The Chinese are killing us by the thousands with fentanyl. Why sign a trade deal when you’re in an opium war?
Where there is a black market, criminals (of any nationality) will step in to fill the void.
If you want someone to blame, I'd suggest looking a lot closer to home: pharmaceutical companies made false claims about the addictiveness of their opioid drugs, as well as about the duration of effect of their extended release variants; many US doctors and dentists were prescribing large quantities of opioids where paracetamol/ibuprofen would have been more suitable; and of course there is decades of futile and harmful US drug policy.
Fentanyl is found in lethal quantities in all kinds of street drugs. Not just heroin but in pills labelled “Xanax” and in cocaine powder.
We would respond very differently to these casualty numbers in a shooting war with China. Maybe that is why China is killing us with fentanyl.
I draw the line today with 7,000 deaths/yr in Canada and 40,000 deaths/yr in America. What are your numbers?
> Our intelligence agencies won’t rule out China is doing this to weaken us
Source please.
TBH your comment sounds a lot like the anti-Chinese propoganda that the US government has been spouting since China became the boogeyman de jour.
You have only given a half-pinion because we are still waiting for a number. How many deaths are acceptable?
China makes fake pills from fentanyl: https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2016/07/22/dea-report-cou...
Fentanyl is a national security threat: https://m.theepochtimes.com/china-is-deliberately-using-fent...
Carfentanyl is a WMD: https://globalnews.ca/news/3108514/lethal-carfentanil-could-...
I believe Chinese food restaurants are more about spreading a positive message by China. Of course some people overeat at these restaurants but that is probably not the main point.