China Deflects Blame for Opioid Crisis as Trump Visit Nears
ews conference to announce the hunt for these fugitives." China has no extradition treaty with the United States, and Mr. Wei said a decision on extraditing the two men would be dependent on evidence
that the Americans could provide or the Chinese could unearth. that China regrets that the U.S. chose to unilaterally hold a n
Mr. Wei criticized the Department of Justice’s public announcement last month of indictments against two "major Chinese drug traffickers — a case
that both Beijing and Washington were working on." Last week the department highlighted the indictments against Yan Xiaobing and Jian Zhang, who are living in China, as a sign that the United States was making its fight against opioids a global one.
Saying that fentanyl abuse does not exist in China, Mr. Wei said the authorities had nonetheless responded forcefully to the crisis
in the United States by banning more fentanyl analogues than those on a United Nations drug body’s list of controlled substances.
Mr. Trump has pointed to China as the drug’s main source, saying it is "either shipped into the United States or smuggled across
the southern border by drug traffickers." Last year in the United States, about 64,000 people died of drug overdoses.
U.S.-China Economic said that China is the main supplier of fentanyl to the United States, Mexico, and Canada,
Drug Enforcement Administration said that Once China controls a substance, it has a dramatic effect on the United States in terms of lives saved,