China has pledged to stem a flood of the synthetic opioid fentanyl onto America&...
WASHINGTON - China has pledged to stem a flood of the synthetic opioid fentanyl onto America’s streets, where it kills thousands of people a month, but U.S. security experts are skeptical about whether Beijing is willing, or even able, to follow through.
“Will they enforce this, or is this just another gesture to be used to secure something they want?” said Robin Cleveland, vice chair of the congressional U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which monitors the national security impact of bilateral trade and economic ties. Unless resolved in a new round of negotiations, the mounting tensions over trade could derail China’s cooperation on fentanyl.
Chinese President Xi Jinping promised Trump at a summit in Argentina in December that Beijing would crack down on flows of all fentanyl-related substances. The regulatory change is supposed to shut down the operations of illicit producers and traffickers who advertise and sell fentanyl products on video websites including Google’s YouTube and Vimeo, and on the Dark Web.
The ruling Communist Party’s newspaper, the China Daily, covered the plans to expand the controlled substances list last week under the headline, “China, U.S. join hands to fight fentanyl.”“Whether the Chinese ... actually deliver on it from an enforcement standpoint remains to be seen,” Barr testified at a House of Representatives budget hearing in April.In 2017, the bulk of fentanyl seizures by U.S.
Chinese Customs enforcement appears to be even weaker. Officials stopped fewer than a half dozen fentanyl-related shipments in 2016-2017 before they could be shipped out of China, according to Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, a co-chair of the U.S. Senate’s Caucus on International Narcotics Control.
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