Posted on 05/03/2025 1:14:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Chinese officials have long used their willingness to cooperate to stem the flow of fentanyl to the United States as leverage in talks over broader disputes.
When Donald J. Trump was first in the White House trying to strike a trade deal with China, Beijing tried to curry favor with the American president by banning all variants of the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl.
Now, as China and the United States are deadlocked in a bitter trade war that has roiled the world, offering to do more to further stem the flow of fentanyl and the chemicals used to make it could once again be an option for China.
Beijing has for years used cooperation on fentanyl as leverage in its broader relationship with the United States. The move to ban all variants in 2019 came after President Trump accused China of not doing enough to stop the flow of the drug into the United States, and as the issue of fentanyl became increasingly tangled in a broader trade dispute.
China also agreed at that time to participate in joint law enforcement crackdowns on fentanyl with the United States. The moves led Mr. Trump to praise the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, for making “a wonderful humanitarian gesture.”
With the new Trump administration, China has faced even greater pressure to do more to crack down on the export of chemical precursors used to make fentanyl. The administration cited fentanyl as the reason for twice imposing additional tariffs of 10 percent on China in February and March. The Trump administration also closed a loophole on Friday that it said allowed small quantities of the chemical precursors to be shipped to the United States undetected.
Mr. Trump, who asserts that China has cheated on trade with the United States for decades,...
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Smells like an admission of guilt.
So a CCP plant at the Slimes named Joy Dong wrote this bizarre piece which verifies her CCP is dumping Fent here on purpose .
The type of government in Russia, China, North Korea is essentially what you’d have if the Mafia ran the country. All those governments view your stuff as their stuff they just haven’t taken yet. The intelligence services and organized crime are often the same people. In China, the people at the top can agree to anything, but powerful people below them are not governed by the top leadership. If what the Chinese call “the little princes” are making their income off fentanyl, then they will keep doing so because they and their actions benefit the people at the top. Likewise, the CCP can’t stop the theft of intellectual property as this is a huge source of income. Agreeing to be governed by laws is the path to overthrowing the CCP, or Putin, or Kim. It not only won’t happen, but it also can’t happen.
Pretty bizarre that we would want any trade with a country that dumps drugs into our country, sends covid into the world, steal ip and other secrets, etc etc.
Trump has an almost unlimited authority in trade determinations.
Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 grants the U.S. President the authority to investigate and adjust imports based on a determination that they threaten national security. This includes imposing tariffs or other trade restrictions. The process begins with an investigation by the Department of Commerce, followed by a report to the President, who then decides whether to take action. So if China wishes to try to use force to dictate trade and control the US commerce, Trump can slam them in many different ways.
Sections 122, 201, and 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 provide the President with authority to take various actions to address trade-related issues. Section 122 allows for temporary tariffs to address balance-of-payments deficits. Section 201 authorizes tariffs when a surge in imports causes or threatens serious injury to a US industry. Section 301 allows for retaliation against countries engaging in unfair trade practices.
And Section 338 is a Great Depression-era provision that gives the President unilateral authority to impose up to 50 percent tariffs in response to “discriminatory behavior” by U.S. trading partners.
The liberals have not been exactly up front with the foreign trade policies nor the powers to control them. There are rules.
wy69
Smells like horse $hit to me. If anyone believes China, then they likely would have believed Hitler too when he said he wasn't going to invade other countries, and then turned around and invaded them. China lies all the time, just like the RAT party.
Smells like horse $hit to me.
So you're saying China is lying when it admits to being the source of the fentanyl plague?
It’s even more bizarre to think trade with China could suddenly stop.
I hate the ChiComms with a passion, but I think in their mind Fentanyl is justifed payback to what the West did to China with opium.
You think I said that in my comment?
I'm saying that I wouldn't believe China when they say they would reduce the shipment of fentanyl in exchange for trade agreements. I didn't think I had to be so explicit on the issue.
The flow of fentanyl from China will obviously be much less as fewer container vessels from China enter US. The NYT and CCP have no WH intel or insight as to what Trump will do. No real cards to play.
Therefore, they will be sure it remains a long-term bargaining chip which they will never give up.
Maybe it’s not the bargaining chip that it once was now that the border is not wide open. How about opening your markets to US goods, or better yet, go fly a kite.
I apologize. From you wording I thought you were accusing me of believing anything the Butchers of Beijing say.
Back to Mexican black tar heroin, I guess.
~hunter biden
No need to apologize. Maybe I didn''t convey it the way it should have been. I know that a level-headed Freeper as yourself would never take Beijing seriously.
What isn’t bizarre is the possibility that PDJT intends to do unto China as Reagan/Bush did unto the Soviet Union.
We win. They lose.
Yeah.
It’s also Charlie Brown kicking the football.
The chicoms will always make an agreement to clamp down on fentanyl and get US concessions in exchange, but they do not do what they say.
You conveyed it the right way.
You speak truthfully.
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