Credit to Matt Turpin

I don’t think people in DC understand the nature of our relationship with Beijing.

“Beijing’s role in fueling the fentanyl crisis in the United States, a scourge that has cost the lives of 500,000 Americans over the last decade and is the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 44”

“the Chinese Communist Party has provided tax rebates and other subsidies to companies that manufacture and export the precursors to create fentanyl”

“No other country besides the PRC has the pharmaceutical or chemical industrial base to produce these precursors… so if Beijing prevented these exports, the raw materials to make fentanyl would dry up. The Chinese Communist Party has pursued the opposite approach and incentivized the production and export of these precursors.”

Read here: https://t.co/699ZUR9o4w