{"id":1947030,"date":"2023-06-14T13:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T17:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-vows-to-make-every-effort-to-cooperate-with-china-on-fentanyl\/"},"modified":"2023-06-14T13:12:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T17:12:35","slug":"biden-admin-vows-to-make-every-effort-to-cooperate-with-china-on-fentanyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-vows-to-make-every-effort-to-cooperate-with-china-on-fentanyl\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden promises to work with China on Fentanyl."},"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\">16<\/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%2Fbiden-admin-vows-to-make-every-effort-to-cooperate-with-china-on-fentanyl%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=1947030&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--><h2>Biden Administration Aims to Halt Fentanyl Flow from China<\/h2>\n<p>The United States is stepping up efforts to halt the flow of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/atlantic-city-shutters-needle-exchange-site-amid-spike-in-deadly-overdoses\/\" title=\"Atlantic City Shutters Needle Exchange Site Amid Spike In Deadly Overdoses\">synthetic opioid fentanyl<\/a> from China, with negotiations on the table ahead of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken&#8217;s visit to Beijing. The rate of U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-vows-to-make-every-effort-to-cooperate-with-china-on-fentanyl\/\" title=\"Biden promises to work with China on Fentanyl.\">drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl<\/a> has more than tripled from 2016 through 2021, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Fentanyl is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and is increasingly mixed with other illicit drugs, often with lethal results. U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-fentanyl-related-deaths-more-than-tripled-over-5-years\/\" title=\"US Fentanyl-Related Deaths More Than Tripled Over 5 Years\">drug-related overdose deaths surpassed 100<\/a>,000 in 2021, according to government estimates.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This is an important issue. And it&#8217;s an issue I think is very likely going to be raised directly with the Secretary&#8217;s Chinese counterpart, PRC (People&#8217;s Republic of China) counterpart. And depending on the response, I think everything is on the table in terms of getting some kind of global cooperation on this issue,&#8221; said Todd Robinson, Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs at State Department.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Complicated Issue<\/h3>\n<p>Efforts could include negotiations with China over the 2020 U.S. decision to put China&#8217;s Ministry of Public Security&#8217;s Institute of Forensic Science on the Commerce Department&#8217;s &#8220;entity list&#8221;, effectively barring it from receiving U.S. exports. &#8220;There&#8217;s a number of reasons it was listed. So just un-listing it isn&#8217;t going to happen,&#8221; Robinson said in an interview. &#8220;It is a complicated issue. The lab is large, it&#8217;s part of a much larger facility and only part of the facility is listed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Cooperation is Key<\/h3>\n<p>The United States has said the institute was complicit in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-like-the-good-old-days-joe-biden-invades-syria-with-convoy-of-us-troops-and-choppers-on-first-full-day-as-president\/\" title=\"Just Like the Good Old Days: Joe Biden Invades Syria with Convoy of US Troops and Choppers on First Full Day as President\">human rights abuses<\/a> toward Uyghurs and other Chinese ethnic minorities. But Robinson said blocking the flow of fentanyl and precursors to the United States and securing China&#8217;s cooperation on the issue was a top priority. &#8220;Stemming the illicit flow of fentanyl &#8216;precursor&#8217; chemicals from China has been a priority for Washington but U.S. officials have told Reuters that Chinese counterparts have been reluctant to cooperate,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<h3>Every Effort<\/h3>\n<p>Blinken will travel to China next week for long-delayed talks aimed at stabilizing relations. A trip planned for February was postponed over a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secy-yellen-treasury-may-take-action-following-gamestop-stock-saga\/\" title=\"Secy. Yellen: Treasury may take action following GameStop stock saga\">dispute involving<\/a> an alleged Chinese spy balloon. He will be the highest ranking U.S. government official to visit China since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021. Robinson said he did not find it &#8220;that unusual&#8221; that China would seek to extract concessions from Washington in exchange for help on fentanyl. &#8220;But I think that because of the nature of this issue, we&#8217;re going to make every effort to get to a better place with the PRC on the precursor chemicals,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<h3>Take Action<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Learn more:<\/strong> Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">winred.tomcotton.com<\/a> to learn about defending the Supreme Court.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk; Additional reporting by Michael Martina and Kristina Cooke in San Francisco, Editing by Don Durfee and Angus MacSwan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US aims to increase collaboration with China to stop the influx of fentanyl, according to a US counter-narcotics official. 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