Anyone who thinks the Chinese give a s**t about US fentanyl deaths any more than some scumbag Mexican drug lord is delusional.
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I believe it is a form of warfare on the part of the Chinese, and POTUS hinted to that in one of his public addresses regarding drugs. Trump said, “It’s almost like warfare.” I think that was as direct as he wanted to be. A raid (Nebraska) seized enough Fentanyl to kill 26 million people last May (one or two mg is fatal).
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44244688
And in Pickering, Canada, located on the waterfront across Lake Ontario from New York, carfentanyl
was seized in a quantity capable of killing over a billion people. Doubt it was intended for the Canadians.
“Carfentanil is 100 times more potent than fentanyl. According to the AG of New Jersey, 45 kilograms of fentanyl is enough to kill 18 million people. A similar amount of carfentanil, at 100 times the potency of fentanyl, is enough to kill 100 times that number – which is somewhat less than 1.8 billion people, assuming it is of the same purity. And even if it is of a lesser purity, it is still enough to kill tens of millions of people. “
The man arrested in possession of this drug also had 33 guns and magazines for them.
War by any other name is still war. China has a Swine Plague problem and I think they want the US to have that problem too.
Note; how this pork would *not* have been harmful to people eating it. It would instead be quite harmful to pig populations. In other words, the domestic pig industry.
Now I do not know whether the Chinese are particularly discerning whether they dump people-toxic crap on us or industry-toxic crap on us. I think it would be horrifically rotten and rapidly attributable for a number of people to die or get seriously ill upon eating Chinese pork; but if said pork was instead a sub-rosa threat to a domestic industry, that would seem a far more strategic exercise.
We have a political class in Wash DC 85% of which the Clinton model; eg; selling out US interests for money; that of being immune or ideally immune from prosecution for espionage; even if what is being transferred are missile guidance secrets etc; is an irresistable attraction.
And it doesn’t have to be defense related. Did you know the latest stink in China-US IP theft was a process developed by Coca-Cola regarding the inside coating of soda cans?
They steal absolutely everything they can.
War by any other name is still war. China has a Swine Plague problem and I think they want the US to have that problem too.
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They almost certainly do want us to be so plagued. China is NOT our friend. They want to weaken us by all means possible.