Posted on 01/10/2023 8:13:21 PM PST by FarCenter
Violence in Mexico shows depth and danger of deadly trade; China’s ending of counter-narcotics cooperation exposes its hidden hand
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Fentanyl is the latest booming drug scourge. For several years, China has shipped by sea already-manufactured fentanyl to Mexico and also the ingredients used to make it.
As early as 2015, the US Congress identified China as the primary source of fentanyl. For Sinaloa producers, the Chinese provided “ingredients to secret labs in Mexico run by drug cartels,” which “then smuggle pounds of fentanyl over the Southwest border,” according to a 2015 Congressional report
In 2019 – under US pressure – China officially cracked down on the export of fentanyl pills that its factories prepared. However, Chinese drug makers in the country’s vast pharmaceutical industry adapted. They increased exports of so-called precursors needed to produce the finished fentanyl product. Sinaloans became eager students of fentanyl manufacturing.
China shrugged off complaints from Washington about precursor traffic, according to Geopolitical Monitor, a Canadian intelligence website. The RAND Corporation think tank said that “China has some 5,000 pharmaceutical manufacturers, but regulators scrutinize a small share of companies.”
Beijing also declined US requests that it cooperate by detaining drug dealers and exchanging information. Unrelated disputes between China and the US have crippled drug control cooperation between them.
First, Washington placed sanctions on a Chinese branch of the Ministry of Public Security because it was “implicated in human rights violations and abuses” of the Muslim Uighur minority in northwest China’s Xinjiang province.
In response, Beijing ended narcotics cooperation in several cities on the grounds that sanctions “seriously affected China’s examination and identification of fentanyl substances” and “greatly affected China’s goodwill to help the US in fighting drugs.”
Last fall, China’s leaders responded with anger to the visit to Taiwan by Nancy Pelosi, who was Biden’s Democratic Party leader of the US legislative House of Representatives. China, which considers Taiwan a renegade province, ended “counter-narcotics cooperation” along with coordination or cooperation in military affairs, illegal immigration, legal matter, transnational crime and climate change in response.
Mexico’s longstanding inability to control illicit drug production combined with America’s chronic drug appetite make joint anti-narcotics efforts a saga of chronic failure. China’s enthusiastic contribution to the scene insures continued frustration – and adds to the ever-expanding list of tensions with the United States.
1) Communist China has deliberately injected fentanyl and other narcotics into the United States as an act of sabotage to undermine, kill and cause law enforcement to expend time and money in fighting the crimes connected to drug dealing.
2) Why aren’t our people doing things like that to the Chinese? We’re good little boys and girls? We’re better than that? Our religious affiliations and church attendance have gone drastically down, so what is the alleged “moral problem?”
Just musing.
More war on drugs BS.
As universal health care is to the Dems, so is this war on drugs BS to Republicans.
They all like to tell us all they did by spending the tax payers money, just where they waste it changes.
You probably forgot opium wars. Were any reparations ever paid?
The focus is always on the failed policy of persuading/assisting other countries in stopping the export of drugs to the United States rather than on the alternative of securing the border and preventing the import into the United States.
Good catch. A moment in history.
Astor, Forbes, and FDR’s granddad earned their fortunes by putting China on heroin.
Much ado about nothing. FR’s LiberTARDian trash tell us all is well.
Love it but once again it’s about long ago times.
Thanks for the information, though.
It was from the first half of US history, but the last 10% of Chinese history.
Thanks. Hadn’t heard of it but it is my kind of book.
Looked up synopsis in Goodreads. US vs. Communists in biolgical warfare oneupsmanship.
As a kid in junior high I did one class presentation about upcoming nuclear war possibilities with poster board illustrations and charts and detailed descriptions of the destruction of human life.
Also did a book report on Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald (7th underground level as Americans unleased nuclear war, making re-emergence to the surface impossible.
And I used to like the movies with “no one left alive on Earth.” Used to imagine the places I went if no people wre there. Obviously I would want medical and pharmaceutical help. Radio right winger Earl Nightingale said we need people ahead of us in the places we travel so they built roads, grew and harvested foods and were ready to serve our many needs when we arrived there. Condescending and terrific, I thought.
One I remember was The World, the Flesh and the Devil with Harry Belafonte in “a post-apocalyptic world with very few human survivors.”
I clearly remember the funny unintentional film error in which the supposedly empty NYC had a bridge in the distance
with the usual daily traffic jam on it moving along. Funny. Today they would blur it out or cgi the bridge as empty.
And was sad Burgess Meredith’s character broke his only glasses on the Twilight Zone and couldn’t enjoy his reading time now that the annoying human race was gone.
Probably set me up to be the poster I am today. Fighting misanthropy. Tip: people are much worse today than they were in the 1950s and 60s.
Did you ever watch 28 days later? it had a great bridge scene.
not much CGI, instead a plot on a budget of about £5 million
Execute drug dealers. Promptly. Publicly.
Thanks. Never heard of it.
It cost little as you said but “grossed more than $82.7 million worldwide” before becoming popular again due to Covid.
I’m becoming more and more educated today (three people told me of “almost no one left alive on Earth” tales.)
Plot of 28 Days with people everywhere going into anger and rages against others after a pandemic is unbelievable, of course.😁
Except for real life since 2020.
Thank you. Thoughtful deed.
Some from India finds its way here too
Problem aside from obvious is IQ level of retailers
Cartels have taken to dyeing it pink so users if paying attention see the cut in whatever retailers and pill pressers put it in
Say what you will but the guys running Sinaloa like Zambada ain’t dumb nor is Mecho at New Gen
At some point, the Sinaloa Cartel will realize a great way to invest their drug profits is by buying up American real estate in Demonrat-run shitholes, then running the Demonrats out. The potential profits of that strategy would far exceed anything that could be made in any stock market.
Like guns, drugs are inanimate objects. You can't blame recreational drugs for doing what they are designed to do.
I’m very libertarian except when it comes to national defense.
Give people all the drugs they want. I survived that.
The ones that don’t would have voted for Democrats. No loss to lose Democrats.
There is this thing called “natural selection”.
Before you “Flame”, me I lost a very dear cousin to the Seattle Heroin addict life style. I busted my butt helping her. But the lifestyle caught up to her.
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