CCP Doing Nothing to Stop Drug-Precursor Sales to the US
Commentary
Roughly 90 percent of fentanyl deaths in the United States can be traced back to China, with Mexican drug cartels turning Chinese precursor materials into finished products. However, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is doing nothing to stop the sale of Chinese chemicals to the cartels.
“At the very top of this lethal food chain are bad actors in China manufacturing fentanyl and the CCP who is allowing their lethal fentanyl engine to run while it kills off thousands of Americans,” read a March 1 statement by Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.), a member of the United States House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. Newhouse said that fentanyl is part of the pattern of aggression from the CCP and an existential threat to the United States….