Guo Zi-Kung, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Friday argued that “fentanyl is not a Chinese issue, it is a US issue.”
“Only the US and the US are responsible for solving it,” he says. I said At a press conference.
“In spite of the goodwill China shows, the US has slapped tariffs on Chinese imports and blamed them on fentanyl. This is bullying through bullying and is extremely damaging to anti-drug dialogue and cooperation,” he complained.
“The US should know that slandering others doesn’t hide their responsibility for failings. They know that punishing people who try to help doesn’t solve the problem. Intimidation and threats are certainly not the right way to engage with China,” he said.
Guo was responding to reports of slow progress in consultations between us and Chinese officials about reducing the supply of China’s precursor chemicals for deadly fentanyl drugs. American officials I said “The Chinese said they were not negotiating in good faith,” Reuters said on Wednesday.
These officials said China is “exchanging information about traffickers,” but said the proposal to resolve the fentanyl crisis was “inadequate.”
Also, China may be willing to share Intel with them about human traffickers, but it rarely takes serious action against illegal chemical manufacturers. This is because fentanyl precursor chemicals also have legal uses, and the Chinese government is reluctant to infringe the interests of huge chemical companies.
“Start putting big, important people behind the bar as a signal to the industry as a whole and black market.
The Trump administration hopes that China will proactively prosecute people who produce and sell fentanyl chemicals, but China simply offers to regulate chemicals a little more tightly. Even this offer seems almost rhetorical to US negotiators who said “talk is cheap,” but it appears that China never does anything meaningful to shut down its chemical pipeline.
Trump’s first round of 20% tariffs on China in February were presented because punishments against China did not take the fentanyl crisis seriously enough. China responded by saying it would not do anything more to “deal with the fentanyl issue” until tariffs were lifted.
US officials unanimously say that China is a member of the United Nations Drug Commission I agree The March 2024 meeting held in Vienna, Austria will provide a closer control over fentanyl chemicals. Therefore, China’s proposal to regulate more chemicals is a “malicious” offer to do what it already pledged over a year ago.
Being pressed on this issue, Chinese officials have recently been repeatedly talking about Guo that fentanyl is a total American issue.
The biggest change in fentanyl production since the first Trump terminology is that China no longer ships precursor chemicals directly to American drug dealers. Instead, they ship the chemicals to the Mexican cartel. US fentanyl users and traffickers say drug supply has been declining little since China pledged to crack down on chemical producers.
President Trump It was mentioned China’s inadequate performance on the fentanyl epidemic on Thursday’s Truth Social Post. He also criticized the Chinese for not accepting the “beautiful and finished plane” that he agreed to buy from Boeing.
China I refused On Wednesday, he said Boeing would reject the 50 planes that are scheduled to be delivered next year to the two Boeing planes in retaliation against Trump’s tariffs. Boeing CEO Kelly Autoberg said it’s hardly difficult to sell most planes to other buyers thanks to high demand.
“And by the way, fentanyl continues to flow from China through Mexico and Canada to our country, killing hundreds of thousands of people, Trump wrote.
