Working for investigative committee reached the Beijing government portal through which Chinese producers producing the so-called fentanyl precursors can apply for tax exemptions – provided they sell the substances outside China – the Głos America portal reported.
Were Attorney General William Barr testifying before the committee, he said that this information contained compelling evidence of precursor subsidies. In November, Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping decided to resume bilateral cooperation to limit the trade in drugs and substances necessary for their production.
The committee’s chairman, Republican Mike Gallagher, said the actions of the Chinese Communist Party prove that “Beijing wants more fentanyl to flow into our country; it wants the epidemic to sow chaos and destruction.”
Chinese Embassy in the US: There is no fentanyl problem in China
Chinese Embassy in Washington she told Reuters in a comment that “there is no fentanyl problem in China, the fentanyl crisis in the United States is not caused by the Chinese side, and blindly blaming China cannot solve the US problem.”
Fentanyl – what is this substance?
In the US, the majority drug overdose deaths are related to fentanyl, which is also often added to other drugs. Fentanyl jIt is a very strong anesthetic – according to the American Center for Disease Control and Prevention, it anesthetics one hundred times more strongly than morphine, and is addictive many times faster than heroin. Even a 2.5-milligram pinch of the pure substance is a lethal dose.
