As the United States deals with tens of thousands of fentanyl overdoses each year, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) is pointing to China’s comparative lack of fentanyl deaths as a sign that the Chinese government knows how to address the problem domestically but enables the potent opioid to keep flowing outside its borders.
The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held a hearing on Tuesday to discuss the CCP’s apparent role in the global fentanyl trade and its deadly impacts.