The United States continues to pressure Beijing over its role in America’s fentanyl crisis, with recent criminal convictions of Chinese executives and a presidential determination that identified China as a major drug transit or illicit drug-producing country.
China is widely recognized as the main source of precursor chemicals used to produce illicit fentanyl. Those chemicals are often shipped to other countries, particularly Mexico, where they are manufactured into final products and then transported into the United States.
President Donald Trump said on his Truth Social account on Sept. 19 that he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping discussed efforts to curb fentanyl during a phone call earlier that day….
US Continues to Pressure China Over Fentanyl
