.S. actions at a press conference on Thursday, sneering that Americans were trying to shift the blame for their own drug addiction to China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe urge the U.S. to respect the facts, look more to itself for the causes of the fentanyl abuse problem, and objectively and fairly evaluate the efforts made by China, rather than blaming other countries,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Wang insisted China\u2019s \u201cefforts and achievements\u201d on drug prevention are \u201cevident to the international community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>China\u2019s state-run <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202112\/1241679.shtml\"><i><span>Global Times<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span>slammed the Biden administration for \u201cpassing the buck to China\u201d instead of dealing with the U.S. drug problem:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"18\">\n<p><span>With drug addiction involving a synthetic opioid known as fentanyl becoming one of the fast-growing causes of death in the US, there has been an ongoing misconception that the US thinks its fentanyl abuse crisis is a result of Chinese companies producing or selling the drug. It is not uncommon to see American politicians and media outlets accusing China of selling fentanyl or precursor chemicals that end up on US shores.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With an entrenched bias against China, the US is used to blaming Beijing for almost everything. And the fentanyl issue is no exception. Yet, it should be clarified that the US fentanyl abuse crisis does not originate from China, and is actually a social problem in the US. It is no secret that some American pharmaceutical companies put their own economic interests above public health by actively encouraging people to use prescription fentanyl a few years ago, leading to the quick spread of the fentanyl addiction.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>faulted the U.S. government for not formally regulating fentanyl as strictly as China and boasted authoritarian Beijing could easily solve the drug crisis American democracy seems helpless against:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><span>With 5 percent of the global population, the US consumes about 80 percent of the world\u2019s opioids. Isn\u2019t it obvious where the roots of the US fentanyl abuse crisis lies? It is a total governance failure of the US government, a result of the irresponsible indulgence of the drug abuse by the federal and state governments. If something like this happened in China, officials would have been held to account layer by layer.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Contrary to these protestations from the Chinese Communist Party, drug abuse experts have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2019\/09\/25\/yore-chinese-undeclared-fentanyl-war\/\"><span>described<\/span><\/a><span> China\u2019s mass production of fentanyl as a deliberate chemical weapons attack on the United States. They note China boasts of passing tough laws against fentanyl production, but the massive Chinese surveillance state and brutal security apparatus seemingly do nothing to actually prevent production and international distribution of the drug.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/17\/cdc-drug-overdoses-reach-record-high-under-joe-biden\/\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span> in November that drug overdoses have reached a record high during Joe Biden\u2019s presidency, driven largely by fentanyl.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to U.S. security and law enforcement agencies, Chinese \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2019\/08\/22\/u-s-treasury-cracks-down-on-chinese-fentanyl-traffickers\/\"><span>drug kingpins<\/span><\/a><span>\u201d manufacture fentanyl at very high levels of purity \u2013 and lethality \u2013 then use Mexican cartels to slip their product across the U.S. border. As the charges filed against Yip in Texas suggest, cryptocurrency has become a preferred financial instrument for managing this deadly trade.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Communist officials and state media responded angrily on Thursday to U.S. sanctions against Chinese firms for their alleged role in the fentanyl drug crisis.\u00a0 President Joe Biden imposed the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}