USA Blacklisted China As Drug Producer

The USA continues to attack China, which, along with 23 other countries of the world, this time was included in the Washington-compiled “black list” of drug producers and exporters.
US President Joe Biden directly accused China of producing and transiting drugs. Thus, as of September 2023, the American “black list” includes such countries as Afghanistan, the Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Burma, Venezuela, Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, India, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Laos, Mexico, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, El Salvador, Ecuador, and Jamaica.
The White House also accused Venezuela and Bolivia of “failing to meet their obligations to combat the production and distribution of narcotics.”
In order to include China in the blacklist, the USA amended its legislation to now allow the “addition of origin countries for chemicals” used to produce drugs. This was done with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid believed to be “responsible” for the majority of more than 109,000 drug overdose deaths reported in the USA last year.
In a note accompanying the publication of the updated list, President Biden “urged China and other chemical supply countries to strengthen supply chains” and “prevent leaks.”
According to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), “the majority of precursor chemicals come from China and end up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels.” The reason for China’s inclusion in the list also “was a combination of geographic, commercial, and economic factors that allow the transit or production of drugs even if the (Chinese) government takes measures to control them.”
China strongly condemned the move by the USA, calling the Joe Biden administration’s decision to include the country in the list of drug producers and exporters “arbitrary and completely unfounded.”
Beijing recalls that back in 2018, China assumed a number of important international commitments to control trade of fentanyl and other precursor substances. Five years ago, as part of agreements reached with the administration of then US President Donald Trump, China included all fentanyl-related substances on its list of super-controlled substances.
Claims that “most precursor chemicals come from China and end up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels” are extremely irresponsible and completely false. “So far, China has not detected any precursor chemicals allegedly smuggled into Mexico, nor has it received any notification from Mexican authorities that such substances have been seized from China,” said a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington DC.