Fentanyl continues to destroy families and lives in America. Meanwhile, China has all but solved the problem within its borders. This begs the question, if China knows how to solve the fentanyl crisis, why does it continue to allow its citizens to export this dangerous drug to America?

From NTD. As the United States deals with tens of thousands of fentanyl overdoses each year, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) is pointing to China’s comparative lack of fentanyl deaths as a sign that the Chinese government knows how to address the problem domestically but enables the potent opioid to keep flowing outside its borders.

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The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held a hearing on Tuesday to discuss the CCP’s apparent role in the global fentanyl trade and its deadly impacts.

Mr. Krishnamoorthi, the committee’s ranking member, presented a slide during the Tuesday hearing citing Chinese government figures that indicated China recorded zero fentanyl deaths in the year 2022. By comparison, Mr. Krishnamoorthi’s slide noted figures shared by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), indicating 76,000 fentanyl-related deaths occurred in the United States that same year. …

“It shows that they know how to prosecute drug traffickers and get rid of fentanyl, certainly for a domestic audience, but they’re perfectly okay with having it exported from China over here,” Mr. Krishnamoorthi told NTD News from the sidelines of the hearing on Tuesday.

Mr. Krishnamoorthi and committee chairman Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.) recently concluded a multi-month investigation into China’s role as a source for global fentanyl exports. Their report concludes the PRC government, through its ruling CCP, has provided numerous economic incentives to PRC-based firms producing fentanyl and other synthetic narcotics. …

“They’re not taking down websites and web postings that clearly are selling Chinese fentanyl from China. And they’re there subsidizing it through these tax rebates, which you know, just fuel the whole ecosystem,” “[Mr. Krishnamoorthi] said. “So when you have 97 percent of illicit fentanyl here coming from China, we know where we need to go to kind of stop the supply problem.”

The new House report states that Chinese authorities have thwarted past U.S. law enforcement investigations into Chinese entities suspected of engaging in illicit fentanyl manufacture. The report states multiple current and former U.S. federal agents described instances where Chinese counterparts notified targets of U.S. investigations, and they were then able to change their techniques to avoid detection. …

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(Excerpt from NTD. Photo Credit: Drug Enforcement Administration)