Biden to lift sanctions on Chinese human rights abuser in return for Xi’s latest pledge to fight fentanyl: report

President Joe Biden and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping are expected to seal an agreement under which China will strengthen measures against drug trafficking in exchange for the US lifting sanctions on a Chinese government ministry , Bloomberg reported Monday.

Sources familiar with the situation he said Bloomberg that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) will crack down on Chinese companies making chemical precursors for fentanyl in exchange for the US lifting sanctions on the Ministry of Public Security’s Institute of Forensic Sciences, which the Commerce Department added on the Entity List in 2020 for “engaging in human rights violations and abuses” in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Biden and Xi are pissed off meet for the first time in a year on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco on November 15.

“We expect to see some progress on this issue this coming week,” National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Monday. seconds in the New York Post. “This could open the door to greater cooperation on other issues where we’re not just managing things, but actually delivering tangible results.”

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 80-100 times stronger than morphine, seconds to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and accounted for nearly 70% of the more than 110,000 overdose deaths in the US in 2022.

Should a deal materialize, it will be at least the third time China has pledged to get tough on fentanyl. In 2016China agreed to step up anti-narcotics operations and Xi again agreed to launch a crackdown 2018.

However, China’s culpability in the fentanyl trade has persisted despite Xi’s assurances.

China and Mexico are “the primary source countries for fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances traded directly into the United States.” seconds to a 2020 DEA intelligence report. “China remains the primary source of fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances trafficked through the international mail and express delivery operations environment, as well as the source of all fentanyl-related substances marketed in the United States.”

Although China finally scheduled fentanyl and related substances in 2019, the Chinese Embassy in the U.S. minimized the role of the PRC in the manufacture of fentanyl.

“On May 1, 2019, the Chinese government took the world lead in officially scheduling fentanyl substances as a class, even though there was no large-scale abuse or prominent dangers in the country,” states the Chinese Embassy website.

In December 2021, the State Department announced rewards “of up to $5 million for information” related to Zheng Guohua i Zheng Fujing for their alleged roles in operating a “worldwide online chemical distribution business that uses numerous shell companies to manufacture and distribute hundreds of illicit controlled substances, including fentanyl analogs.”

More recently, a june i Octoberthe Department of Justice unveiled indictments against several Chinese chemical companies for alleged crimes related to the manufacture and distribution of fentanyl-related chemicals.

The White House and the Chinese Embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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