China’s Expanding Illicit Drug Networks Raise Challenges for US Policy

As the White House pushes for more cooperation with China on counternarcotics, Chinese drug trafficking networks are growing.

An officer from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Trade and Cargo Division finds Oxycodone pills in a parcel at John F. Kennedy Airport's U.S.

Campbell reassured those present that the United States would work with foreign nations to rein in drug trafficking by criminal networks from China.

Postal Service facility in New York on June 24, 2019.

“West Virginia has been hit hard by the drug epidemic and a lot of the poison on our streets can be directly traced back to Mexican drug cartels using fentanyl materials from China,” Mooney told The Epoch Times.

Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell was in the island nation of Vanuatu, promising locals that the United States would crack down on the growing networks of Chinese drug traffickers.

But his admission of a growing Chinese drug trade raises questions as to the efficacy of the Biden administration’s counternarcotics engagements with China. 

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