“US charges mainland firms over fentanyl chemical supply” | SCMP

China would do so much better for its global soft power — which it claims to care about — and for humanity, if it cooperated with the US on anti-fentanyl measures. It should say, “yes we’ll help you to shut down fentanyl precursor chemicals and pill-making machinery”. Instead it’s going with the “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” excuse. “Our pill-making machines don’t kill people; people taking the pills kill people”. Shame. 

Every year, over 100,000 Americans die of a fentanyl overdose. That’s 12 every hour. One every five minutes. It’s a super fast-acting, super cheap drug. China does not deny supplying fentanyl precursor chemicals (which we all learned about for meth in “Breaking Bad”!), and the packaging machinery to Mexico which puts it all together. China just denies any responsibility for what happens after. All for the sake of protecting a couple of its own sleazy companies. Shame.

On this issue I think the US is right. And China is wrong. The US has to attack the Mexican cartels, who do the final assembly and distribution, as well as China which supplies all the makings. 

China should cooperate. Help its own moral stance and help humanity. Otherwise it’s: shame on you, China, shame on you CCP.