The spokesman of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Guo Jiakun, insisted on Friday that “fentanyl is the problem of the United States, not that of China.”
“The United States and the United States only have the responsibility to resolve it”, Guo saying At a press conference.
“Despite the goodwill that China has demonstrated, the United States slapped tariffs on Chinese imports and blame for fentanyl. This is harassment from beginning to end, and very harmful to dialogue and cooperation in contra-narcotics,” he says.
“The United States should know that vilifying others will not hide their failed responsibility, punishing those who try to help will not solve any problems, and intimidation or threats are certainly not the correct form with China,” he said.
Guo was responding to the reports about the slow progress in conversations between US and Chinese officials about the reduction of China’s precursor chemicals supply for the deadly medication of fentanyl. American officials said Reuters on Wednesday that the Chinese “are not negotiating in good faith.”
These officials said that China is “exchanging intelligence on traffickers”, but their proposals to resolve the fentanyl crisis have “inappropriate” bone.
In addition, although China could be willing to share Intel about traffickers, it rarely takes serious measures against manufacturers of illicit chemicals. This is partly due to the fact that fentanyl precursor chemicals also have legitimate uses, and the Chinese government is reluctant to compromise the profits of its huge chemical companies.
“Start putting big and important people after bars as a sign for the entire industry or black market. We just didn’t see it,” said an American official.
The Trump administration wants China to aggressively process those who produce and sell fentanyl chemicals, while China simply offers to regulate chemicals a little more closely. Only this sacrifice seems large rhetorical for US negotiators, who said “the talk is cheap”, but China never seems to do anything significant to close the chemical pipe.
The first round of 20 percent of Trump in China in February was presented as punishment so that China did not take the fentanyl crisis seriously. China responded by saying that it would do nothing more to “address the problem of fentanil” until the tariffs rose.
American officials pointed out that China is a member of the UN Narcotic Drug Commission, which unanimously accept To place more strict controls in fentanyl chemicals at a March 2024 meeting in Vienna, Austria. China’s proposals to regulate more chemicals are, therefore, a sacrifice of “bad faith” to do something that has already promised to do more than a year ago.
Pressing on the subject, Chinese officials have been repeating Guo’s point of conversation in an accelerated way that fentanil is completely an American problem, even thought that no one discusses that most chemicals come from China.
The greatest change in fentanyl production since the first term of Trump has been that China no longer sends precursor chemicals directly to US drug traffickers; Instead, it sends the chemicals to Mexican posters, which activates the Fentanyle. Fentanyl users and traffickers in the United States say there has been very little reduction in drug supply since China promised to take energetic measures against chemical producers.
President Trump mentioned China’s not established factorial performance on the fentanyl epidemic in a real social position on Thursday, in which he also criticized the Chinese for not accepting the “beautifully finished aircraft” that they agreed to buy from Boeing.
Porcelain refused To receive two Boeing aircraft on Wednesday in retaliation for Trump’s tariffs and said he would reject 50 more planes than Boeing was scheduled to deliver next year. The Boeing CEO, Kelly Ortberg, said the company would have few difficulty selling airplanes to other buyers, thanks to high demand.
“And, by the way, the fentanyl continues to arrive in our country from China, through Mexico and Canada, killing hundreds of thousands of our people, and it is better to stop, now!” Trump wrote.
