US, China Restart Talks on Fentanyl Crackdown

Tuesday’s meeting marked the first discussion of a new working group to revive U.S.–China cooperation on countering the narcotics trade.

U.S. Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Homeland Security Adviser Jen Daskal (C) speaks during a meeting with Chinese Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Jan. 30, 2024. Ng Han Guan/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

U.S. and Chinese officials sat down in Beijing on Tuesday for their first talks in years on combating the illicit trafficking of fentanyl, a deadly synthetic drug that has killed thousands of Americans each year.

Tuesday’s meeting marked the first discussion of a new working group established after U.S. President Joe Biden and China’s communist regime leader Xi Jinping agreed to restart the cooperation in countering the narcotics trade, one of the achievements of the two leaders’ meeting in San Francisco last November.