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Blinken: Some Chinese Firms Ship Fentanyl Precursors to Cartels by Accident — China Stopped Helping, But ‘It’s Not About Pointing Fingers’
breitbart ^ | 06/20/23 | Ian Hanchet

Posted on 06/20/2023 7:00:05 AM PDT by chief lee runamok

"..producing these precursors in China and then, in some cases, inadvertently sending it to the wrong people in Mexico or other places.."

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: China; Miscellaneous; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: appeasement; blinken; china; fentanyl
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To: chief lee runamok

Over and over and over and over. Did the Mexican receivers pay for the shipments by accident, too?


41 posted on 06/20/2023 7:49:32 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: G Larry

Blinken is paying obeisance to the Emperor. Vassal leaders traditionally travel to Peking to pay homage to the Emperor upon accession to their own thrones and send gifts by way of important ministers tp kowtow and express allegiance periodically throughout their times in power.


42 posted on 06/20/2023 7:50:41 AM PDT by arthurus ( Covefe *+*)
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To: ping jockey
Biden administration is OWNED by Xi and the Chicoms. The second The Biden Crime Family took the first million from Chicoms they had them ensnared. Nobody wanted Biden to be POTUS more than Xi did which begs the question: “ were the digital traces in the Dominion voting machine scam that tracked back to Chineses URL’s more than just tracking the vote? Were they in fact stealing the election?”

🤔

43 posted on 06/20/2023 8:05:03 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America)
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To: chief lee runamok

No, evil and lying all in one package. It’s immpossible to be that stupid and naive and still respirate.


44 posted on 06/20/2023 8:10:46 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: chief lee runamok

Mike Pompeo had this guy right from the start. Said Blinken doesn’t have what it takes to be a secretary, he is basically a career staffer. Assistant whatever, iow.


45 posted on 06/20/2023 8:32:01 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: chief lee runamok
Binken. Again. Being SoS - and indeed having any cabinet position - nowadays requires only one of three prerequisites, and he has two of them. He's untouchable.

The cabal doesn't even bother to try being believable anymore. We are just sheep, reported to by sheep who have cut deals with wolves.

46 posted on 06/20/2023 9:09:11 AM PDT by niteowl77
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To: chief lee runamok

It is ludicrous to state that China exported chemical precursors of Fentymyl and Methamphetamine to Mexican cartels by accident. That is a blatant lie.

To believe that you would have to also believe that the large laboratories built and used for the final production of these drugs were also built by accident or fortuitous chance.


47 posted on 06/20/2023 10:54:21 AM PDT by wildbill (The older I get, the less the term 'life in prison" scares me)
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To: realcleanguy

Blinken basically rolled over and peed himself just like a submissive cur.


48 posted on 06/20/2023 12:43:53 PM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: chief lee runamok

If it wasn’t such a traitorous comment, it would be hilarious.


49 posted on 06/20/2023 12:53:50 PM PDT by NeverTyranny
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Straight up bs. The Carfentanil Epidemic of 2015-2016 had no mojado connections, too hard to manufacture and too powerful to be mule'd.

PLA directed the importation of refined Carfentanil through Long Beach and managed to get quite a bit into the US through air service as well. It killed nearly every junkie it touched.

This was the first apex of the reverse 21st-Century Opium War of China against the United States.

These godless confucians are out for revenge, goddamn when are you people going to wake up out of your slumber?

50 posted on 06/20/2023 1:12:44 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: lewislynn

The last paragraph of the article explains a lot:

“ Blinked responded, ‘So, all I can tell you is this: We’ve seen cooperation from them in the past and that’s made a difference. That halted, more or less, over the last few years. They have issues that they’ve raised to try to explain why they’re not doing as much as they can.’ ”

The reporter appears to have missed the two key follow-up questions:

1. Why did the Chinese stop cooperating?
2. What “issues” are preventing improvements in cooperation now?

A couple of years ago, I had to start giving my PII (personally identifiable information) and signature whenever I bought over-the-counter allergy medication because it contained pseudoephedrine. The makers of crack were using the tablets to obtain the precursor chemicals needed to make the drug. So they were buying it in huge quantities on the open market.

As is usually the case, the regulators then decided everybody now needed to supply their information regardless of the quantity purchased. Then they stopped asking for PII and signatures a year or so later. Why? Because the drug dealers’ chemists had figured out how to make crack using basic chemicals and buying massive quantities of allergy medicine containing pseudoephedrine was no longer necessary.

Isn’t Blinken’s description of the Chinese behavior similar? The cooperation was a matter of shifting from permitting drug manufacturers in China supplying fentanyl tablets/capsules directly to permitting chemical manufacturers in China to supply the precursors. Let’s not give them too much credit. The Chinese cooperated in the past, because it got them off of the skyline as a supplier of the finished product, fentanyl. That was good PR. Still, they are Chinese …

Now an extra step has been added to manufacturing the illegal drug. The Chinese are making the chemists in Mexico use the precursors to make the drug. Then the cartels are sending the product into the US for packaging. There are still huge, huge amounts of fentanyl being smuggled into the United States.

The cooperation we are seeking from the Chinese is for them to stop enabling the drug cartels to poison Americans. This shouldn’t require complex negotiations or resolving “issues“ as it is a moral evil to enable drug smugglers in any way. The PRC has severe punishments for illegal drug trafficking inside China. But they seem to have “issues” when it comes to other countries, especially the United States.

SoS Blinken somehow cannot talk about these issues. Why? Mentioning them is bad PR for the criminal political party running the PRC. Sort of like why Resident Brandon …er, POTUS46 is downplaying the recent PRC spy balloon incident.

Just a case of corrupt, characterless Americans making nice with corrupt, characterless Chinese.


51 posted on 06/20/2023 1:46:56 PM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
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To: Captain Rhino

Perhaps some good use can be made of the fentanyl.


52 posted on 06/20/2023 2:00:31 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: Chickensoup

At the absolutely huge quantities being routinely interdicted (with even more getting in undetected), the fentynal “good use” train has long since left the station.

Their intentions (both the Chinese and the cartels) are entirely evil. The only difference between the two is that the Chinese intention is malignant while the other is mainly indifferent.


53 posted on 06/20/2023 2:56:59 PM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
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To: Noumenon

No business in Red China does anything with dangerous drugs/components without Party permission. Period!


54 posted on 06/20/2023 8:26:47 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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