the vast majority of the fentanyl that's killing 70,000+ people a year in the US is manufactured in China. The Chinese government has done next to nothing to prevent this
The manufacture of Fentanyl has been illegal in China since 1 March 2017.
How effectively and stringently that ban is enforced might be open to question, but to say that the Chinese government has done "next to nothing" is hyperbolic.
They get around it by making precursors and then sending it to Mexico for the cartels to finish and then traffic into the US. It's a loophole China allows to stay open
When the Chinese had a problem with a lot of their citizens becoming addicted to opiates and tried to curb it, the Western powers actually invaded them (see Opium War). This seems like karma.
Bullshit. That's an entirely bogus excuse. The US wasn't responsible for the opium war on China.
It's quite the opposite in terms of how the US has treated them. In terms of actual behavior, China has never had a better friend in its modern history than the US. The US helped China vs the Empire of Japan, which had done unimaginably horrible things to China. The US kept the Soviets from nuking China in 1969. The US invested trillions of dollars into China's economy over decades. We've treated them more than fair, we've worked with them as traders, we've tolerated their aggressive hacking and anti-WTO trade practices for nearly two decades. The US is the sole reason China got into the WTO. We've gone out of our way to try to respect their sensitivities toward Taiwan for decades. The US didn't seek to conquer China, or annex parts of China, or invade China, or turn them into a colony of a superpower. We traded with them and they've successfully built the world's second largest economy on the back of it.
mikro2nd|7 years ago
How effectively and stringently that ban is enforced might be open to question, but to say that the Chinese government has done "next to nothing" is hyperbolic.
beginningguava|7 years ago
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/sd-m...
coretx|7 years ago
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adventured|7 years ago
It's quite the opposite in terms of how the US has treated them. In terms of actual behavior, China has never had a better friend in its modern history than the US. The US helped China vs the Empire of Japan, which had done unimaginably horrible things to China. The US kept the Soviets from nuking China in 1969. The US invested trillions of dollars into China's economy over decades. We've treated them more than fair, we've worked with them as traders, we've tolerated their aggressive hacking and anti-WTO trade practices for nearly two decades. The US is the sole reason China got into the WTO. We've gone out of our way to try to respect their sensitivities toward Taiwan for decades. The US didn't seek to conquer China, or annex parts of China, or invade China, or turn them into a colony of a superpower. We traded with them and they've successfully built the world's second largest economy on the back of it.