While many in the U.S. have attacked China for its role in allowing COVID-19 to spread across the globe, China is also the primary source of another plague that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans in recent years: Fentanyl.
The country hit a record 63,600 deaths in 2016 and we crossed the 100,000 death threshold for the 12-month period following April 2020, with the majority of those deaths coming from synthetic opioids like fentanyl.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cited synthetic opioids as the cause of death in 62,338 of those 100,000 deaths, adding that the category was "Primarily fentanyl."
The White House did not respond by press time when asked directly whether Biden has discussed the issue with Xi. Fentanyl, a man-made opioid, is so dangerous due to its potency - and its cost.
Illicit drug producers often lace their other substances with fentanyl to increase supply, often without the end-user even knowing it.
"China remains the primary source of fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances trafficked through international mail and express consignment operations environment, as well as the main source for all fentanyl-related substances trafficked into the United States," the Drug Enforcement Agency wrote in a 2020 report.
President Donald Trump's administration pushed China to crack down on its fentanyl producers during his trade negotiations in 2019.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/30/china-fentanyl-opioid-overdoses-xi-biden/
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