Chinese Regime Claims It Bears No Responsibility for US Fentanyl Crisis

Experts said that fentanyl has played a key role in the U.S.–China tariff war and that there are four scenarios for the conflict’s future development.

Tablets suspected to be fentanyl are placed on a graph to measure their size at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Northeast Regional, in New York, on Oct. 8, 2019. Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images

The Chinese communist regime has said that fentanyl is a U.S. domestic problem, not China’s responsibility.

The statement came as the two countries reached a truce in the tariff war after talks in Geneva on May 12. The 20 percent U.S. tariff imposed on Chinese goods linked to illicit fentanyl, however, hasn’t been lifted.