Trump Hails Xi Pledge to Crack Down on Fentanyl Flow Into U.S.
- China vows to step up fight against deadly synthetic opioid
- Fentanyl pledge emerges from Trump-Xi dinner at G-20 summit
An example of the amount of fentanyl that can be deadly shown after a news conference at DEA headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.
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President Donald Trump and his advisers are hailing what they called a major promise from Chinese President Xi Jinping to crack down on fentanyl, a synthetic opioid blamed for thousands of overdose deaths in the U.S.
The pledge to enhance cooperation with the U.S. to fight illegal drugs including fentanyl and related substances emerged from a highly anticipated dinner between Trump and Xi on Saturday in Buenos Aires that yielded a truce in the trade war between the two countries.