China announced restrictions on the painkiller fentanyl after the U.S. blamed Chinese imports for fueling the opioid crisis that has claimed thousands of lives via scmp_news
China on Monday announced tightened curbs on the painkiller fentanyl after the U.S. blamed Chinese imports for fueling the opioid crisis that has claimed thousands of lives.The move was announced ahead of the latest round of talks aimed at ending the trade war between the two sides, and fulfills a promise Chinese President Xi Jinping made to President Donald Trump when they last met in Argentina in early December.
A joint press conference announcing the measures, made by the Ministry of Public Security, the National Health Commission and the National Medical Products Administration, listed the chemical structure of fentanyl for the first time. Liu Yuejin, deputy director of China’s National Narcotics Control Commission, said: “The U.S. is concerned about all variants [of fentanyl], and it’s all been resolved.”
Liu also said: “China has a strict controls on fentanyl, there has never been a problem from fentanyl produced legally in China … the illegal cases we cracked in joint operations with U.S. authorities were all results of the lawbreakers ganging up with overseas crime groups.”
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