Do more to cut demand for fentanyl, China tells United States

  • Chinese foreign ministry says that as the world’s biggest consumer of the opioid, the US should stop trying to pin the drug problem on others

The United States consumes 80 per cent of the world’s opioids, according to China’s foreign ministry. Photo: Reuters

The US government can do more to reduce demand for fentanyl and should stop shifting the blame onto others, China said on Monday, in another riposte to Trump administration criticism that China is not helping resolve the drug problem.

US officials say China is the main source of illicit fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances that are trafficked into the United States, much of it through international mail. China denies that most of the illicit fentanyl entering the US originates in China.

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