May 5, 2023 9:54am EDT
Chinese Communist Party not 'contributing' to US fentanyl crisis, Biden ambassador says
US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns claims private firms within Chinese borders are responsible for fentanyl production
By Timothy H.J. Nerozzi | Fox News
President Biden's ambassador to the People's Republic of China told the press Thursday that the Communist Party is not pushing fentanyl into the U.S.
Ambassador Nicholas Burns dismissed the idea that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is "contributing" to the fentanyl crisis in the U.S., saying the drug is actually arriving on American shores from private Chinese firms.
"Can we work on the fentanyl problem? The government here in Beijing is not contributing to that problem," Burns told Politico on Thursday.
He continued, "But black-market Chinese firms are, and they’re shipping illicit precursor chemicals to the drug cartels in Mexico and Central America that make the fentanyl that poisons and often kills Americans."
The fentanyl crisis kills nearly 200 Americans every day, according to the Department of Justice. Despite evidence that the People's Republic of China is the primary manufacturing location for illegal fentanyl, there is no venue for Americans to take on legal claims against distributors within China.
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