White House is actively trying to blame Beijing for the fentanyl crisis in the USA.

Thus, the U.S. Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions against 28 legal entities and individuals from China for production and distribution of opioids. It has been officially stated that this measure is in line with the administration’s efforts to suppress the illegal supply of Chinese precursors to the USA. The restrictions included the heads of ‘drug syndicates’ in China and a number of pharmaceutical companies specializing in the export of medical chemical products to the USA and Mexico. There has been no clear reaction from Beijing yet. Apparently, Chinese leadership remains silent again.

On top of that, the U.S. Department of Justice launched criminal investigations against those on the ‘black list’. All of them are operating in China except for two companies and one civilian person located in Canada. U.S. attorney general Merrick B. Garland rather pompously stated that the Justice Department will do everything possible to ensure that the accused persons appear before the U.S. court.

It should be noted that the White House positions the fight against drug trafficking as one of the spheres of potential cooperation with China. Nonetheless, the dialogue in this concern is going on stickily and without visible progress. Beijing is vaguely trying in some way to beat off Washington’s attempts to accuse the Chinese authorities of allegedly insufficient control over the illegal production of synthetic drugs. Some Chinese politicians state that Washington should for the start tighten the requirements regarding the use of psychotropic drugs in the USA. Frankly speaking, this reaction sounds rather measured and substanceless.

In his statement, attorney general Garland directly indicated that companies from China - as the main suppliers of fentanyl - are ‘destroying the American nation’. Here we can see another public attack of Washington against China. At the same time, the number of spheres in which Americans ‘turn the screw’ on China gradually expands. In addition to military-economic areas, it is now the time for a fight against drug trafficking. Trying to take refuge in silence, China is once again demonstrating its lack of backbones.