{"id":2222140,"date":"2024-04-16T09:49:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T13:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-report-details-chinas-abhorrent-role-fueling-the-fentanyl-epidemic-killing-americans\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T09:57:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T13:57:54","slug":"house-report-details-chinas-abhorrent-role-fueling-the-fentanyl-epidemic-killing-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-report-details-chinas-abhorrent-role-fueling-the-fentanyl-epidemic-killing-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"House report highlights China&#8217;s significant contribution to the fentanyl epidemic claiming American lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fhouse-report-details-chinas-abhorrent-role-fueling-the-fentanyl-epidemic-killing-americans%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=2222140&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--><p>The House Select Committee report reveals China&#8217;s involvement in the fentanyl crisis, citing &#8220;abhorrent&#8221; actions violating international laws. \u200bIt exposes \u200cChina&#8217;s subsidies for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-national-sentenced-for-aiding-drug-traffickers\/\" title=\"Chinese National Sentenced for Aiding Drug Traffickers\">illegal fentanyl<\/a> exports and obstruction of U.S. investigations. The report highlights China&#8217;s role in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-eyes-rd-bill-to-bolster-competitiveness-with-china\/\" title=\"Senate Eyes R&#038;D Bill to Bolster Competitiveness With China\">money laundering schemes<\/a> and undermining law enforcement efforts. It emphasizes \u2064the profound impact of China&#8217;s \u2063actions\u200d on global human suffering.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The House Select Committee on the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Chinese Communist Party<\/a> released a report on Tuesday detailing its investigation into China\u2019s role in the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fentanyl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>fentanyl<\/a> crisis, calling attention to the nation\u2019s \u201cabhorrent\u201d actions and failure to pursue \u201cflagrant\u201d violations of its own laws.<\/p>\n<p>In its investigation, the committee found that China subsidizes the exports of illegal fentanyl materials and other synthetic narcotics and has thwarted <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>U.S.<\/a> investigations into illicit fentanyl manufacturers, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese actions and omissions are abhorrent, violate the laws of nations, and have led to profound human suffering in the United States and around the world,\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n<p>A majority committee aide told reporters that though the committee knew of the CCP\u2019s involvement in the fentanyl crisis, the purpose of the bipartisan investigation was to uncover the scope of its role. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fentanyl trade boosts China\u2019s economy has allowed Chinese organized crime to become the world\u2019s premier money launderers with US law enforcement finding evidence indicating that money laundering schemes involved Chinese government officials and the Chinese Communist Party elite,\u201d the majority aide said.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the investigation involved combing through seven e-commerce websites, a process that turned up over 31,000 instances of nearly 2,050 People\u2019s Republic of China companies selling illegal drugs with clear indications of drug trafficking, the aide said, such as guarantees to bypass customs and accepting cryptocurrency as payment, violating Chinese laws. The committee found that among the 2,048 companies involved in the sales, there were over 1,500 \u201ccommon linkages,\u201d such as shared phone numbers and addresses. Some of the companies sold both illegal fentanyl and legal chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>The committee also concluded in the report that China subsidized the sale of illegal narcotics overseas through excessive rebates against the country\u2019s value-added tax. The report said that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-announces-racially-targeted-economic-plan\/\" title=\"Biden announces racially targeted economic plan\">subsidy program<\/a> has been in place since at least 2018, when the Chinese government subsidized the sale of at least 17 illegal synthetic narcotics, including 14 \u201cdeadly fentanyl analogs\u201d that have no known legal use worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>After initial reporting, the CCP scrubbed the internet for the website that tracks the rebates. However, the committee investigators eventually located the information through the State Taxation Administration, which reports directly to the State Council, the top organ in the PRC government. Searching in English yielded no results, but searching in Mandarin allowed the committee to see \u201call forms of fentanyl\u201d and the rebates associated with them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a PRC subsidy program in place that gives money for people to make illegal drugs and send it outside of China,\u201d the majority committee aide said. \u201cThese drugs are killing Americans; they\u2019re killing our allies and friends around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a mass drug trafficking program sponsored by the Chinese Communist Party,\u201d the aide continued.<\/p>\n<p>China officials have also \u201cobfuscated, delayed, and attempted to dissuade\u201d American law enforcement from prosecuting criminal fentanyl traffickers, the report detailed. In May 2018, a Justice Department investigative team met with PRC officials to discuss a drug trafficking organization, but Chinese officials refused to engage with U.S. officials and would not cooperate with a separate investigation.<\/p>\n<p>In the past five years, the United States and its allies have indicted \u201cdozens\u201d of Chinese individuals and entities engaged in fentanyl, and third-party investigative groups have identified \u201cover a hundred more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite this evidence\u2014which was established without any access to the PRC\u2019s vast surveillance state\u2014China has thus far done nothing to investigate or prosecute these groups,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CCP\u2019s failure to investigate these cases\u2014and in many cases effectively notifying criminals of investigations into criminal conduct\u2014is deeply disturbing,\u201d the report continued, adding that the CCP\u2019s failure to enforce its laws is \u201cstartling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been a bipartisan call for so many of these bad actor companies in the PRC to be held accountable,\u201d a minority committee aide said during the call. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd one of the things we really hope this \u2014 I certainly hope this investigation accomplishes is providing ammunition for us to go to the CCP, to talk to the CCP, and hold these bad actors accountable. It\u2019s time for these folks to be prosecuted. It\u2019s time for these platforms to take down these blatant sales of drug materials. And its time for us to implement a number of other policy recs in this report,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the report, the committee recommends that the U.S. establish a joint task force, strengthen U.S. sanctions authorities, and enact and use trade and customs measures to restrict trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>The 63-page report comes ahead of a hearing on Tuesday morning, where committee members will hear from members and witnesses, including former Attorney General Bill Barr, former DEA chief of operations Ray Donovan, and David Luckey from RAND Cooperation.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party unveiled a report exposing China&#8217;s involvement in the fentanyl crisis. The report criticized China for its &#8220;abhorrent&#8221; behavior and neglect to address violations of its laws. It revealed that China subsidizes illegal fentanyl exports, contributing to the crisis that claims American lives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2648,"featured_media":2222141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP23111807724125-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2222140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP23111807724125-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222140","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\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2222141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}